When I was in school, I had a best friend. She used to understand me like no one else was ever able to. I never thought I could find any other friend like her. She meant so much to me that I felt life would be impossible without her.

Then I grew a little older and started going to college in a new city. Initially there wasn’t a single moment that I didn’t miss my parents or my best friend from school. Then, as the days passed, I started making friends in college and days started getting better. Some became really good friends. I still used to miss my parents and my school’s best friend, but the frequency became little less and life started feeling less miserable without them.

Soon I adjusted completely well in my college life and started enjoying my days, when I grew older further, and soon it was time to leave college and start the next phase of my life — my professional life. I had got into one of the best companies through college placement and would soon be joining it.

I again felt my life falling apart and dreaded to even think how I would even survive without my college beasties by my side. I was sure I was never going to find such friends at my work place. After all it’s said once you start working, everyone is your colleague but none are your friend.

Still, as life is, I moved on leaving my beautiful school and college days and friends behind. As more such days passed by, I found myself actually starting to enjoy this new phase of my life, and astonishingly, I had managed to make some good friends here as well. And when I say friends, I mean real friends and not just colleagues. I started to enjoy life once again.

But just then, once again, life happened. As always, just when I was again enjoying and loving life, I grew older still, and now I was to move to yet another phase of my life — my married life. I was to get married and move to yet another completely new city. This time I was certain that my fun days were behind me, and now it would all be about relationships and responsibilities.

But thankfully, I was again proved to be wrong. I soon settled on to this new phase of my life, which though was so different from the life I have had so far, yet had its own charm. I now have a husband, who is always by my side, like a forever friend, and I again managed to make new good friends at my new work place, and of course, my husband’s friends who soon became my friends, the best friends’ type.

I still miss my school, college and office friends and talk to them occasionally. Whenever I get a chance to meet them, it’s always like those good old days and we have a gala time. But life didn’t stop for any of us. We all have moved on with our lives and gotten busy in it.

Life goes on, it never stops. Many times in our life, we feel this is the end, or that we are never going to overcome a particular situation, but that’s not the case. We move on, leaving precious memories along the way. We never forget the ones who touched our lives, but we all do get busy in our current lives. Occasionally, when we do take a peek back, we may find a small smile playing on our lips, and we may also shed a silent tear or two, as we revisit the good old days and miss our dear friends, but life goes on.

As Dr. Seuss rightly said:

In the end we realize, the only person who is always going to be with you is you. Only you are permanent in your life, everybody else is temporary.

People are meant to come and go, helping us walk on this path of life. People come into our lives, and leave once there part in our life is done, leaving behind just memories. In the end, it is just us, alone with all these precious memories.

This quote by Lao Tzu, I feel, describes life perfectly: