To the friends I made but couldn’t keep
I think of you. I think of you a lot of times. Sometimes you occupy my entire day and there are times I wake up in the middle of the night because of the nightmares I get. Nightmares are made of thoughts at the back of one’s mind and more often than not, those thoughts are unaccepted, denied or just scary. I think of you when I’m walking rounds and rounds after dinner, when I’m waiting for my station standing in a crowded bus, when I’m with people laughing and talking excessively, when I’m having good days, when I’m reading a book and come across a similar character like you — like any one of you, when there are extreme joyful situations and also when there are lowest lows. I think of you. In other words, you didn’t leave my mind. You’re either no longer in my life or you’re on the verge of leaving but you haven’t left my mind and you will probably not. I met some of you in the most typical scenarios and there are those of you I met accidentally and unexpectedly. But eit...