Always cherish friendship in life……

From our kindergarten days when we start our little world of social activates we always look out for some good friends. With whom we play games, share Tiffin and sometimes fight for little things. We are unaware of the facts that we are building the most treasured relationships on those formative years of our lives. We develop some of the key attributes of our identity from that time onwards. It is quite unlikely that those close good buddies will remain connected in your professional days too. But thanks to today’s social networking innovation few days back I got one friends request one of best school buddies in Face-book who is doing his masters from some UK university. It was more than 23 years we are not in touch before I got the friend's request isn’t it surprising to you all.

I am blessed in this domain as during my boarding days in R. K. Mission I got around number of good friends with whom we shared 24 hours. We enjoyed the study hours, games competitions, foods, festivals and many more activates. Those seven years are golden period of my life. Our batch was constituted by hundred brilliant individuals. Each one of them have some special quality may be they come from north-east or may be from different caste or religion but we stay at those boarding Dhams as brothers. Still now few of us are still connected and try to catch up in the puja days together to pass some quality time.

In my technical educations for four years I encountered few really awesome individuals. Some of them came from really lower middle class family with lots of pressure to secure one good job after completion of four years engineering studies. Their commitment and hard work really inspired me in life. Those tense moments before semester exams, inter stream cricket matches, college feast, college beauties J class bunking, class boycotts before final year placements…Really those are very event-full days. We formed one small same minded buddy group names as “BHAI –TEAM”. We enjoyed our outing to Digha and Sankarpur by Sumit’s new Car. It was phase when we started to move from boys to manly zone. Our first smoke and booze are really thrilling experience. Some of my friends have their first crush….few of them were successful but some of them were heart broken….Now I really feel for them..:-)

Few of my peers told me that in professional space every friend is a competitor. You will not find good friends in the corporate world. But I want to say that they were wrong. May be the number is less if you compare that with school and college days but still I got some gr8 friends here too. Some of them are in different companies or may be some other country with their family but still whenever we get chance we interact with each other and with the gr8 invention of social networking sites we can share pictures, videos and keep in touch every moment.

In today’s fast life if you take some time out and think about those golden childish days it will give immense pleasure. Some will contradict with my view and tell that no one have that much time after long working hours and keeping those long list of family commitment ‘FRIENDS’ word is out of life now. May be I am from old school book thinking individual who still believe friendship is one of the best relationship of our entire life. Their may be some rough moments or misunderstanding or ego clash between us but after all we are friends those who shared our dresses, meals, sunglasses, t-shirts, feelings, music, ideas, notes, good and bad news that happened  during our small but quality association. I want to thank all my friends for their important contribution in my life. I learnt a lot from each of you all and like to thank you all.

Wish you all rocking 2011!!!!!

- Cheers