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..

Though,i would say,being judgemental is the worst thing one can do and would profess that judgemental people put me off immediately,let us face it,we all do it,not because we want to do it,but because our brains are simply tuned to do so by default.
What is a judgement?A judgement or a conclusion can be made about things or people.It is a function of input data,which is nothing but our pre-knowledge about a certain thing or person specifically or the generic stereotypes and prejudices instilled in us by way of society.For example,When someone you meet, for the first time,doesn't speak the perfect version of the queen's language like you do,with the diction that's taught in convents,one would immediately think,arre,gaanv waala hoga,must be stupid,For all you know,the guy can be a super genius at anything he takes up.We go to a shop and ask for a pair of levis,the shop guy gives you a locally made pair of jeans,your brain immediately rejects it,assuming its of an inferior quality,as it is a prejudice that has been reinforced inour heads through a million advertisements on the television and hence the judgement that it is, and will be bad,without even giving the pair of jeans as much as a chance or thought against levis.Our brain functions like a computer,and based on the data given,it gives a particular output,which is nothing else but OUR own,PERSONAL INTERPRETATION of the given data,based on what we knowand all of us know,interpretation is unique to every person.
In this age of social networking and instant information,one cannot avoid forming judgements about things,people,their characters,lifestyles and anything at all,however one can stop themselves from being cemented and concreteted in stone about the opinions and judgements they form for the first time and be willing to explore the unknown.

very true...

This was quoted my friend wrt my previous post,about being a rebel and tam-bhram,i find it true and as close to something ive been wanting to say and ve never been able put it down in words..
" we r dysfunctional kids in ruptured society that structures minds n circumstance to not be able to express their mundane n redundant thoughts anywhere except on virtual codes written more often than not purely for the emotional n egoistic satisfaction of having arbitrary faceless strangers who are just as bored reading them for mindless entertainment...."
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