Faceless Friends

I've lost contact with all my school friends. Frankly, I don't even remember most of their faces now. Though it feels quite bad, this post is not about them :D This post is about the many people whom I've met in the Internet world and made friends with.

It was in the second year of my stint at a b-school that I gave a serious thought to chatting in the virtual world. It was the same time when I entered the networking site called Orkut. After meeting some guys and gals in orkut who shared common interests with me, we shifted our discussions to the yahoo messenger. With so many hours of discussion every week on baseless topics, I can now say that I know some of them better than what I know of my college-mates and colleagues. Think about it, friendships lasting over a year without actually meeting any of them in the physical world. Ofcourse most of them have met each other except for yours truely. Most of these people are in Chennai and Bangalore and I happened to wane away my time in Indore and Mumbai over the past year. Even when I was in Bangalore or Chennai I couldn't manage to meet any of them. Time crunch or laziness? I can't know for sure. But the fun of remaining virtual continues.

The marriage of one of these friends is coming up, and I am sure that I will not be able to make it to Chennai on the occasion. I fell quite bad at missing her wedding. After her marriage she will move to Bermuda and settle there and be permanently virtual to me. I hope atleast the other fellas can make it to her wedding and have a galla time. Hope to meet the rest sometime in the future.