I hope u must have come across someone like him in ur life at least once 🫠
I recently watched Dear Friend, and Vinod reminded me so much of someone I knew in college and it was painful .
He was someone I genuinely wanted to become close to and whom I considered like my close friends. He had this strange charm about him, very private, mysterious, and difficult to read. Whenever he opened up, he'd open up a lot, maybe accidentally ? but most of the time he' will be evasive of keeping people too close or dodge personal questions or keep people at arm's length, without many people understanding it
At first, we'd talk a lot. We'd spend time together, and he was actually fun and I honestly thought we were becoming good friends.
Then, without any argument or obvious reason, he'd slowly become distant and he became friends with another circle If I happened to meet him again or if i reached out again , he'd act completely normal, as if nothing had changed. Then when we would start hanging out or being friends , he'd disappear again. The push and pull , that cycle kept repeating.
The confusing part is that I never knew what I did wrong. There was never an argument , fight, never any closure, just... distance and also being clueless about him like namku oru idea kitunila how the person is
After college, he went completely no contact
Oddly enough, that only added to his mystique. Even today, people still ask about him or wonder what he's up to. He always seemed to have different friend groups wherever he went, school , college , and no one felt suspicious and people welcome him like normally or they forget that whenever he reappears back into their lives .
yet at the same time people all felt really close to him and wanting him to be in their circle . Karnam i don't know many ppl still put efforts to reach out to him angane and involve him (me included guilty for that) , And he always is like the dear friend tovino very much involved in us , good at making friendships and everything we consider him to be like one of us
What's stranger is that, despite all this, if he texted me tomorrow, I'd probably still talk to him normally. I don't know why. Maybe because I never got closure. Maybe because I never understood him, and I was feeling he's detached or numb i don't know
It made me realize that I've met a few people like this in life. They come into your life like a breath of fresh air, make a lasting impression, and then quietly drift away without explanation. Years later, you're still wondering what happened, while they seem to have moved on effortlessly.