You know how people say that one’s college is the best time that he/she has, and how it’s going to feel like you’ve known people at college for almost forever once that time is over? My life has proved otherwise. College had, without doubt, some, or rather, many of the best days of my life. But I never thought I’d gotten to know many good people for a rather long time. More often than not, I’d felt like I’d almost got to know one person and by that time, college was done. It was a very tragic ending to the conventional “best years of my life” at college.
But by some good deed I’d done in my past life, I got placed at a company and I was put into training at Chennai. When I got there, all I could wonder was-“Uhhh…where are the tamilian people??” Reason: MY CLASS WAS FILLED WITH ANDHRA PEOPLE!!!! Oh I was freaked out (understatement), which brings me, to the point when I heard them speak. Now I know that being a south Indian I’d thought I can at least vaguely understand what people mean when they speak in their languages, but this was almost like a foreign language to me. In the midst of all this chaos, one guy, comes up to me, introduces himself, and asks-“Are you a virgin?” Boy was I going to flip or what! But I managed to reluctantly reply-“Yes, and you’d be surprised how many people in this class would be.” He smiled back and sat beside me. That was, surprisingly my first new friend that I never knew I’d be giving a hi-5 to, in a few weeks’ time. Time passed, and I met more people, and I realised how wrong was I to get freaked at the number of strangers I’d first found when I entered the classroom. The Andhra people turned out to be the friendliest people I’d met in a very long time (exceptions and opinions reserved! Period.). My team mates were all from Andhra as well but they turned out to be the dream team. I was lucky to find these people in my life. I also met, specifically, a few other people-a studious snob who I hated at once but I now love as one of my best friends, two dumb but extremely lovable girls, an irritating “fat guy in the back”, a guy who does a perfect imitation of Navjot Sidhu and a girl from college who I’d never really spoken to(Oh and that guy who i'd met on my first day at training ;)). My list of friends just turned up from my roommates and another guy (who is actually a girl) who was known in class as my twin, coz we were so much alike, to a lot many awesome people. And then it was a long list of events-stupid pointless conversations, loud jokes in the middle of a corporate cafeteria (at times injuring people, even faculty, when we tried to be visual), posing for stupid pictures in malls beside the statue like things they put the clothes on, making fun of people for stupid things we imagine them to have done, becoming the noisiest and most awesome gang in training EVER, I was beyond happy. I was thankful, a LOT thankful, and more.
Then something stupid happened. Apparently lady Luck and I had some tiff, because of which she made a lot of my friends move to another place. My best friends, now an indispensable part of my life, were being moved to a new place. I hated it. But at the same time they wanted it, so I HAD to be happy for them. And I was. They left Chennai, leaving a void in all our lives here that can only be filled those few times they visit us. But it was then that I realised, this felt longer than college. It was only three months, but it felt like I’d spent a lifetime with them. I love them all. And I’m still thankful for these handpicked people that God himself sent to me to make my Life a little bit more AWESOME.
Cheers to those guys.
You’re all awesome!
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