Right in between all the sadness,madness and the mess i am going through right now,came a moment of unexpectedly beautiful surprise.like the french would put it,"tre's bonne surprise"
and to that i would have to say,"vraiement" indeed..
I have a friend,doesn't everybody have one.but this is different,i have never ever met him.i know this sounds a tad bit like a shady B-class bollywood movie,but this is not one of those.
We became friends,very good friends courtesy orkut.
I was a newbie at orkut,and did not for the life of god know how the scrapbook system worked.(but now,i am quite the authority).
This guy scrapped me,and we had a common friend and so i thought,this is not the typical paeodophile or psychoz trawling across the web,searching for unsuspecting victims.
One has to understand that i was passing through one of these low phases,where one has absolutely nothing to do and to make matters worse,i was out of town with my relatives,which essentially means,your connection to the outside world has effectively been severed.
Yahoo messenger was my solace,and i was just discovering orkut.
So,now back to when this one guy scraps me.so i reply back to his scrap,two or three scraps exchanged.At home my relatives plan this trip to another city for a weekend and guess what!thats where the guy stayed.
Normal people under normal circumstances,would have simply not done anything,but i am insane..right...so i give him a call in the middle of the night,the guy is bewildered and doesnt recognize me(how embarassing)..and we start talking..
it was fun..
I never ever for once thought it was weird,till like a few months back when i was thinking about the whole episode and was thinking,"OH My LORD!!!!I DID THAAAT!!"
over the course of time,we became best buddies and continue to remain so,fellow confidante,fellow travellophile(if such a word exists),fellow reasoner.its a beautiful thing we have going on.Its purely platonic and are each others agony aunt and act as sounding board for each other.
Work woes,friend trouble,future plans,discussed it all
Now he is going away to a pseudo continent to pursue his dream.
I wish him all the luck,I know he will do very well.
and coming to the surprise finally,
yesterday i got a package in my name,That never happens,but i did.
It was sent by his highness himself.
it had a book about travelling across europe,for he knows it is one of dreams to hitch hike across the continent wit multiple cultures,multiple types of beer et al..
I was truly moved by the gesture
Inside it was written,
" Vaishu.,
Sweet lovable and unavailable friend!"In a small effort to inspire you and make (or rather enable) you to travel europe 'on the job' and not as a visitor or a mere traveller.NOW.go chase your dream!!make yourself proud."
isn't it adorable.
The book is Neither here nor there by Bill Bryson.

Thank you..