It was a pongal day in Chennai and visiting the temple was mandatory as pongal is the very much celebrated festival in Tamil Nadu. I headed to the temple with my friend, took blessings from the God and was observing the surroundings. Then a group of children playing around grabbed my attention.
They were completely strangers to each other just an hour back and they glued to each other within minutes they met and they were interacting with each other as if they have known each other from years! This made me to think a lot.
During our childhood, we might also have done the same. And now, we think 100 times before we open up to any person we know. So, when, how we changed? I guess we start restricting ourselves when we start growing up. We forget to be ourselves, we start behaving as if we're matured, we start judging the people we meet. We fall for someone, we try to impress them, we'll be desperately in need of some best buddies but not able to find. That was what used to happen with me too.
Some look very much cunning, some make me boring, some are too much innocent, some will be too much studious where it was too rare scenarios that I attended the classes! Some will be always busy in gossips, some will be over talkative. And I had this weird attitude of getting to know them too early and that's why I was always preferring to stay alone after my PU days. I was always avoiding the interaction with any person. And in the same mentality I entered the land of koils!
As soon as I entered Chennai I liked it a lot since the roads were reminded me of the way to my grandma's house! Since my grandma's house and Chennai both were the coastal areas, I got connected to it very quickly. I used to like the food, people, culture, and the sunny weather too! It was really a wonderful journey of 2 years! I'll write about this in my coming write ups.
When I was seeing my friends, my relatives, coming back to home from office with a completely stressed out mind, I never thought my workplace would be extremely different! I never got Monday sickness. I had almost all the colleagues who were of my age only, who just finished their graduation and entered into the corporate life. So, everyone of us had the spark of excitement inside us.
As always, I again kept distance with them! But instead of staying away this time, I started becoming close to everyone. We had innocent, over talkative, gossipping, dominating, silent and all kind of people in the group. Yet I liked them a lot! And this time I couldn't stay away from them!
We were crazy like anything. We teased each other, we scolded, we laughed together and we became the shoulder to cry on when any of us were broke also! We roamed like vagabonds, we ate like we were fasting for a long time and we were a lifetime memory for all of us! I always heard from my friends that the work-life will be a complete hectic and all of your enjoyment will be gone. That's why usually people feel that after their study days their all happiness will be gone. Maybe some guy with Monday sickness only might have told 'student life is golden life'!
I got to know that if you have a group of good people surrounded by you, you won't feel lonely anymore, you will be the child again, you'll start cherishing each and every moment you spend with them, and you'll start feeling like they're your destiny! I always feel that the God gave me those beautiful souls and this much love and care more than I deserve ever!
So, don't ever try to make friends. Friendship koi revision thodi na hai jo karni hi hai! Be yourself, one day you will be with somebody who make you to feel like your friendship lasts till doomsday!
