Of childhood friendships and memories....

I think I consider myself to be a pretty good human being, I mean, I have my limitations like everyone else, but at the end of the day, I think I am able to face my mirror at the end of each day and go to bed with a clear conscience...anyway, why am I rambling on about this ? Well, sometimes in life you need to sit back and count your blessings and have been doing that a bit lately.. running out of fingers and toes to count on :) One thing I have been blessed with are good friends.. not too many friends.. but some really good ones... Being this brazen fire sign that I am, starting a conversation is never an issue, hence acquaintances abound in my life.. but friends.. well those are far an in between, but the ones who are in that category, are there for life.. the ones I mistook to be "friends" fell from grace pretty quickly... so when I think back on my "friends", I guess, the best and the closest come from my childhood..Is there anything more guileless than a child's eyes or smile? I think the friends we made as children were just that.. true friendships.. not based on the concept of "mutual interests", or "study groups" or any other criterion as such.. it was the simple joy of playing with someone, or just hanging out..

With time these friends of mine parted ways, and yet they always remained in my heart and I guess, I in theirs... because, after decades when we got back in touch, it was as if we took off just the day we left off, so yesterday we were talking about an upcoming test, and today we were weighing the pros and cons of living in the United States vs. somewhere else.. it is amazing to me, how we can make that transition with people we haven't spoken to in ages and yet find it difficult to have a conversation on those lines with people we meet every day..

I think the heart has something to do with it... analysing something so sweet would ruin it, feeling and experiencing it makes it special.. so i will leave it at that.. and continue to count and be thankful for my blessings....