new beginnings.....

You know about the pollination process of flowers right?I've always found it amazing, how all these pollen grains, that are all bunched up together for a very long time, suddenly find themselves blown away by the wind in summertime. This wind separates them, perhaps forever, and each grain will find its own destiny. Some will perish by the wayside, a few will reach where they intended to, and create sweet fruit from their labour, thus fulfilling their purpose in this great big world of ours.

Why the weird Bio lesson? Because you see, we people are like those grains of pollen. From being kids, we move about as a bunch, laughing, sharing, talking our way through the early years, and then, it's as if the whole world opens up and is ours for the taking, if we choose to take it. Suddenly we find that this anther, which contained all of us, the whole bunched up and crowded lot, is beginning to open, and slowly but surely, all of us grains are going to be tipped out into the big, wide world by a gust of wind. Where this wind will take us, we have no idea. But the path is to be charted by us alone.

Today, that anther began to open up for me.One of my closest friends will be boarding a flight to Bremen in Germany on Sunday. I just spent my last evening with her, and as we were talking, laughing, standing in queue, eating, etc. etc., I couldn't help but remember the time when we used to stay waiting after class till both sets of parents arrived to pick us both up. The chats we had during those cold windy mornings when either one of us seemed to be stranded if the other left. The times we had in Damle Ma'am class. S.S.'s little joke on R.A.B and her laughing her a** off at me. Standing up for me even when she couldn't possibly have. Turning on me when I defended her against a guy when I knew she was in the wrong anyway. Talking on the phone for hours together. Being tense together the days before the scholarship result, the board exam result. Talking about first crushes, jerky guys, cute guys, teasing guys, irritating guys, and just guys in general. Its going to be strange without you here, P.

Also, suddenly, the fact that this is MY last year sunk in. Last year, last chance I guess. Gotta make the most of it....