happy birthday john

around 30 years of a friendship is a long time. i have a photograph of you on my bicycle in exactly the same pose when you were around 12. this is like a hindi film time lapse scene as you morphed from my childhood hero - a sporty, confident, energetic, loving, funny, crazy guy into the handsome, warm, loving, brilliant, sentimental, funny, crazy guy on the pulsar that we first saw together in a showroom in andheri east. one of the best memories i have of it, is me and you driving hard and fast back from new bombay where we had gone to meet your cousin. the wind in my hair and conversations that whipped past us as we sped.