Wine, music and old friends...

My childhood friend (Lets call her N) finally landed in NYC last week and I have been having a blast re-living all the memories. Me, N and another friend S who grew up in the same building spent a night chatting over wine exchanging notes on relationships, husbands, feminism, in-laws, old times, new life. I don't think I'll ever be as comfortable sharing and baring myself with anyone else but N&S. It was wonderful to catch up and realize how different we have grown up as individuals and yet how easy it is to understand each other. N is definitely the more sensible, calm person and her general sense of fairness and balanced view of the world gets maginifed against my short temper. More laidback and capable of always understanding the other person's point of view even if she doesn't agree. I realized how much I love her and missed talking to her and no one could ever replace the kind of comfort you feel when with old friends.

Last night we had plans to go clubbing with our respective hubbies, but heavy rains played truant and we decided to drink and party at home instead. Am I glad it happened as it was a memorable night with some great conversation. A&D joined us as well and after a few drinks conversation turned to religion and politics. It was so much fun discussing and arguing that I realized recently I had been missing these intellectual conversations. Everyone had widely different opinions and everyone was fighting tooth and nail to defend their's with N and I throwing understanding glances at each other and rolling our eyes at what hubbies just said. Maybe I have been hanging out with the wrong people but I had started to feel that we talk about the most inane things and I usually end the evening feeling that it was a waste of time. Moreover, some people have been really, let me say, not so polite recently and I started wondering if I need all this negativity in my life. However I digress. Coming back to N, we had a grand time last night with cocktails, music and really good company. It was awesome getting to know N's hubby a little better. I'd move lock, stock and barrel to Singapore if only to have more such cozy and delightlfully fun evenings like yesterday!