Life as it Moves

Life! It just keeps moving doesnt it! I mean, it just seemed like yesterday that we started school and were getting to know our new classmates and already its nearly been two months and "newbies" aren't newbies anymore, infact, they're about as FAPSian as you (referring to onlyFAPSians obviously! ) or I. It seems like they've been there forever. "A class without them"- absurd is the thought!
Then there's a jolt back to the past. A close friend whom you haven't talked to since her birthday pops into school. She's been a FAPSian from the nursery till the 10th and is now in college. But she seems less FAPSian than our two-month-old classmate. She's still the same. Okay, maybe there's a little more flesh in the face but then, maybe thats there in me too! We reminisce while looking at our old classroom and then I vividly describe to her my classmates and their little quirks. The fun-times of the past are compared to the fun-times of the present. It is then realized that those seemingly eternal classmates were infact not classmates just a few months ago!
Amazing how the mind adapts! Contact is lost so easily. Promises made seem futile. "But he never calls, why should I" or "I was way too busy settling down so i had no time to call her" - frequent excuses. But doesn't it seems silly in the end. I mean, we promised to never lose touch. We wrote in everyone's slam book and on their uniforms and what not - "If you lose touch, I will kill you". But well, it is in the end a two-way street. One can make continuous effort only if the other does too.
What really do we do with spare time? Talk to friends on the phone. Those very friends who we see in school everyday. Doesn't it make more sense to call some old friend who we havent talked to in a few months? But thats not how we function, our thinking is at a totally different wavelength.
Well, atleast a call on birthdays is mandatory, but when one forgets that, then you know that you've reached the end of the line, it's time to turn back and get onto a right route or take the plunge, leave the past behind!

angry at myself,
Kavya
p.s- the "we"'s and "you"'s used here mainly refer to me! It just sounds nicer when read in plural!!
(p.p.s- This was originally written on July 27th)