Bridges of Orkut County...

There’s nothing like an emotional high of re-establishing contact with ole’ pals who you’ve completely lost touch with. More so especially, if these are pals who’ve had considerable influence on your growth as an individual; pals, who in no small measure, have helped you come into your own over your growing years. It’s another matter then, ironic as it were, that as you came into your own, you also chose to go it that way, from then on, gradually having lost touch with your once close friends. It happens with all of us all the time as we battle the dilemma of ‘how much of ourselves and how many of our relationships to leave behind, as we move forward’

Aahhh…the story of life!

And then when- many summers down the line, when fate, guised in the name of Orkut, surreptitiously destined that you ‘network’ across six degrees of separation along each other’s path - you discover that, irrespective of the chasm of time between your last meeting and this one, the bridge of ‘connect’ still holds just as strong, the feeling of bonding becomes all the more intense. Engulfed by a tsunami of sweeping memories coming at large over you, you are surged in the nostalgic sea of time, almost drenched to you weather-beaten bones before you are washed miles ashore into the present – the now. The time to act is now, you realize!

It’s a defining moment in the history of that friendship from then on; almost like a milestone erected in the direction of its forward course. Wiser in retrospect now, you know this time over that you want to do all it takes in your ambit to nurture and nourish these bonds for good, silently expecting nonetheless that your efforts are equally reciprocated.

And with the dawn of that feeling begins a whole new chapter that is freshly inked on the pages of that long-lost forgotten book.

The more I delve into seeking the design behind such happy chance findings, the more I am convinced that life does give us all a second chance - and if not a new beginning, at least a whole new direction - with the people who’ve meant a lot to you - to make good the elapsed passages of lost time; the karmic principle of eternal hope in, and continuity across all creation, if you may!

Like the foggy silver of dawn against the brittle brown of passing time, these friends re-enter your life and complete you in ways you never even thought were possible after you last parted, gathering around you from all corners like a shawl against the winterliness of the incomplete world.

I’d guess it must work the other way too; having you back in their lives must have quite the same impact on them as well!

Like they say, in life, some relationships are simply just meant to be!

Thank you Orkut for making this so much more possible...