Passing phases

[008] ... [Life]

From the moment in childhood when we begin to sense on our own and start interacting with others outside our home and beyond parents and family, a whole lot of people start streaming into our lives. Most of school and collegemates, past neighbours, colleagues at work, professionally connected among them kind of remain on our minds though not in touch, despite the passing of time - - may be because of longer time spent with them intimately. We can recall names and incidents easily or with a little effort, however long ago, that often brings a smile or a laugh from the good old days.

A short girl was among the classmates during the primary school, a bit dark, quiet and not so bright, and invariably used to bring in laughs owing to her antics or obvious errors that to her somehow seemed right. I remember the English class on the use of periods or fullstops to end a sentence and start the next in uppercase. The next day when checking our homework, while all others had caught on, the teacher displayed hers to the whole class. Every word carried a nice and big-round period! When asked, her innocent answer was it looked nice!

In life too there are relationships, which at least run upto a whole sentence, short or long, some sustain till a paragraph, a chapter or more, and very few survive through the whole book. Invariably there are also those, so short-lived which don't last beyond a word...