My friend!

In standard 1B of Baldwin girls’ high school I met this young and very tiny girl called Rashmi, this was 14

Rashmi was always a very bright rank one student. For the last 14 years I’ve seen her and she has always achieved high academic excellence, but this is not the reason why she is one of my closest friends.

She was the model student. She was helpful and was a good leader and everybody liked her! She was always miss. Popular in school. But this was not just it, she’s exceptionally talented. Somewhat musical can play the keyboard and the guitar. She’s also good with art and craft! An extremely intelligent girl and damn smart too! All my life, probably I’ve NEVER accepted, but I’ve always looked up to her. Be it in academics or even things like clothes preference, tv shows, books, movies or anything. If Rash gives a recco I’m sure to follow on!

Though we’ve always been in the same class, it was somewhere during the 7^th or the 8^th that we got somewhat close.. But we got really close in the school trip in standard nine, when we would discuss enthusiastically, harry potter for hours on end!

We both sort of possess this joint quality of just talking a HELL lot over the phone during exam times! And that’s what brought us even closer!

I think more than a quarter of the telephone bills both our parents have paid in the last 6 years is cos of Rashmi! I can talk anything under the sun with her! Ranging from south park to intense philosophy and books to food! From girly gossips to problems, and to cooking up vague words and names for other people! She’s my wall! If I’ve anything in the world to tell! (and trust me I “tell” a LOT) I go to her! If something happens, even a minute thing that probably has absolutely no significance whatsoever HAS to be told to Rashmi, not a day goes by where I haven’t randomly ranted to her about a million different things!

Even after school, though we went different places to college we’ve always been awfully close, we don’t need to meet each other or anything. We’ve just remained close.

There’s some kind of an inseparable bond between us. We’re dreadfully similar, ranging from our family backgrounds (only child, both working parents etc!) to the usage of words! That’s what has kept us together. And we’re not similar cos we were born that way, we’re similar cos we grew up with each other and we’ve been around each other for too long to be different!

As you turn 20, I couldn’t think of a gift to give you in return for making my life this way, cos if you weren’t there I wouldn’t have been like this. And this is the least I could do. I don’t think any amount of words can express what kind of friends we are. Just a feeble attempt!

Happy Birthday Rashmi!

It’s just a personal thing that I had to write, I don’t expect any comments or anything, cos “I don’t need any, I’m just expressing myself, cos my blog is where I put up whatever I feel