Time Travel

When was the last time you visited a city for the first time but knew so much about the most popular hangouts, schools, multiplexes, food, the people themselves that it felt like being at home :) ...
About a month and half ago, i decided to go pay a visit to a friend out of town. She being the buzzing correspondent that she had sought out to be, hadnt managed to visit us, her family, in a long time. Without getting into the details of the mad trip that it was… I’ll get straight to the point. I couldn’t get stories about that city out of my head. I traveled into the past…. into other people’s past…. And saw those incidents happen and felt it like I was a part of it. I saw people standing at ‘the most happening’ multiplex getting pictures clicked... pictures that were shown to me half a decade ago. I saw a crazy bunch of students turning the school upside down, led by their head boy… almost a decade ago. I saw lovers who had separated unwantingly meet again and awkwardly hug each other. I saw my childhood best friend party at the army club as a teenager. I saw my college room mate sincerely attend classes with her specs on and I saw my first love trying to be Mr Popular and being quite successful at it.
I was there to see all that I had heard in the past 15years. I felt them around me. And stupid as you might think, one of them was in town that very weekend. The presence was there… for real. The connection of course is long gone in some ways… though not in many other.
The time travel was nostalgic even if I was living others’ memories. But it felt like I was a little too late…. Too late to be a part of their life when they wanted me… too late to understand their childhood coz now it probably doesn’t matter. But too late in my life to go back to those times and wish for them again??