if you'd asked a me before college started, i don't think he would ever believe we'd be friends, much less so close that we'd write the same thing on each other's t-shirts. you asked me at bandstand how i've changed. i have learned to live, and let loose, and enjoy, and when you said you learned the same, i couldn't imagine that, because i've learned it from you. most of my friends are very similar, and when you tell me yaaar. padhai ki baatein abhi mat kar.
or anything like it, nobody's ever been like that, because we live in it. but you taught me to live outside of it as well.
everyone around me is saying ki ye teen saal kaha chale gaye pata hi nahi chala.
but to me, it feels like it's been more. we've lived, and loved, and laughed so much, that i feel like i've lived a lifetime in mumbai. we've seen all of it (kitna hi hai), ate all of it (canteen se three storeys) and sat on all of it (marine drive se footpath). i definitely didn't agree to as many plans as i could have, but jitne gaye na. maza aaya. i was talking to lakshya, that i've never felt as strongly about goodbyes before, but he told me: this is different, because you don't know when you'll meet everyone again, if at all.
tujhe toh milne aa jaunga, don't worry. iim mein mil jaaye tab party de dena.