After a long time, I met some of my best friends today. It was a wonderful reunion. I don’t know whether I’ll get a chance like this again in the future. So today, I feel like writing something about friends… about friendship.

FRIEND — someone who will be with you throughout your life. I read this somewhere, but how true is it? How many of us really have friends like that? And how many of us are like that to others?

Looking back at my college life, I can say I had several good friends, but I’m not sure how long I’ll be able to keep in touch with them. I always wish I could rewind my life to fix the mistakes I made in the past (I’m sure this isn’t just my thought — each one of us thinks this at some stage in life).

Small ego clashes that usually happen between friends take away precious moments of our lives — moments we can never get back. The value of something is realized only after we lose it. It’s the same with friends. We understand their value and the place they hold in our hearts only when we’re far, far away from them.

Recently, I got an email from a friend. The subject was: “Things we should learn from the movie Dil Chahta Hai.” It was a wonderful email, and I found several valuable messages in it, like:

• Never be ashamed to go back to your old friends. Friends are there to understand your mistakes.

• There are relationships beyond boyfriend/girlfriend and friendship — very emotional and true ones, beyond many people’s understanding.

• Even though you may be the best of friends, there is always a limit which should never be crossed. Otherwise, it starts hurting.

• Improving your imperfections after you realize them always takes some time.

• Believe in love. True love will never let you down.

• In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.

• The only unchangeable certainty is that nothing is certain or unchangeable.

These are priceless messages. We will understand or realize all these things at some point in our lives — but by then, it might be too late.

Maybe this is what they call the “so-called life."