NaTTu..A friend that i didnt have

Nostalgia is limited to the better memories, and I guess everybody likes to reminisce about the ‘best days of our lives’.Recollection of school days and school friends,inevitably wipes off every piece of unpleasant reality during those golden days.
Last year i wsnt feeling great before final exams, m banking on d reason being pre-university exam effect.So went through some of the phone numbers in my cell and called up a school friend.She told me that she had met Nattu.'Oye ye Nattu kaun hai yaar',sudden flashback and a picture came in my mind.One of my classmate got bullied in school because he was fat and very quite.Everyone hated him.Never tried out to find the reason 'WHY'.He hardly had friends.Other classmates used to tease him.
I still remember misplacing my physics record file(which i decided i hd lost 4 gud) somewhere just before ma board exams.We had barely exchanged a few sentences during our 6 years together,and here he was helping me complete it.That day i got to know he was interesting company.Wondered why everybody disliked him so much in school.Even if HE WANTED TO BE, no one wanted to be known as Nattu’s friend.When I jog my memory I just remember Nattu as the fat, rich kid who was inevitably given time off during music lessons.The music teacher had summoned enough courage to tell Nattu’s parents that there was not a single note out of the seven that he could ever sing.I never used to talk to him in school because my friends never liked him.
Few days back i got his contact number, so called him up.We talked about all the classmates we were in touch with. I discovered rohit is in NIT,shivani is doin fashion designing,nikhil doing mbbs.Wow!! We were suitably inebriated when we finished talking about everyone in school and the cute girl Jasmine.The boy had a BIIIIIIGGGG crush on her.After talking to him for more than an hour a question arose in ma mind 'Is he being so friendly to me because he has no friends even now?' I don’t know. Maybe I AM BEING just PARANOID...
I feel, at times,we don’t love to explore opportunities. Most of us live in the Blind Arena, when there is a sudden flash we end up getting reversed or we completely open up.
I feel during school and college, once we have 2-3 good friends, we never give others a chance. But later in life, we sometimes discover that those others can be great company and even potential friends.
I just think we are afraid and highy scared of the crowd around us.'What the hell will they think of me if i do this and dat'.And sumtyms we are just too blissfuly living in our own beautiful world and ignore the fact that other people(not so normal people according 2 us) might be eligible enough to enter it..

Manali..