Evolving friendships...

Okay, travel back 40, 50 years ago, and remember some of your very best friends there. That was then, that was there. You lived close to each other, amidst the same culture, the same joys and sorrows.

Now, rewind forward to this day. Time has done its eroding work, life-choices and careers have taking you and your friends thousands of miles apart, personal experiences have also been vastly different.

The mutual appreciation is still there, but it's become much harder to relate, to understand each other. Each partner has missed enough “beats” to make the whole story more sketchy and a bit harder to comprehend and follow. Each one tries his or her best, but sometime, the split appears and seems much harder to leap upon.

Friendships, just like flowers need constant attention and even when they get it, they always remain a fragile and tenuous reality. Casual friendships don't like separation, sporadic contacts and diverging experiences.

Only exceptional friendships can take it all in stride, survive and sometime strive. But who ever said that there was that much room for so many exceptional friendships. Aren't we supposed to count them with only a few fingers of one hand?