My road trip.....

Can you visualize a scene where your friends come home and drag you out for a road trip? Where you can feel the wind in your face, where you laugh endlessly and freely, where you stop every five minutes for food, and even while its cold outside, the warmth you feel from spending time with old friends make the cold disappear.

Sounds very "filmy" but ah well, I have always had very filmy friends. Introducing you to the three characters that made my road trip, and my life, interesting. Meet:

Tharun: Spongebob lover. Lights up when he talks about movies, family and his friends. Can zone out into his own world, loves cracking jokes, and freaks out easily. 

Saad: The calm one. Has most of the conversations in his head, cares way too much but will never show it, keeps the group together and is the least filmy of us all.

Ranjith: Lost his brain while working for VG, talks first and thinks later, laughs at EVERYTHING. Loves his friends and family to infinity and beyond.

When the three of them get together, the rest of the world ceases to exist, and all that exists is the three of them and the bond they share. The laughter over the "friends Dhaba, the bonfire in the winter, the beer park, the eggs from the basket, the meat from the market, the UFO." What exists is a friendship where silence is comfortable, where you can lie down in a field and look at the stars where the sky is clear, where you can be silly enough to ask questions about what a UFO is, assume it is a foreign object and try to find meaning in the stars, when you laugh and high-five each other when Tharun starts freaking out.  There exists a  bond so strong where in the whole journey from the highway to a lake, to a cliff, to a field, to a dhaba and back to the highway, the highlight of the trip was spending time with each other and knowing that the memories you made then, would get you through till the next time they saw each other. 

And what role do I play in this whole equation you ask? The three of them are a part of me. I have Ranjith's stupidity, Saad's sense of loyalty and Tharun's sense of humour. These three are my boys. Their friendship is incomplete without me, just as my life is incomplete without them.