"Abi to yahin tha,abhi kho gaya.."

Time flies. Hair flies. Weight is gained. Enemies forgotten (not forgiven whenever rememebered so don't get too comfortable ye aging puckered faces on Insta- Finsta: if thou were not as beautiful at 20 which filter or "you look gorgeous" comment can make thee so after 20 Delhi winters with its South Ex chaat and sarson saag). Change is felt in friendships and firms alike- some have died some are dying though they do not know it yet and some just need euthanasia like my cousin-sister's neighbour's pet-dog. Phones (and associates) have become smarter, rage is cool and that makes angry women acceptable rather than Phulan Devis with office jobs. Jobs is dead. Shah Rukh is fading like Amitabh his post Aaj ka Arjun days. We are all officially friendless now that the Facebook profile is widely seen as fantasy. We are also old enough to realize so was the TV show Friends but young enough to suspend disbelief anyway as we think of how we let four Americans into our young Indian adult world, so far away as it was and is from America. Nokia phones inspire some nostalgia of thr early work years as Hitachi does of childhood gadgets. Associates regularly join (and leave making office feelmas transitional as a 90s Hotmail chatroom- byeeeeeeeeee!). One can remember movies one watched in the years associates were born. The Maine Pyar Kiya associates are now SAs the Darr and Raja Babu ones are busy with due diligence. The DDLJ ones will start associate life next year. And so it is with youth, O' readers of yore: it passes, "abhi to yahin tha, abji kho gaya". Taking with it early office life cafe laughter, Yahoo messenger blocking, chasing designations and boys or girls. Hating some and loving a few. And all that is substituted with (by?) a minor dislike for everyone in various shades, of shifting shadows. Some hair dye, some mutual mild annoyances, mutual funds, god-pictures as DPs once in a while. Thanks for reading. The closest one getsp to creative writing of late has been how to draft the subject of an invoice reminder.