"Getting Back in Touch--How wonderful!"

Misty Shillong Welcomes Me

I have been amazed at my own joy and great expectations in meeting old friends after 7-10 years of absolute silence. I am in Shillong after 7 years. I have lived my childhood here and have grown up to be an extraordinarily straight-forward being.

I couldn't speak in English when I first came to Shillong (1991) and thus suffered severe consequences. My pencils, erasers and even lunch box were stolen and snatched in front of me and I couldn't even fight back. Then came rigorous training at home from Bro and teachers at school. Gradually, by late 1992, I could converse well enough. Since then, Shillong has just taught me lessons after lessons necessary to make the package that I am.

St. Edmund's College

I was always very choosy about friends and thus have very few friends. You can't get close to every person you meet! Now, thanks to Facebook, that I happened to bump into so many old friends, most of them married and mothers, most others well settled in life. I have met lectures, walked down those small lanes of St. Edmund's College, where I had famous and infamous adventures; met school friends, talked for hours of time long past. I am in nostalgia for the past 5 days and I guess it will never end now.


It is so wonderful to get back in touch, it is a different world. I have overlooked the bad and forgave the faults because it is just no use remembering them. I am so happy to have forgotten most things and just realize that when I was young, I was so difficult!  I am proud that people remember me and are so proud of me. I guess it was worth being born.

Walking down the memory lanes of childhood, I have relived it every moment, minute by minute, every dialog word by word and every friend nature by nature. Thank you Shillong and friends in here who have helped me grow.

Feels like heaven