Friendship Day !!!

I don’t know why people expect so much; when I say expectations, it means a belief that is derivative of past and centered on the future which may or may not sound realistic.

Having said that, anything less than your expectation results in instant disappointment. Somewhere, those expectations have a nature of request or even an order.

Same way, I too expected few things from my friends on a day like this and to be specific - it’s been a complete disappointment, when I didn’t receive any call from my college friends (Pune ppl).

Yesterday night, I was awake till late expecting my phone to ring couple of times. But to my dismay, all my excitement turned into disappointment. Again, first thing I did after opening my eyes this morning at 9AM was to check the cell phone, if I had missed any call or even messages.

The result was more frustrating and now I can’t stop concluding – “no one really missed and bothered to remember me.”

In order to suppress the entire feeling deep inside my heart I again slept with the hope of living those moments in my virtual world. I did see all of them in my dream enjoying the friendship day and there I felt so happy realizing - they still remember me. This is really something, I appreciate all the time - your mind can simulate your feeling in the best possible way. Isn’t that amazing?

Having lived those virtual moments, I left the bed feeling so fresh and then I almost forgot that the morning behind was so disappointing and logged into system to scan the inbox as part of usual week-end in US.

I thought I am fine for the day, but damn expectations knocked the door, making me more frustrated than before.

Dude! Expectations tear your feeling like anything, if things do not work accordingly.

Leaving this matter aside, I thought to wake Amar (roomie) up for an obvious reason, I badly needed someone to talk to, but he was already up thinking about occupying restroom.

I saw outside the window and smiled at the weather. It’s been raining exactly like I witnessed in Mumbai and Pune.

Stupid mind was again dragging me down the memory lane. To get rid of it, I stepped towards kitchen and prepared ginger tea. Perhaps, I could not have expected better Tea than this, which changed my mood exactly the way I wanted.

Right after that, I called Ajit (my Bluetooth bro... don’t ask about this concept, for this I am thanking God all the time). Although we had many things to discuss, but we discussed the stupid gizmos like I-pod Nano and the Blackberry.

While we were on call, my phone beeped twice; I checked to see it was our sweet friend Rashmi and took her into conference call (Thanks to AT&T n/w for the usual long call support lasting up to 1-2 hours between Me , Ajit and Ashish).

For the next few minutes, we discussed, linguistically, how her name sounds different in different language, Bangaluru version was the best we agreed.

Few minutes later, we also took Ashish in conf and there after it became usual battleground ( full of noise) , we giggled a lot , laughs , punches and moreover on top of it the greatest or you can say the best ever PJ’s from our two undisputed masters ( Ashish and Rashmi).

After that, we disconnected. Not sure about Rashmi and Ashish but I guess Ajit went for cooking lunch (courtesy, Bluetooth tech). I too prepared lunch and got busy with normal routine. Hours later, Tuned the song “Tune jo Na Kaha…… (from New York) and started writing this.

Now, I am not feeling as sad as I was in the morning, but still having regretted that even though my friends forgot me why the hell, I didn’t feel like calling them up and wish them.

This is still making me feel a bit low. But then, I surely know I will suppress this too and delete the bad feeling from my mind and heart and would be busy with something that will surely take me in the world of happiness.

At the end of day, I am happy that this way I remembered everyone I know… and on top of it there are lots of people I know as a friend and that makes me feel as I am one of the richest man in the world.

For the benefit of the Global reader - its 5:00 AM IST, 7:30 PM EST, 6:30 PM CST, 5.30 PM MST, 4.30 PM PST and 12:30 AM GMT.