touching base with old friends

many had been long lost, actually shrapnels from dim memories of school life. now, many of them are returning to claim mindspace and that feels good. school friendships always are special, no matter how many friends you make later on. there is this unalloyed joy at speaking to them, meeting them. and when some of them actually upload old photographs, it is so reminiscent of an age when nothing seemed to be real outside of school life. and at the same time, all those small petty enmities that consumed class hours seem so microscopic now. vanishing in time to take its place as just so many memories to add that list.