Adnan Farooqui

With summer vacations well under way, each and every school in my beloved hometown karachi has been closed and the so called "tafreeh" season is well underway. I have met many many people from all around Pakistan, some of them proved to be very good friends and others went bizarre back biting assholes, but the group i value and respect the most has been with me practically my whole life. I remember my very first day when i joined school in prep class and on the same day started friendship with some of the most remarkable people that i have ever met. Since that day, it has been 11 years and we have never had fights or disputes. These friends have been with me through thick and thin, through all the difficulties of life. Among these friends is one whose opinion i value very much and whose advises have helped me alot in recent times. Today was just like and other day, the same usual hangout, the same usual time pass and the same usual friends rather brothers if i may say so...
Today was a rather odd day considering conversations, i mean i started off with remembering how one of my friends used to bend his back and we used to arm wrestle on his back during the practices of school plays. Then one thing led to another and i do not know how the thing led to the topic of relationships (though we had none back then), me staying quiet during the whole conversation earned me some "looks" because i never really like to elaborate my personal life and problems. I drifted off in my thoughts during the conversation and heard my name being mentioned once or twice. Though the conversation lasted for like 5 minutes or so, i wasn't really paying that much attention. Then we talked about the friends that had totally gone into hiding and we knew nothing about where they were studying or where they were living. Then we were joined by another one of our friends, who seems to have recently joined the group and the old memories were pitched to the side..
I have to say that i have been on and off with these friends of mine, due to me living miles away, but the thing i appreciate the most is that whenever we meet, be that 3 months or a whole year, we never have to make a fresh start, only it gets better and the friendships get stronger and stronger each time.
I feel privileged to have such great friends who have stood by me in my time of need and who have never left my side whatever might have come...

Adnan.


P.S.: This post goes out to my oldest friends Hamza and Qasim, and now we share a more stronger bond than ever before :)