Well, Diwali has just gone and we friends celebrated in a grand style, visiting few of our friends’ places who are in US right now. We had all the blast and fun that we never thought of, but in the end the day just made us reminisce those years of engineering!!! I reminisced those good old days which I talked earlier in one of my previous blogs!!!
While, I was just living in the same mood of nostalgia, sitting in train, I saw a guy sitting opposite to me, and his phone rings, he goes on to say “hey ramesh, how are you, long time, what you have been doing and all” later in his conversation (sorry I over heard what I could), I realized he was BE in Computers back in 2000 and 7 years later the entire group of his is in different parts of world some female of his group married a doctor, other a business man and having a son, other guy heading a national dept for his company, then other permanently settled in UK. This all conversation went for like 15-20 minutes, before he got off the train, still talking. From whatever I could hear, I felt as if they have not been in touch since years after engineering
Needless to say, I felt or rather questioned myself, that is this what is going to happen to me n my friends too? Is this the future of a relation that has given me so much love, recognition and affection? Am I going to be so busy with my own self that I would not have time for my friends or would not know about their whereabouts?
These questions kept on running across my mind and I was not able to find a definite answer because when I felt to answer in an optimistic way, I found a definite “NO” to all these questions and thinking pessimistically I found a “YES” and while answering in a practical way, I got an answer as “This could be possible only if I do not take efforts to be in touch with them, this could be the future, if I want it, and if I don’t want this to happen to me and my friends, I would have to take efforts and that extra amount of time from however busy I may be, to be in touch with all of them"
At one instance in time, while thinking I thought, if future would be my wish, then I would not ever wish the same things to happen to my group that happened to the group in reference.
This incident taught me that there are certain questions to which there is no answer at a given point in time, but the answer comes along as and when time passes and the situation really arises, and if you want answer to that question to be in your favour, then you need to work hard on it, rather than moaning at the end of it.
But whatever may be the case with me later, whatever may be the situation, or however busy I am going to be, one thing that I promise to myself is that I am going to be in touch with all of them who mean world to me!!!!
And alas, after deciding what I need to do and finding a solution to those puzzling questions, I took a sigh of relief saying, Thank God, I did not see the future!!!!
