Ved
One of my original crew. Been close since March 2023. Part of the pappu can dance group and a bunch of other group chats that defined my childhood. Ved is the friend where every interaction is absolute chaos -- in the best way possible.
How We Met
Same school, same circle as Palash and the rest. Growing up together, doing nothing together, which is honestly the best foundation for any friendship. Ved was part of all of it -- the group chats, the hangouts, the whole ecosystem of being a teenager with nowhere important to be.
The Visit Coordination Disaster
Okay so here's the thing about me and Ved. One of us is always in the wrong place at the wrong time. The visit coordination is genuinely the most chaotic thing in my life. Let me paint you a picture:
"JUST CAME" "NOOOO" "IM LEAVING 6" "ON 6" "No I am coming"
That's an actual conversation. I show up, he's leaving. He comes to where I am, I just left. We keep JUST missing each other and it's become this running joke that's also genuinely frustrating. Like bro, we are actively trying to hang out and the universe keeps saying no.
We don't even try to coordinate through school trips either -- "we r not going with school" -- we want to do our own thing on our own time. The fact that we keep trying, that we keep planning, that every time one of us travels we immediately text the other "WHEN ARE YOU HERE" -- that says everything about what this friendship means.
The Group Chats
Ved is in the thick of it when it comes to the group chats. Pappu can dance is the one that stands out -- don't ask about the name, some things are sacred. But he was also part of the broader group chat universe that kept all of us connected. Those groups were our social life, our entertainment, our everything.
What Ved Means to Me
Ved is proof that childhood friendships are built to last. Constant visit attempts, group chat chaos, and the shared history of growing up together. We might be in different places now -- me doing my thing, him doing his -- but every time we're in the same city at the same time (which is rare, see above), it's like nothing changed. Everything resets instantly to how it always was.
The distance makes the meetups mean more. When we finally do catch each other, it's not just hanging out -- it's an event.