The Glimpses of a friendship
Tuesday, May 16, 2006
This represents the various faces of a friendship that i cherish with a cool friend of mine with whom i can express my feelings and who is kind enough to listen to my creative dreams !!!! And since the friendship is more than a year old, it wud be nice in penning down the various things that happened.I have tried my best not to twist anything and what i have written is sincere and is an image of the friendship through my eyes.
the beginning
" Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive, and it is only by this meeting that a new world is born."
It commenced on a saturday afternoon. I went to the office after visiting a friend of mine.Then I saw this girl, my project mate sitting in her cubicle, scanning through something. Thought of saying a hi and went towards her.
I told hi and with a smiling face she responded back.I should say, that was one of the beautiful smiles i have ever seen. My only idea was to have a casual enquiry and leave.Even she expressed the interest and slowly we started speaking and it began with the casual enquiry regarding work, about the location, about the project and so on. Soon, we found ourselves revealing the personal hobbies and interests.
With utmost interest, she showed some snaps of her sister and her friends. It was time for me to leave and with a bye we parted for that day....
I felt, that was the beginning of a friendship. But i didnt speak much with her in the office during those days. As there was work always and we were handling different modules in the project, there were less chances to interact.Some of us, including her got into an idle state, or freepool, the more technical name for the same. Those were the days where we had enough time to talk about many things that added dimensions to the friendship. Also, we used to go together in bus after office. And i think i taught her to do the adventurous feat of travelling in a BMTC bus !!
Time came, when i got released into another project and had to change my cubicle and moved to ground floor. She used to come to my cubicle and again, went together. It's nice to think about those days now. I felt happy when she would come over and there would be some discussions on the way back home and some funny incidents.
a small issue
For a few days, work was hectic for her and couldn't respond to me much. In my stupidest of all thoughts, i came up with the idea of sending a mail to her asking the reason and i guess that had a tone of a slight concern and complaint. I called her up that night and she was really upset about what i had done.
I realized the mistake -- Without knowing the reason,i was making somebody in an uncomfortable position. Eventhough the matter was small, i was skeptical and a bit afraid in the state of the friendship. I sincerely didnt want to loose the friendship which made me write that mail.And now also sometimes i make some unknowing mistakes like that but not that pronounced like the former.And after that incident, we didn't go together much in the bus like we used to do.
Missing her - and the present
And as days passed by, things got sorted out and we were again speaking in the normal ways. I got a surprise from the resource allocation which was the deputation to chennai. When i said that to her, she was initially laughing and i even i did the same.
I used to send her mails from there and also intranet messaging. So i was missing her badly during those days like i do now....
I'm now at onsite pretty faar away. Still we try to keep the friendship alive through mails and phone calls. I am waiting to get back and see her and have some fun like those initial days !!!!! And most importantly, need to go out for a lunch
Dreams -----
It feels so wonderful after speaking to her or after reading the lovely mails that she sends.Couple of times we went out for lunch and it still lingers in my mind. Those were all occassions where we could speak freely and have nice time together. And i do have a small selfish thought here - i wish that she sends me mails everyday !!!
I should say that i miss her a lot and i feel she too does miss me sometimes. If she doesn't, i wish she would.....
I would love to have this strong bond of friendship within us for many years to come...................................
2 comments
You knw what Arun...any friendship rather any relation in life is purely the way you take it, nurture and cherish it !! I think you are blessed that god has given you the ability to recognize a good friend in a swarm of people !!
ReplyDeleteYou are a person who can derive happiness from small things in life...and trust me this is going to take u on a long journey of happiness...u will enjoy life to max and wud appreciate ur blessings...
I think when God made human being...he wud hv thought of a mind like yours. He would hv said to mortals.."I will give u lots of problems, loads of tensions n responsibility....bt then i wud give u some moments of happiness, which u have to identify...n u wud always be happy..." !! Bingo...here u r a perfect example of that... :)
I m ur frnd wud b humbled when she will read this blog...that she has such a good frnd for her!! I knw u will frown at word "humbled"...well thatz obvious...ifu hv such blessings in ur life and when u r realized of them..it gives a humbling effect!!
I think ur frnd is lucky to hv a frnd like u and i m sure this frndship will continue to florish..I wud pray for that !!
Thanks for sharing these beautiful glimpses of ur frndshi...well i wud say the credit goes to ur amazing writting skills also...:-D
First of all, lemme tell you one thing.... i don't know if you've noticed it. People walk into our lives every now and then, most of the times when least expected. They make impressions in our hearts. Sometimes they stay and sometimes they leave. The latter is the most difficult part but we have no other option other than play that part too.I do agree with shakespere. Remember he called life a stage where we are merely actors. Hold on to what have and what we can. Never lose hope. Nothing is impssible, even in a relationship. You just have to have that faith.
ReplyDeleteand one more little tip:
be good at heart, be sincere and live life as your heart tell you to...........
Keep smiling