In the last 9-10 years that I know her, this will probably be the first birthday without her. 24 th July feels weird as I am not doing any surprise planning. But on such rare days, you get the time to sit back and reflect. We aren’t perfect friends who just admire each other. We still fight and no, not discretely. We fight in parties, we fight in between concerts and we fight for the silliest of the reason. Having said that, hers is always the first ‘I miss you’ message every time I go out of Delhi. We share a world of our own. Since the time we stepped out of our homes and started living on our own- we were never really ‘on our own’. We always had each other. We understood the world together, we formed opinions together, we learnt and un-learnt many things together (Thanks to the somewhat similar upbringing that we both had). And about the years when we were not together – we must have already talked more than once about each and every day of the 10 years before we met each other...