Friendship!

Several people who have read my previous blog came up to me and let me know that they like some of my blogs and some they have different views. Which is always good.

I was thinking why do they come up to me and why do they need to share . There should be something that drives them . Truly unrelated people who come together and try to be together accepting each one as is. It can only be friendship.

A lot can be written on this topic but will try to add my two pence.

If iam what i am it is definitely due to m friends a true tribute to all of them .

Goldi as Gaurav is fondly called, Brat as Bharath is called, Dinks as Dina is called,Vags as Vagmi is known and the entire college gang which has so far shown what friendship can do .

I still vividly remember Goldi , the ever brilliant came into our first class , sat in the front row.Typical of these studious guys , i was in the middle . Then Brat et all . We formed our gang , coming from very different backgrounds and with different ambitions in life . Its very suprising how we gelled together and are still glued together even after eight years post college.

They said college is different work life can be different. Well not truly, it can be as enjoyable as college or even better if you get good friends. My first friend , Ra Venki , Kushti aka Jr Venki , Goks , Uduppa aka Anand, Suku aka Sukumar,Chitrappu aka Deepak, Major sir aka Sundar Sir , Vazhai aka Vinod , Kutta aka Shenith, Mapla aka Harish , Goindsamy aka Anand, well the list is endless .

So many people , varied back grounds, different mind sets but whatever it takes , they all help each other at times of need.

I still remember that first week of June 2001 , when i needed 7000 Rs urgently to payoff some one . Ra Venki saw me in the verge of tears that night speaking to my mom on a borrowed cell phone . He came up and asked what's the problem . As anyone would typically do , i did evade that question by saying nothing but he insisted then i broke down.

He ran upstairs brought me a cheque and it was written 7000 favouring me .I was just dumb struck and could barely comprehend what was happening and why would someone who knows me barely for couple of weeks do such a thing . It was that day that the friendship blossomed which i cherish to this day.

Another vivid incident that i remember is when Goldi and Brat played a trap to make me comfortable speaking with girls , i would not delve into what they did , they have done many of such stuffs and have ensured that i get comfortable . They had so much of interest on me getting out of the fear of speaking to ladies(girls) that they kept tabling that as an agenda whenever we met. Well thanks to those guys that iam able to keep up their names and also is good in a sense.To this day i quote that incident wherever possible.

The list of incidents are endless but its always positive ,even a bad situation is soothed by a close friends shoulders.

Iam always grateful to all of them and friendship is invaluable let us not have ego and arrogance play a part to spoil it . Because once a gem is cut improperly its never going to be a gem and lost is lost forever.

Bow my heads to great friends! I might think of writing part 11 of this as well because i have missed so much and lots more can be written now that there are new found friends as well!!!