Day 2 : ..Always Pays His Debts

Today clearly did not go as anticipated. This actually is a good thing I suppose.

I was to speak with an old friend with whom I’d lost contact for a long while, and with some bad blood between us. Sure it was still there right beneath the surface, but we both tried our very best to keep it hidden. This was surprising, because back when we were fighting, this thing was a really big deal.

It’s weird how different people, even once best friends, seem so different each other given time. Speak to someone after a few years and you’ll easily notice a change in their language, some of their quirks amiss. We all adapt to things around us. I’ve surely changed; my hindi wasn’t so darn conservative in college. I still have to remember to consciously add expletives to my sentences for my college mates to actually believe it’s really me taking to them and not some weird sanskari Prem-clone.

But no matter how much you change you still remain the same at the core, I guess. This friend I spoke today, did a huge favour for me back in the day. Those were some troubled times in my life and some people really helped me through it. This stinky duck-egg was one of them.

Though friends drift apart, you always subconsciously keep track of them. Your brain always earmarks little tidbits/news about them from conversations with other old friends etc, you store them someplace inside your head. This friend also had a little story that was doing the rounds. A vile one, and not completely true. There were parts of it that were being missed, parts which could actually redeem this person of any wrongdoing. I never corrected them, well; it was not expected of me anymore was it?

But always felt a bit ill about that. Came clean about it with the gang, including this friend and a few of the old mob those that still count.

I don’t know if it helped much anymore. And like WC said, a lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on. This one probably has gone through the motions already, and has already become a fact by-word-of-mouth.

But nonetheless, felt good to empty your conscious, and return an old favor to someone who's been kind... That’s what today was all about I think.

Today, the Lannister pays his debt.