Retrouvaille - Experiencing joy of rediscovery.

Have you heard of the word called "retrouvaille". 

Most of us would not have heard though.

Retrouvaille means 'The joy of meeting of finding someone again after a long separation; a kind of rediscovery.

 

I am going through and experiencing retrouvaille. 😊

It’s been 24 hours that I spoke to one of my childhood friend. Just visualize if you are speaking to someone beloved after nearly three decades ~ 30 years. And the emotional delight and fervent fondness wasn’t just in speaking, it was in discovering that the frequency remains the same, the maturity of 30 years of growth is in sync and the ecstasy of warmth is amplified and is playing in perfect harmony.  

Distance has never killed the connection. The time gap has not slayed the correlation. No interaction has not slaughtered the tenderness of our friendship.

It was in early 1991 that I moved out of my elementary school to high school and that was the last time I saw her. We never had phones as what is today, nor emails to be in contact. Things moved on and indeed we did not even realize that we should be in touch. Seems like - what is networking today is got introduced only because of technology and commercialization.

 

Innocent days, Virtuous thought process, pure souls, naïve lifestyle and clear skies above.

We had spent hours together at school. Probably we never understood the word ‘future’ then.

We never knew the definition of the word called ‘Challenge’. All we might have thought was only of the gigantic word called ‘exam’ and ‘tests’. I am sure that it wasn’t as tense setting as today.  What is called ‘responsibility’ today was unstated then.  

 

I still remember that we had played a skit which went ultra-popular and we were told to play and present it multiple times on various platforms. And we were only two of us who played. There was this science day where we did experiments together.  There were days where I went to her home to collect notes if I was absent from school. There was a day where I lost my way to reach her place, and the next consecutive time, she picked me up from a place to take me, and from then on, her home was easy to access. Even today, she might not stay in the same building and road though, but I purposely go in front of her place just to experience that I was once there. Call it nostalgic, sentimental, or yearning.. the sensation is relishing.

 

Currently, she stays in the western world and I am in the east, as we had a video call… I kept on gazing at her same bubbly face, the same affection being showered and I could not control few sparkles from my eyes and as they say – when you are overwhelmed, neither can you express in words nor in any form of language.

 

Language has barriers to express all that you feel. It was yet again that moment for me yesterday that I could not talk, express, or have a tête-à-tête. 😊

 

But, I am sure there is a reason why we are reunited. There is a reason why connexion got reconnected. And more so, with same symmetry.

 

Thank you, Anitha, for bringing in the momentous joy and taking me back to my childhood. Along with a few you predominantly stand out.

 

My heart spoke much more than my tongue.