The 3 a.m. Friend
My best friend and I have some amazing 3 a.m. memories. These memories span nearly three decades. We grew up in far away cities but offloading most things going on in our lives and those deeper inside our hearts to one another, was a constant. We started off in the early 90's by writing reams of pages stuffed into postal envelopes and starting the next letter even before the reply arrived, filling each one with all possible mundane and exciting details. And our precise prediction of the date of arrival of postal reply in that technologically challenged era would simply amaze our folks. Times changed. We grew up and branched out farther away following our respective life callings. But our communication remained constant. The world transitioned from letters, to email, to SMS, to messenger services, to wider socially networked sites, and our style of 'offloading' also adapted effortlessly. The topics we freely shared with one another also evolved with the times. From high sch...