I am glad that I could meet  my college friends over the weekend. We have been friends for like 19 years I would say. We all met in 2002 at our engineering college. 

We went to one of my friend's farmhouse which she had been inviting. It has been a mad house with 6 kids(each with 2, zero from me lol). We had a great time. We hardly slept for those 3 days because the only time kids sleep in the night we could catch up with each other with drinks and stuffs.

It is so amazing to have friends whom you know for this long and they literally know everything about you. I just started thinking about our college times with them. There were so many amazing times and we have equally shared our sorrows with all of us. The research says if you retain your friendship beyond  7 years which means they are no more your friends, they are your family. 

Memories in those 19 years are unbelievable. Those memories when one of us fell down terribly during college days, I still remember that when I got placed first in the group, though they were so supportive of me inspite of they still waiting to get placed. It was the same friends when my first ever serious relationship broke with my college mate, they sat with me and literally shared tears with me. I still cant get over those times. 

I had just come back from my onsite assignment it was just that one year assignment was over and though the initial assignment was for a month or two the assignment got extended I was so happy. I was determined to stay back in US because my then boy friend was to come to US for his MBA and I wanted to make sure we are in US together. My parents already knew about this relationship like any other Indian family they were dead against it and the day today drama was going on. My parents literally thought that I moved to US and got married to him and never coming back (LOL). Though  I was honest to my parents about my relationship there was no plan of getting married without them. But the guy whom I was dating was all quiet when we were in a relationship(honestly, that was one of the best relationship I ever had because he was very emotional, understanding, very very smart, extremely talented, knew what he wanted out of life, he was determined to do his MBA and was so into cracking GMAT and infact he got one of the best scores. I knew he is going to be in US and I made sure that I will go, infact I travelled to US before him. Unfortunately, things didnt go well and he was not at all ready to take it the next level by discussing with his parents.  After an year, in the mean time when my assignment got over I was not in mood to move back but I had to. The good part of this trip was I knew I had started enjoying the US life and I had L1-B back then and I decided that I will travel back with H1-B and within 2 years I travelled back to US with my H1 through different employer. 

Anyways, when I came back from US after an year, these friends called me and got to know that I am in India, they said they wanted to catch up, we all met at one of my friends place. We all started crying. She told me that my dad called me and literally had an emotional breakdown with my friend saying that if she is hung up on marrying this guy we are ok just that the wedding should happen in our tradition. My friend without even me knowing she reached out to this guy who was in US and till now I have no idea what conversation she had with him. Because we all had studied together she had access to this guy and she spoke to him. That was the end of it. I wished him good luck and I told him that I will block him and I blocked him that day. It was one of the toughest periods of my life and these people were there for me.

Ofcourse we have had our own ups and downs in friendship but the beauty of it is to talk it over and get things sorted out. I am sure this friendship will never end and it will continue forever :)

While we were in the farmhouse finally on sunday night we were able to get sometime for each other