Lost Relations !!

In the morning as a part of my daily habit, I open up my orkut account to convey best wishes to people who have their Birthday.

But today, while I was about to type down "Many happy returns of the day" as we do subconsciously, a shrill went within, my bad memory recalled back that this batch-mate of mine from Surat whom I was about to convey my wishes had passed away 5 months back.

I didn't know what to do, so left his scrapbook as such without writing anything.

We normally tend to take our close friends and relatives for-granted and miss them when they are not near to us or when Almighty takes them away from us.

Earlier people used to keep in touch through those Inland letters and postcards which used to take their own usual "Indian standard time". Don;t know but few known-one's from my grandfather's generation tell that they used to care more, kept in touch with everyone inspite of absence of these mobiles and internet. Now with advent in IT, we hv instant messengers, email and other social networking mediums- the chances of communication have improved- but somehow this "extra" busyness of "something" stops us? Is that true with u also ?

I didn't want this post to sound philosophical, but some questions definitely are worth giving a thought

* There must some 5-6 people in everyone;s life who would be very close to heart. Have we spoken to them in near past? If not, should v not have a word with them may be for a minute today?or R v under an impression that life will surely give another chance tomorrow?

*There might be some 2-3 people who would have inspired us in someway or the other. Did we express our gratitude to them or we r under the pretext that they will understand our unspoken words? May be they are waiting to hear !!!

*Inspite of claims of we being adult, all of us have a child hidden within us, which in moments of distress wants to cry by putting head on someone's shoulder. R v still in touch with those close buddies who shared our moments of sorrow? Over the period, hv our relations becomes formal with them also or do we still share same fondness and can buzz over them to cry out our emotions?

* Have we answered back to all unreplied mails, telephone calls or messages received over cellphone/instant messangers? Or r v presuming that the people who wanted to communicate us when we were busy will never mind our non-reply? Would be a dangerous assumption!!

Let's value them if not more than our work atleast equal to that or else very soon they will become our "Lost Relations"!!!