Those who _always_ say, "sorry, I don't have balance, so I gave miss call" !!

I don't understand why people give miss call on purpose and expect a call back even though they can very well afford to call people and talk.

Its not that they are poorly placed or have very low income or searching for job (with financial constrains) or starving for food. Even though they are well placed and earn lot more than what is required for their survival,  they still give miss call and expect others to call them so that they can save money. I understand those who might have financial constraints and encourage them to give me miss call until perhaps they get well placed. But I couldn't tolerate those who earn well and still give miss call..

Most of the time, the kind of excuse they try to give is, "sorry, I don't have balance, thats why".. When they say that, I tend to ask, "oh yeah.. there is something called 'bank balance' and you are supposed to transfer some from there to your phone".

Ladies and gentlemen (?), if you can buy pizza, can travel in auto-rickshaw or cab, can book bus or train before your journey, can eat in restaurants now and then, spend thousands in buying dresses, have sufficient bank balance at the end of the month, etc etc, you can very well buy talk time also instead of giving miss call and planning to buy a pizza in the money you save by making others spend for you.. After all the other person is also starving and could have a pizza 'at least' on his own money..

And by the way, I have seen few people who always make phone call by spending their money irrespective of me asking them to give miss call because their financial position is very poor.. May be they could be your inspiration !!

-- Paul Arockiam

Still remaining close..!!

It has been more than a year since I talked to someone who had been one of my close friends.

Thinking about it now, I tend to feel that if we will talk again now, we would still talk till the sun rises, laugh till our stomach hurts, walk till our legs faint, drink till the last drop in the cups (of tea).. The frequency of talks or the gap that gets in-between because of the 'limitations' (let me call all the 'ego', 'fights', 'quarrels', 'misunderstandings' etc, as limitations) of practical life doesn't really affect how you feel about someone..!!

We always know what I say is true in love (do we??), but it is true in friendships too :)

Cheers !! (for the ones who still remain close, irrespective of how far they might have gone!!) :)

-- Paul Arockiam