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Time for some Dusting

Posted by Kavitha Narayanan in JLT on April 3rd, 2010

http://datastore.rediff.com/h5000-w5000/thumb/635A7074616B2E31/52g140jav8dld7a8.D.0.b3_household005.jpgYou have been so busy with life doing absolutely nothing of importance for many many years and suddenly one fine day, you have the entire 24 hours to yourself… Not only that you realize you are going to have many more such days.. What do you do?? 

Initially:
- You go crazy with happiness 
- You run around meeting people and claiming that these are the best days of your life 
- You sleep, pamper yourself and spend relentless hours with the idiot box 

Sometime later:
- You make resolutions every single day to do things you always wanted too and then ignore it every day knowing that tomorrow is always there
- You do some adhoc jobs (again nothing of importance) and have the satisfaction of a job well done 
- You continue to sleep, pamper yourself and spend more relentless hours with the idiot box 

Eventually: 
You now realize that reality is finally setting in. This is the time you always wanted to have and now that you have it, you cant just sleep it off. So you decide to take matters in your hand. Your lazy soul is going to put up a big battle but you have decided that it is better to fight a losing battle then never fight at all. 

That said, you go back and see what did you not do in the last many many years.. loads and loads and loads of things…. For starters you think of the many friends that you never bothered to stay in touch except for the occasional activity on a social networking site. So that is what you intend to do. Dust off your phone/phone book and get back in touch… 

Oh ya, so that is what I did :) I picked up the phone and called my once best friends only to realize that they will always remain best friends. I definitely was hesitant to take the first step but I don’t repent it one bit. Nothing had changed - we just talked and talked as if we were sitting next to each other in the same old cement bench, in the same old hard culvert or in our hostel room.. and obviously it amazed us on how we were catching up after 10 years as if it was yesterday. 

So thanks to my good old friends for not allowing age , time and life to take over. 
It felt great to get back in touch and I am glad I eventually did some dusting. So go ahead before its too late, your friends are still there and it is time you knew a little more about them then what they say in a social networking site.

It never hurts to do some dusting (If I can say so!)  

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