Short trips-short meetings

After a brief trip of my aunt and uncle- I think of the impact of their trip on my life.

These trips are now a common feature in most of our lives-with friends and families living abroad-with hectic schedules.

Typically my interaction with the visitors boils down to a meal-and some snatched conversation over a shopping trip. Considering the short time span, how we chose to spend the few precious moments that we have with them becomes critical. The luxury of talking about riff-raff, then warming up to the main topic doesn’t exist. We need to get to the crux of the matter right away. The essence of a minimum of half a dozen months needs to be encapsulated in a few minutes. We need to bond and bond quickly. Else the answer to the question, “hey, how is you?” will be a cursory, “fine”.

The time to savour the flavour of the moment, the time to feel the comfort of silence is simply not there. What exists is the joy of being there, together in the moment-to quickly absorb all what’s happening around you in a matter of seconds.

Meeting a friend with whom you have been in touch with-several times a day-or a couple of times a week allows us to see the lighter side of life-as we share jokes, as well as matters which are irrelevant-which you need to let go of, but cant , and hence only need to be vented about! And instead of constantly looking at the larger picture which benefits ALL of us- we can actually voice our grouses, not looking for a solution-but just that they exist!

Bottom line is, in today’s day and age its not difficult to stay in touch with the people whom we chose to make a part of pour lives-email, facebook, twitter, chat, whathaveyou! And for those who are technologically challenged there is the old fashioned telephone-which allows us to hear the familiar voice-with all its inflections!

So lets stay in touch-show that we care-and

CONNECT ! CONNECT ! CONNECT!

it takes a long time to grow an old friend-so let's keep at it!