Life In Delhi

I finally started the lifeless life in Delhi. Finally I shifted to Saket, the happening place in Delhi but still the loneliness that crept in life has bleached my evenings and weekends. I realized the importance of friends around a man. Man is a social animal and everybody craves for company. I hope to have somebody soon around me, at least for the evenings, to interact, to talk to, to laugh with, to cry with, to share dreams, to have fun on Fridays.

Fridays remind me of TGIF that I explored alone in Gurgaon. The uncanny proximity of the guest house to the TGIF caused a tingling sensation in my body and my hypnotized footsteps just followed the way to it. It was a good hangout after coping with boredom in office and a good escape from the dead and depressing room in the guest house. I met some interesting people there. Sitting at the bar stool alone and wanting to talk to the other people sitting next to me I wondered if they also felt the same. We didn’t talk but I could hear the sad whispers of our loneliness talking with each other as they talked about our lives. Sometimes people cannot stop the urge to talk and we ended up talking trivial things or about the FIFA world cup 2006. Interesting it is that there are places where people can talk without knowing each other, without the formal introductions, without obligations, and without involving hearts and souls. It was good fun at TGIF and I made some friends including the bartenders. FIFA on big screen was good and the experience was enriched with the excellent environment at TGIF. The occasional bustling by the guests dispersed the thick cigarette cloud and replaced the perennial rustling whenever a goal is scored or missed. I missed so many people sitting there and I called them to feel protected and to overcome the insecurity that they were no more there for me. I missed Sriram, Anoop, Amol, Sarvesh, and all of them.

I met Alpi and I am heartily thankful to her for delaying her important task to meet me. That was my first evening in Delhi and I called her up to set up a dinner. We had some good talks and time over coffee and delicious Chinese food. I met Nitika also the following week. She looked pale, lean, and sounded low after she suffered typhoid for a month. Looked she was still recuperating from her weakness. She didn’t have anything because she was avoiding outside food for a few days. But it was good to meet her again and to talk to her.

28 June 2006 I met Sajag and Ritesh after two years and had good fun. Imagine meeting somebody after two years and loosing all the contact for those two years including mail ids and telephone numbers. Hats off to IIT Delhi that helped Sajag finding me in two days. No wonder that IIT is number one, their professional promptness really impressed me. We celebrated our get-together with VAT-69.

I am lucky and blessed to have great friends around me. Sarvesh, Khushboo, Nitika, and Nidhi have been so good to me and they have tried their best to help me out in fighting down with my solitude. Either they call me or I call them everyday and I get constant updates from them. I never felt that I am away from them. Sriram called me today from UK and we talked for 15 minutes. Finally he called after a long eon of silence.

Sarvesh called up on the eve of his last day at HFI. He sounded emotionally low and lost but I know that it happens with everybody. People go and people come but life goes on - sometimes affected, sometimes unaffected. He is still lucky to be around with friends in Mumbai.

Nidhi called up yesterday and it was good to hear her again. She was going to Chandigarh for a week to meet her parents. I wished if I could meet her here in Delhi but she landed today and it is Friday here and I am at office. Let me see if I could catch her while she would be going back. She has become such a good friend in such a short duration. Good thing about her is that she always sounded so friendly, positive, and full of life and energy. I could always sense the warmth and concern for me in her voice whenever I had a talk with her. It is always good to have such friends around you who make you to think about them because of their formidable traits.