OMG! Such un-random (is there such a word?) ‘rants? What began as a personal anecdote dedicated to the daughter ….. seems to be sadly neglected. But I can’t have her forget how wacky her mom is …decades hence, can I?
Okay, I have busy-as-a-bee …..sleeping, cooking and then sleeping….and what else? Hmm….can’t really recall ….
Anyways, this Friendship Day has brought to the fore so many many memories. Like when the daughter was in class six and she wakes me up with a wet-wet kiss and a Friendship Day hug at an ungodly hour. What she was tying is supposed to be a Rakhi in a Friendship Day avatar (and you thought kids were poor at recycling???)….but to the sleepy senses it felt like ‘twas a lifelong chain on my wrist (the silken threads kept getting undone, so intelligent as she is, she made a secure knot …or was she, securing a lifelong champion in the face of an over-protective over-possessive ‘Pops’?)
She came home from school that day with Friendship bands tied all over her two small arms and the biggest beam ever …pointing out proudly to the gleaming badge on her shirt ….saying ….’Class Monitress’.
Ooooooohhhhhh!
After I had gone on a typical Mama overdrive….oohhing and aahing….with lots of kisses and hugs thrown in ….. I recall getting into typical Girl Guide mode, calling up her friends and the Moms for an impromptu Friendship Day party. Well, I have ALWAYS been a parrrrrty animal, but never got much of a chance......sigh!!
It was a great hit. Met moms and kids for the first time ……some of whom have become friends-for-ever now!
That year kick-started this hyped Friendship Day thing …. And daughter bonding has given way to (MY!!) personal friends exchanges ….a.k.a. Friendship Day texts (Friends are the ones who don’t have time to call you ….LOL!)
Am too bad a texting…..and over the years the texts petered out ….. just as the Friendship bands scaled down on my daughter’s wrists …..these kids too have transitioned to the ubiquitous texting ....they are simply AWWWW SOME when it comes to mass texting,,,not to forget speed!!
This year, something funny happened. Was at a doc’s chamber (where else?) clutching my colicky stomach and trying to sport a cheerful appearance, when my cell phone beeps with this Friendship day text ....from God knows where.
This is how it read
Never say you are happy when you are sad
Never say you are fine when you are not ok
And never say you are alone when I am still alive
HAPPY FRIENDSHIP DAY
Oh, so it is Friendship Day is it? Gosh, I was really getting old and outmode.
I was looking for a distraction anyway. (In retrospection, the text seems a bit on the tawdry side....and had I been in my senses, I guess I would have re-phrased.....oops...my usual after-it-has-happened-reflections!!!)
Anyways, I forwarded @this text it to a couple of contacts whom I actually consider ‘Friends’.
Some of the best response I got…..they sure brought back that cheer in me!!!!
Thanx…it’s a gr8 feeling
Feels good to have friends like you ..:)
:) …..from a 24x7 doc…wow, am honoured ...after all he lives in the OT!
Oye! Tumko kya ho gaya hai?...poor guy, he thought I was on deathbed.....he, he, hum jaldi se jaane waale nahi hai ......bauhoton ko pareshaan karna jo baki hai!
Thnx …didn’t know it was such a big thing now (hey, in which planet is he? EVERYTHING is getting hyped and commercialised these days!)..hope yr arthritic bones n jts are behaving.... (as tho i need reminding!)
My response to the last one (he is one of those friends who sure makes me smile) ….and wud understand all the lingo!
(And YESSSS!!!!!! Am pretty proud of my poetry-health nexus....he, he, who wouldn't be???????????????????????
So have chosen to record this for eternity.....did I say I DID NOT SPORT a wacky sense of humour??)
as usual - the bones creak
joints are becoming weak
the spondylitis points attention seek
muscles/nerves have gone a 'fibro' freak
so days pass by in fits of pain n sleep
sugar frolic has me weak
when it ain't a BP peak
cholesterol deposits on face peek
mirror says I fast-forwarded to a 60s geek
all this makes me depressed n meek
Funny, altho’ I’ve always been fond of poetry ….keying this one has been the most therapeutic ever …
I guess that’s what friends are for ….to make you forget the pains ,,,,when THEY are NOT being a pain in the...!
So here's to Friendship Day ....and my wee little circle of friends ....the ones under my roof ....the ones in cyberspace ....and the ones in the once-in-a-bluemoon circuit ...and the ones who make me smile :)
Okay, I have busy-as-a-bee …..sleeping, cooking and then sleeping….and what else? Hmm….can’t really recall ….
Anyways, this Friendship Day has brought to the fore so many many memories. Like when the daughter was in class six and she wakes me up with a wet-wet kiss and a Friendship Day hug at an ungodly hour. What she was tying is supposed to be a Rakhi in a Friendship Day avatar (and you thought kids were poor at recycling???)….but to the sleepy senses it felt like ‘twas a lifelong chain on my wrist (the silken threads kept getting undone, so intelligent as she is, she made a secure knot …or was she, securing a lifelong champion in the face of an over-protective over-possessive ‘Pops’?)
She came home from school that day with Friendship bands tied all over her two small arms and the biggest beam ever …pointing out proudly to the gleaming badge on her shirt ….saying ….’Class Monitress’.
Ooooooohhhhhh!
After I had gone on a typical Mama overdrive….oohhing and aahing….with lots of kisses and hugs thrown in ….. I recall getting into typical Girl Guide mode, calling up her friends and the Moms for an impromptu Friendship Day party. Well, I have ALWAYS been a parrrrrty animal, but never got much of a chance......sigh!!
It was a great hit. Met moms and kids for the first time ……some of whom have become friends-for-ever now!
That year kick-started this hyped Friendship Day thing …. And daughter bonding has given way to (MY!!) personal friends exchanges ….a.k.a. Friendship Day texts (Friends are the ones who don’t have time to call you ….LOL!)
Am too bad a texting…..and over the years the texts petered out ….. just as the Friendship bands scaled down on my daughter’s wrists …..these kids too have transitioned to the ubiquitous texting ....they are simply AWWWW SOME when it comes to mass texting,,,not to forget speed!!
This year, something funny happened. Was at a doc’s chamber (where else?) clutching my colicky stomach and trying to sport a cheerful appearance, when my cell phone beeps with this Friendship day text ....from God knows where.
This is how it read
Never say you are happy when you are sad
Never say you are fine when you are not ok
And never say you are alone when I am still alive
HAPPY FRIENDSHIP DAY
Oh, so it is Friendship Day is it? Gosh, I was really getting old and outmode.
I was looking for a distraction anyway. (In retrospection, the text seems a bit on the tawdry side....and had I been in my senses, I guess I would have re-phrased.....oops...my usual after-it-has-happened-reflections!!!)
Anyways, I forwarded @this text it to a couple of contacts whom I actually consider ‘Friends’.
Some of the best response I got…..they sure brought back that cheer in me!!!!
Thanx…it’s a gr8 feeling
Feels good to have friends like you ..:)
:) …..from a 24x7 doc…wow, am honoured ...after all he lives in the OT!
Oye! Tumko kya ho gaya hai?...poor guy, he thought I was on deathbed.....he, he, hum jaldi se jaane waale nahi hai ......bauhoton ko pareshaan karna jo baki hai!
Thnx …didn’t know it was such a big thing now (hey, in which planet is he? EVERYTHING is getting hyped and commercialised these days!)..hope yr arthritic bones n jts are behaving.... (as tho i need reminding!)
My response to the last one (he is one of those friends who sure makes me smile) ….and wud understand all the lingo!
(And YESSSS!!!!!! Am pretty proud of my poetry-health nexus....he, he, who wouldn't be???????????????????????
So have chosen to record this for eternity.....did I say I DID NOT SPORT a wacky sense of humour??)
as usual - the bones creak
joints are becoming weak
the spondylitis points attention seek
muscles/nerves have gone a 'fibro' freak
so days pass by in fits of pain n sleep
sugar frolic has me weak
when it ain't a BP peak
cholesterol deposits on face peek
mirror says I fast-forwarded to a 60s geek
all this makes me depressed n meek
Funny, altho’ I’ve always been fond of poetry ….keying this one has been the most therapeutic ever …
I guess that’s what friends are for ….to make you forget the pains ,,,,when THEY are NOT being a pain in the...!
So here's to Friendship Day ....and my wee little circle of friends ....the ones under my roof ....the ones in cyberspace ....and the ones in the once-in-a-bluemoon circuit ...and the ones who make me smile :)
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