Ok .. time for some philosophical ,sentimental crap ...
On that day while i was busy sleeping on my way to office , I remembered my longest running roommate . One very decent and innocent person with whom I had shared my room for 2 years 8 months ..Just the thought of him bought a smile to my face as well as slight pain.. Smile because he had been a pillar in my life during the 2 years 8 months we were together, being a worthy partner in the crazy adventures which we used to impose on him in Mumbai( including nights spent sleeping on a chair after being locked out) . Slight pain because I was not having any contact with him for past 1 year or so ...I remember the way I had first resented his conservative arrival , on how he used to think ,think and again think and then act and how this thinking business had stopped me from running wild at many times ..
As i got up to hide that tear drop running wild from my eye , I saw the crowd standing on one of the umpteen busstops in Mumbai and I remembered how AK1 had ran to catch a bus for me last week and how AK2 jumped in front of that bus to make it stop since both of them knew I wont be able to catch bus in my tearsome state .
As that incident bought a smile on my face, i gave up my sleeping business and thot of checking on others in the bus ..
It was at that time , I realized that even though my life has always has it shares of ups and downs.. Ups which I had celebrated with lot of people , and downs with some people knowingly , unknowingly helped me navigate. Even though I had been fair to some and unfair with lot of other people. Even though I had tried to manipulate people who had put their trust in me whenever I felt that my course of action was the right way , i cannot deny the indelible mark left by all these on my life and it would be good if I make an attempt to remember all those moments which really made me extremely content about my life ....
So this blog is dedicated to all those
- Angels who helped me experience heaven by being a part of my life.
- Rascals who helped me in my dreams of devising and enjoying hell.
- Victims Who were forced to experience , enjoy/tolerate my presence along with it's quota of impulsiveness , bad jokes , goof ups , mishaps ,clean ups ..
- Humans who helped me realize the importance of being a human ..
And this dedication begins with the Rock On Song ...
· My parents for pretty much letting me do what I wanted to do ( most of the time )
· Dad for enforcing the rule that If I wanted to smoke ciggy or anything ( i assume ganja , hashish etc ) , i should do with my own money and not his ..
· My brother for being an ideal competitor in most of good things ..
· Mom to explain very very early in my life that friends are much more important than the differences which you have with them.
· DG for being the best example for this very early in the life.
· My brother , Princy , NH , SJ , PG , SR and others from that gang whose devilish tricks kept me on my toes till the time I started playing the same tricks on others..
· SG for keeping quite about all my failed attempts to be a devil in the childhood and still keeping quite. I hope , prays she keeps quite.
· M Uncle and Chechi for being the Mr Wilson and Mrs Wilson of Dennis The Menace phase of my childhood.
· SG for that one big jump which still continues to illuminate my life
· SG for all the time spent making tents , catching tadpoles and assuming them to be fishes , running after dacoits on tricycle and wooden horses, hanging on the swing , enacting spider man and spider woman and protecting the world or running of at betaal's entrance during Bikram & Betaal .
· M Uncle for always waiting for me before starting the Diwali festivities .
· RM1 , RM2 , BA , SG , SA1 , SA2 for letting me believe that I can play all my terror tricks safely on them.
· DG and HW for always being there
· R teacher , P teacher , F teacher , K Teacher for being what they were ( ok I am tonguetied ).
· P teacher for taking responsibility of the below bunch of devils for most creative time of their destructive childhood ( or was it the other way round ). This can be termed as beginning of Calvin & Hobbes phase..
· DG , HW , HQ, YR , NB , SM , NN , GM , LG , YB , DP , PD , AG , AN , PH , PS ,AU , DT , HH , PT , PZ , YS , RC , BP for all the time
o Spent running wild in Bhandara on foot , cycles , hand carts , cycle-rikshaws , jeeps , cars , trucks , tempos , horse carts, bullock carts etc etc
o Perched on trees in backyard of my house
o Perched on trees in civil lines
o Perched on Mahal walls
o Fighting of Monkey invasions :)
o Played gadda- gaddi
o Player Chor Police
o Played Nadi-Pahad
o Played Hide n Seeks
o Played football with a stone
o Played football with a plastic table-tennis ball
o Played football with a cricket ball
o Played football with a tennis ball
o Played football with a over-sized cricket ball
o Played football with a volley ball
o Played football with a football ball
o Played cricket with a stone
o Played cricket with a plastic table-tennis ball
o Played cricket with a cricket ball
o Played cricket with a tennis ball
o Played cricket with a over-sized cricket ball
o Played cricket with a volley ball
o Played cricket with a football ball
o War games in the construction plot with brick trains
o Cheered the school football team under heavy rains
o Bunked classes under pretext of cheering the school football team
o Bunked classes under pretext of running for the intra-city marathon
o AG for discovering the short cut in the city marathon track
o Making the Rajiv Gandhi Square the most happening spot in Bhandara
o DG , HW , HQ for the summer 2K run to the football grounds
o K sir for keeping quite about all the volley balls which we used to burst after playing football with it
o K sir for taking in a sporting way when we used to shout his name during the class parades
o DT for the first Arnold movie I ever watched in my entire life. That evening is still fresh in my mind.
· HQ's parents for all the parties which we used to have at their house in the guise of preparing for school events , Independance days , Republic Days , Fun feasts , annual meets , Teachers day etc etc
· And not to forget the annual after exam parties organized in the guise of Id Parties :D
· Q Uncle for showing us how good a person can be in spite of all adversities.
· M Uncle for always ensuring the jeep to carry us to school on rainy days :)
· M Uncle for once forgetting to send the jeep to school after rains and we celebrated by having a picnic on the jail road :D
· All uncles of Friend's colony for letting us use the store room for storing our sporting stuffs
· M Uncle for asking the truck driver ensure that our playing grounds are always flat :)
· MSEB for leaving our area in dark continuously for 3 nights
· All Friend's Colony people who went on a construction spree during our time there thereby always ensuring a ample supply of half built houses for us to play.
· SM1 for all the good time we had in the pretext of running a comics library
· SP Snr for turning Xth maths into an interesting challenge.
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· SP for his regular calls which begins with 'Nitin bhai .. bahoot din ho gaye aapse baat karke'
· RC for coming out of the RK's group when he crossed me on the way
· AB for his innocence. Really dread the moment this innocence will crash into the corporate world
