Prasanna and I used to hang around most of the time, and we were so close. We did everything together, going to toilet, sitting in same bench, telling rhymes, I still remember those days, they are just bright and clear in my mind. He used to share my food, but Prasanna’s mother who was a Tamil teacher on the same school didn’t like him sharing my food (yeah it’s the regular Brahmin and non-Brahmin stuff) but still I was a vegetarian then.
I remember once, we were sitting in the back bench in a play hour, it was heavily raining and no teacher was there in class. A girl was sleeping on the front bench lying down on the writing desk. And we had a deal,. 1st I went to the front bench pinched the sleeping girl in her hand and came back,. She woke up and turned around and slept, next he went and pinched her, it was again and again. Next day the girl came with her elder brother and he was warning both of us. Believe me it happened in my LKG, lol, I still remember the scene in my mind clearly.
(Here is a pic for you to give you a clear picture to show how we were fooling around, two boys in the pic is me and Prasanna,. and one lying on the bench describes the little girl)
I and Prasanna were best kinder garden pals., until a terrible thing happened in my life. While we was studying 2nd standard my dad got promotion with transfer. And since my dad has to work in another city, he want me and my mom to live in our granny’s home in a different place (Thiruvotriuor).
So I was small then, and I had to say good bye to him, and since I was young I didn’t had any idea of getting his contact details or address. In those days only some people had phones.
I left him that day, and haven’t seen him from then, but I always used to remember him. Had this guilt of not keeping in touch with my best friend. I always wanted to go to Saidapet and find him again, but I made my move only after completing my diploma,. I went to the school that I studied (Little flower Mat Hr.) and asked about him and his mom who was working there. But they said they don’t have his address and his mom left the school it seems.
Later after I joined SSN college, I became a member in Orkut and found that school’s community in Orkut, I joined the community and sent a mail to all members in the community about what happened. And amazingly I got reply from 2 persons stating that they know him and they will find his contact and inform me. So I was waiting for a long time. Then finally one day I received a message which said “Hai, I am Prasanna, what you want, who are you?”
I was hurt so badly, after all I thought he would atleast remember me. But he told me that he don’t remember anything. He even did not accept my friend request in the beginning and even didn’t give his phone number. Later he clarified with his mom about me and gave his phone number. Thank God atleast his mom remembered me. But now we are just stranger, of course he is in my friend list but he wont talk to me and neither do I,. Don’t search for him in my orkut account,. He is in the friend list of my old orkut account.
This is the sad story of mine about my old pal and orkut,. I still remember the days we tasted the eraser and pencil leads,. But today things are way different. I guess that’s life, Moving on is the major thing that always we do in life.
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