Stories

Recently my school had a farewell party for us and it just hit me that this year I met so many new  people, spoke to a lot of them. And whenever you hear new stories, a part of it gets imbibed inside you isn't it? The fact that we humans are so distinct yet what connects us is our stories. In some or the other way we have become a part of each other's stories. It intrigues me how people always share the stories they've heard as if they loved it. How we catch onto a particular phrase said by someone or unknowingly imitate someone's body language.
When we were kids, our parents often used to tell us to not talk with strangers but the fact is that our friends wouldn't have been our friends if we wouldn't have spoken with them or rather shared our stories with them. People often say that you have only 10 real friends with whom you should be close but I disagree can't we be friends with a 100 more people and be close with those 10?.

 
Coming to my last point we are all connected by stories right? That's what helps strangers bond .So here is my story ,once I met this random girl in my society she was new in Pune.  She approached me and we started talking. After speaking for sometime I got to know that she is not from Pune, but has come here for her studies as her grandfather is no more and she has shifted here. She had spent her whole life with her grandparents and her grandfather's death was a huge deal for her. She couldn't keep up  with her grief and started sobbing after that conversation we spoke about a lot of deep stuff. Honestly at the end of the conversation we decided to meet again and said our goodbyes I was unable to even take her phone number because I forgot to carry my phone. We met after a few days and until then we had forgotten each other's names but we still had the tiny little connection. Unfortunately I never met her again after that. The fact that I still can't recall her name but know a lot about her might sound creepy but that's what it is, stories connect people. One more fact I made a majority of friends by telling them horror stories .  I realised that people forget the names and faces but they don't forget conversations, the moments they shared with a person. Sometimes we might not be there with those 10 people but we might have the best conversations with
rest of the 100 people. But that's fine because we all are going to  grow up,  we are going to move differently and that's totally alright. But at the end, we will share the same stories, we will have the same connection.
Thank you <3
Parnika