The first time you ever met anyone…..

We’re all supposed to learn from our mistakes……like think about stuff we did wrong and not do it again or try to find what was good in it so that we could say that “at least something good came from it” or look back at it and say…well everything happened for the best….coz you can never predict the consequences…..but what about the times when something great happened to us…we always forget the things that set things in motion….the first instant…as the path forward is so exhilirating that we always get stuck there….

to be specific, i was thinking about the first time i met my best friends in the whole wide world ( which is true as they’re all spread out miles away all over the place ) …….. and my reactions to what happened at that time ….

Prabh : Class 10/11 Senior Maths Olympiad prize distribution. They made us sit in a line so that when the person who was supposed to give us the prizes called us our names we would go in a straight orderly line so that there was no chaos and no waste of time ( Mathematicians are geniuses ) So voila….me and Prabh land up next to each other……Prabh in his most serious tone (seriously dude…i dont even think i heard you laugh for the first two years in dps rkp) asked me and another guy whether we went to dps rkp…and he was thinking of going there……..and after the 3-4 minute conversation everything started…..who knew …..8 years later… we’re like the best friends ever….fate has ways doesnt it

Charu : First year IIT Kgp…well she was in my department after all…so it was inevitable we were going to meet sometime…. the setting central library main foyer….i was sitting doing something when charu comes up to me with this big fat mechanics book ( shames i think it was) and asks me the explanation for some mechanics problem which i still dont know how to solve…(ok guys..we’ve established how big a muggoo charu really is ) …so she completely managed to embarass me as i had no clue what the question was trying to do…. and then introduced herself…and since i was like the shyest person at that time i mustve uttered nothing … have no clue what she mustve thought

Pavi : First year in the spring semester……outside the central library bike keeping area( ok i dont know what else to call it )….Me returning back in the evening to the hall and Pavi was going somewhere and parked her bike there ( ok guys bike = bicycle in kgp)…….and she said “hi sudeep” and before i could utter a reply she just walked off..leaving me dazed as to what just happened….of course everyone knew pavi in first year…but it was surprising that she even would talk to a guy like me…..

Orcieee : Spring semester First year….election campaigning….man i remember this time….. i used to run away from the hall so many times just to escape those boring seniors come and go on about how their candidate was good enough for the president of India and we should cast our vote to atleast get him or her to the g.sec post…….so orcie and charu come to my room and orcie starts this long speech about something and we were all amazed at how well she spoke…seriously orciee…..you should become a netaaa(minister)!!!

hehe i dont know what made me write this…but it was fun remembering how it all happened…..thinking up all the images in my mind trying to trace exactly who said what……wish I’d taken pictures and labelled them as “this is how it all began”…

Life can only be understood backward, but it must be lived forward

~ by lazysud on September 23, 2006.