BEST FRIEND -- the word brings memories of time when I was a little kid; I was in maybe 3rd grade and I had this amazing friend. We did everything together, except lunch and dinner.......meeting up at school bus-stop, sitting at same bench in school, playing together etc etc.....and after 6th grade all I remember having are good friends....

I moved to a city in that grade so that's why my defining moment is 6th grade. Yes, we (my good friends and I) met in bus, we sat together and called each other up as soon as we reached home. We would meet in the evenings and essentially all was same. But I could never have another best friend. I still wrote letters to my best friend and till date we meet up every year. We both have changed so much.....and yet we are the same. Still, couple of my good friends from school are still my good friends.

The worst phase was at college......being part of huge friend group, entering adulthood together, going to first party, staying in hostel, bunking classes etc should have forged stronger bonds......but these turned out to be superficial relationships and ended soon. Thereafter, at every place of my stay I have formed very good friendships and some of them have lasted, some of them will last......but all these friendships change with time, they take on new dimensions and new meanings....but what doesn't change is my relationship with my BEST FRIEND. I am glad to have known that sort of friendship....