Life-Or-Dilemma

Nostalgic Friends...... The first Sunday of every August is Friendship Day. This year it's August 1.     Nine years ago, on a wet monsoon day, the three of us stood outside Ernakulam's Sridhar Movie Theatre. This movie hall have been an institution for cinema buffs for generations. My two friends and I were no exceptions. It was the first day first show of Dil Chahta Hai , a story about three friends unsure about where life would take them. Three hours later, when we came out of the hall none of us spoke for the longest time. I would like to believe that the same thought was running through our heads: Where would we be ten years later? None of us spoke of it though. Guys never bonded that way then and I think they don't even now. The following year, Arun changed colleges and I chose a subject that Gerin had no inclination for.  We rarely shared the same classroom and the scythe of time took its toll. Before we knew it, we bega...