Reason to Smile :)

Reason to Smile: Who knew that one phone call from a distant close friend ( who stays 400 kms away) would make a plan so spontaneous and adventurous :P Thats me and thats my friends always ;) So while the weekend I did not make any plans to surprise Mom with Lunch at Sofitel, it was quite natural that post the lunch with family, I ran away to Dahanu to catch up with my friends :) They had just started from Baroda and called me on their way if I could directly see them at Dahanu. With no plans already fixed, could I ever say a No to something so exciting :P So I rushed up to pack my bags and Anirban asked me if I could join him for a movie. I instead asked him if he wants to join me to Dahanu :P Within no time we both were ready with the bags :P I reached Chembur  to check if buses to Dahanu is a possibility. Trains are easiest but we did not want to take a chance since there was a mega block going on for Saturday tracks maintenance. Last option - just hop on to any volvo bus ...

Reason to Smile: It was the 1st of April when a school friend pinged me on whats app asking to meet up because a reunion was arranged. For sure, I thought it was some prank. I was extremely apprehensive because - one, it was arranged on the April fools day and two, it had been 20 years I never met some of them after we passed out school ! I wasn't sure how things would turn out after meeting some of those with whom we shared our lunch boxes, last benches, and our very own "outside the class" punishments :P After all it was twenty years gone by. All of them I heard had gotten married, had families to look after, were occupied with jobs or businesses, etc. To think of it wondrously, I was just not able to even imagine if some of us would even recognize each other? Recollect what all we did in school as friends or best friends? How would we even start talking after so long? Everyone would have their stories. Would they remember about anything from school? I kept wonderi...