Let me start with a quick, small rhyme
As I begin with, “Once upon a time”
I met a girl who was not so shy
Chirpy with her spirits always high
Stuck I was; with her to be,
We were as different as one can be!
I thought this will be a small tale to end
But alas she became my one true friend.
Life.
The existence of an individual.
People have their own definition of life. Some say life is
like a box of assorted chocolates. Some believe it is a theatre with all of us posing
as actors, playing out our roles in some grand play prepared by the unknown or
better termed as God. And then some very deranged philosophical ones say it is
just an illusion.
There are so many inspirational quotes lying around everywhere
teaching us the meaning of life. ‘Life is
what you make of it’, ‘When life
gives you lemons..’ or ‘Life isn’t
perfect’ and so on.
I say life is right now, right here. Life is living every
moment the way you want to so there is no room left for regrets. Life is there
for you to make mistakes and then learn from them and then make new ones all
over again. Life is all about friendship and love.
But I never thought like this until I met her.
She entered my life as just a mere acquaintance but the bond
we share now is so strong that not having her around to coax me and sometimes irritate
me, is unimaginable.
She is the perfect opposite of me with her beautiful features,
wide smile and really tiny eyes. I have never seen a girl as fond of camera as
she is. And she prefers being in front of the lens rather than behind.
Vivacious and lively, she can easily fill the room with her laughter and super
loud voice. Starting a conversation is no biggie for her be it her boss or boss’s
boss or a complete stranger she meets on the train. Drama, theatric entrances
and perfect nonsensical jokes is what makes her so endearing. If just chatting
away for hours could pay, she would be a billionaire by now. I have yet to meet
someone who has so many crazy dreams as she does. She is truly the perfect
embodiment of Jab We Met’s Geet; a
living, breathing and blabbering example of that fictional character.
Just when I thought that she just had one passion, and that
was to talk and just talk, I figured out, that she is one of the people
responsible for all the fashion retails’ booming sales figures. Just one word
to describe it all. Shopaholic.
So now she was Geet + Amy Adams’ character from that chick
flick Shopaholic. And boy that is some combination!
You know the first time I met her, I being idiotic at times,
had completely formed an opinion about her and almost made it clear that I didn’t
like her. It was I guess fate’s way of showing me the finger at being judgmental
that we ended up working in the same team in the office. And slowly I realized
how terribly wrong I was about her.
Yes she is still crazy, chirpy and maddening to the core, but
she is a gem of a person.
She values friendship so high on her relationship meter that I
am not amazed she has such close friends in her life.
There was a time when I was not in any mood to let anybody in
my private life, except her. She pulled me out of my shell and made me accept
that I was equally silly and crazy as her (in a cool way btw)
She is my one confidante in the office; someone who I can
rely on completely to get me through a bad day. Her filmy dialogues and stupid
jokes completely cheer me up and I forget what the issue I was mulling over was.
We have our own routine back in office, our inside jokes, gossip
to discuss, people to hate, the silly theories we chalk out, the random coffee
breaks, lunches, over the top dramatics, outbursts of singing Hindi songs,
goofing around and everything else friends do.
I am glad that fate intervened that day and made me meet the
real her. We are not at all alike in tastes, whether it be choice of pet (her
cat, me dog), choice of spending money (her clothes, me books), choice of
favorite actors (her salman, me SRK FTW!) or even choice of beverage (her tea,
me coffee) and yet we have been through problems and have dreams and hopes
alike.
It has been a year to our slowly evolving friendship. We both
know each other’s flaws and we accept them with love and affection.
People have these different labels for friends. Close friend,
office friend, 9 AM coffee friend, 3 AM agony aunt friend, bar-hopping friend
or even crying-over-exes friend. But guess what I got a complete package in my
half mad slightly mature very sweet friend.
She taught me what “a
friend in need is a friend indeed” phrase really means.
I like being organized and having a plan in head, but she
taught me how much fun being spontaneous can be. This free spirited,
makes-her-own-decision woman just freed that slightly nervous girl and I will
always be thankful to her for this.
I will just end by quoting the Narnia world creator C.S
Lewis- “Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art...
It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things that give value to
survival.”
I value this unnecessary, unexpected, out of the blue
friendship. I hope she does too.
