how long is 2 years....

Two years doesn't seem a long time...but things are quite not the same what they were two years ago...traffic on the streets of chennai have doubled may be tripled...many people who i knew and went around with are long gone from here....some others are pretty busy with their new family (the occasion that i so dearly missed, sure they missed me too )...people seem older...ofcourse the landscape has changed quite a lot too...

The thing that hit me first was the fact that i just seemed to have lost track of how "costly" everything had become (staring at me in Eastman color in the form of the note in my wallet)....but the worst (an probably something that i expected) was yet to come.....

succumbing to the urge of the tasty sambar smell from saravana bhavan (keeping with tradition to eat there when i come from US...haha u do need reasons machi) i went to munch down my favorites with a buddy of mine...we sat at the table catchin up on some moments in history as we chomped on some kara dosai (this just is out of this world...try it if u ever get a chance to step into saravana bhavan) an vegetable paratha (aka chilly paratha)....i realized as i sate there that day....some people don seem to be the same....don seem to look the same...heck don even think the way they used to earlier....things have certainly changed...the way i look at things has changed....the way i don expect anything now has changed (yeah earlier i used to but now i don't....expectation is the cause of all misery if u ask me!!!)..... it was then that i said to myself "2 years is indeed a long time"...

one silver lining though is that people who i call friends who are close to me are still the same....nothing has changed between us.... infact we have actually grown closer....they say distance is always the yardstick to test any relationship dare i say distance is something physical that can always come between people but there is no great distance that can ever come between hearts......now that is real power....