True Friends

They say friendship is best tasted though your school years or perhaps your college pangs. But I think friendship is not something space time and myths can contain. I tasted true sincere friendship at my first workplace. In fact they stunned me with their sincerity.I speak here of five  friends each differently spaced by age difference but all met at a wavelength that was surprising. I call them here G, R, C, B and M. And just before I moved out from there I had one more friend to remember P. They stood by me like the friends you get to know once in a lifetime. There were no conditions except the bond of comradeship that bound us. I was not a baby by the yardstick of age but they loved to pamper me with affection and could see me only as their baby friend to be protected and cared for. It is painful not to be able to meet... we were people who would manage to meet in the name of  a tea or anything under the sun. They are friends who held my life like it was their own, who trusted me and who wished well for me beyond what today's highly practical world would  normally permit. I miss them, i miss their teasing me for my absent minded nature, for my gluttony for fried chicken... I miss them more than they would ever guess. And I know they will always remain close to my heart. My friend G told me we would celebrate our friendship on this date... I know like me she will remember  the special human bond and I know all of them know that one day I would return to meet them all. Till then in memories I treasure them...