My Dear Friend

This post is about perhaps the favourite person of my college life. May be not always acknowledged, but nevertheless true. She is always there, irrespective of the circumstances I’m in. And she’s omnipresent. Always ready to help whenever you need, even if you don’t ask.

You need a shoulder to cry on, she’s there.

You had a bad day and want to be cheered up, she’s there.

You are not feeling well, she’s there to tend.

You are feeling low, she’s there.

You are feeling like jumping around and singing on the top of your voice, she won’t think of you as a weirdo.

You are wearing some stupid silly dress which you won’t even let you maid wear and you hear someone complimenting you, you know it’s her.

You can actually see your flabs making a tyre around you, she comes and says, “Arrey pagal hai kya? Tera aur mera size same hi hai.” (She’s leaner than size zero by the way!)

You need to get a gift for your crush and its just 15 minutes left for your hostel to close, be sure she’ll come with you.

You’re getting late in the morning but want to put on a particular pair of earrings and you’re unable to do so, she’ll leave everything and help you with it even though she has an exam in 10 minutes!

As usual, you’re late for a party and still unable to decide what to wear, stay assured! She’ll get ready in 5 minutes and pick out atleast half a dozen dresses from your own cupboard which you never remembered having!

Hostel night is about to start in 10 minutes and you want to wax your legs. You haven’t ever done it before and you have heard it hurts like hell. She’s gonna be the one to do it and so soothingly, that you won’t even know when it got started and finished.

You’re missing a particular friend who has moved out of the hostel. Stay assured! If she meets them tomorrow, your message will be conveyed. She never forgets!

You wanna do a French plait for college and you don’t know how to do it. She’ll wake up immediately and start working on your hair. And she will do the same thing for any other hostel girl as well – will skip her breakfast, miss half of her first lecture so that you could go with a French plait to college.

You are having a sudden craving for choco truffle and you ask her if she could come along, she would actually come from whichever part of the city she’s in!

Sometimes I wonder, “Is she for real?” Sometimes she's invisible, behind the scenes, in shadows. But the moment you need her, she emerges. I truly have never seen such a self sacrificing person my entire life. Dear Lord, please bless her – for all she does. And for all she says. And for all she thinks. Infact, she should be blessed simply for existing. Coz people like her make the world a better place to live in.

Ms. G, love you loads baby! You are the best!

XOXO

A New Discovery

Last Saturday, I went out with this senior of mine -- a male senior. I'm calling him a senior just for the sake of it; we are essentially on the first name basis. Actually I had plans of shopping and I called him up to ask the exact location of Lajpath Nagar market. But, as it turned out, he was upset over something. So, I shocked myself by sacrificing my perhaps only opportunity left to shop and asked him if he wanted to hang out or something. I mean, come on, since when did I become the one to set aside my ego and ask someone to spend time? But then, he was upset and... well, he has always been my Agony Aunt so I simply had to be there for him. But being the perfect gentleman he is, he obviously didn't want to ruin my plans for shopping but eventually we decided to go out for a movie.

This may be a trivial thing for many of you but looking at the chaos in my life, it is an important discovery for me. So, I had this amazing time with him and we watched this not-so-amazing movie The Amazing Spiderman. It was pathetically predictable from the beginning to the end. Still, I enjoyed the coke and nachos. And, what I discovered was that it's completely alright to be 'just  friends' with someone from the opposite sex. It's not that I don't have any male friends, I have tons. But some are childhood friends, some are the ones who have asked me out at some point of time and some others are friends of my friends of the second category. There are many more but i simply never went out with them-- alone, that is. So I simply enjoyed the time I spent with him without any qualms.

I love the fact that I was completely relaxed when we decided to meet. I usually have jitters when I'm meeting someone after a long time though I come out as completely confident. ;)

And I'm proud of myself coz I did not go berserk when he asked if we could go for a movie coz the Lord knows I'm not into malls and movies. And I've never been to a movie alone with a guy.

And I feel great for the fact that I did not react stupidly when there was a fight scene between Spiderman and the transformed Dr. Connors. The girl next  to me was clinging to her boyfriend as if her life depended on it and her boyfriend swiftly covered her eyes with his hand. Uff, for crying out aloud, it was just a fight scene; no ghost was coming out of the screen!

And I'm grateful coz I didn't need to speak to him during the movie. Believe me, its not possible when you go to a movie with your boyfriend. He always feels the need to ruin the scenes you wanted to watch the most by telling you something banal which he considers absolutely crucial for your knowledge. Huh!

But the fact I loved the most? Its that didn't need to calm down my nerves over anything. It was just so normal. And I spoke freely of all the people in my life and what's going on with whom and how I would like the things to turn out. It all came out naturally coz I knew he won't judge me or my choices.

So, thanx a lot Mr. R for the awesome time we spent. And you, dear readers, call up a friend of complementary gender today and go out with him/her while I bask in the warmth of my new discovery. Adios!