Out of all the days that we celebrate this one is definitely my favorite because it celebrates a relation that wasnt a given nor were we born with it but it was created/found and grew with time..On this auspicious day id like to wish everyone a very happy Friendships day. I know celebrating these kinds of days sounds very hallmarky but i love to idea of taking at least one day out of our busy schedules and appreciating and expressing gratitude towards the people that are so dear to us. And i take this opportunity to do so.. It may sound lame,cheesy,cliched or even borrowed from some movie but i do know that it will definitely be acknowledged by my friends. I dont wish to ramble on ,which it may appear to be so, but i just wish to be as candid as my limited knowledge of language , my limited attention span and my miniscule patience to type permits me to be. The best part of being/finding a friend is that we always make friends with people being who we are and are accepted for it . I would definitely say that not only are my friends my best valued assets but also theyre a testimony to my existential being and of being who i truly am. They say life is not measured by the breath you take but by the moments that take your breath away but for me ill always measure life by the moments that i have laughed, cried,done stupid stuff, fantasized ,planned horrible things, hated, loved and shared with friends. Id like to take a moment and thank some of the amazing people that have touched my life and made it worth living... To some of the people who arent in my life as of now.. I am not sure what went wrong or perhaps i am.. It may be the cruel hankering of life or may be just my luck that we arent together or in touch anymore but i do want you all to know that i am grateful for every moment i have lived and every memory i have shared with you.I can say this with absolution that I can never be oblivious to your presence where ever it may be. I can never be just be okay when it comes to your memories or even your topic. i guess what i wanna say is that no matter what we may have all gone through you guys all will always be with me in longing, in pain, in guilt, in severance, in reverence, in memories, in happiness and in love. i will always remember every moment that we have shared and everything that i have learned from you and everything I have received , positives and negatives, from our time together because in every way you have had a great part in making me the man I am now . I have nothing but love, gratitude and respect for each and every one of you and I genuinely hope that you are doing great wherever you are. To Ajinkya Kotepatil.. wow man I can so vividly remember the day we became friends in the 3rd grade. Our friendship has done nothing but grow deeper and profound since then. I dont think i have shared so much with anyone as I have with you. You have been there for me in every sense of the word. You have been there for me in happier times, in times of agony, in times of ecstasy and also in times where we have laughed like maniacs on the stupidest jokes and yet have come out with something so witty that it still makes us laugh. From kolhapurs fifty cent( majha aai wadlancha haath ani parmeshwarachi saath.. bow wow...lol) to anil kapoors Dhina Dhin tha. I dont think i have shared my passion of movies with anyone as much as you. You know me so well.. Every movie that you have suggested has not only been revered and loved by me but obsessively been watched with new perspective everytime.. Especially the henchman peeing in The dark knight rises.. lol that was freaking hilarious.. You have shared my hatred for stupidity and my hatred for poseurs , you have also hated the people i hate without question or logic. You have been a son to my mother when I wasnt able to perform my duties. I still remember the time we used to study in my room with the ac on and just keep on dreaming about the future.. I really hope that we make all of that come true. I remember us riding the bicycles to school and driving to school in my dads car and also illegally riding my scooty to school and hiding/parking it at a friends place. You have been there even when i shifted my houses and cities. You have traveled hundreds of miles just to see me when i have asked you to do so. I have enjoyed emulating actors and accents and laughing all night with you.I thank you for giving me the coolest nicknames.. especially abs.. it is so universal almost everybody calls me that now. I also want to express my immense gratitude for being there during my heartaches. When all hopes and logic failed it was your incognito trip to karad that revived me and helped me get over my fears and heartaches. I truly am lucky to have known such an awesome person like you and you have never let me ponder on the fact that I am an only child because you have been more than a sibling to me.. as the 7th grade aj and abs would say we are DBs. I know I can be a chore coz i never listen to some of your advice but i want you to know that I will work on everything you have asked me to do. You truly are an inseparable part of my life. To A V Patil Anuj Bhava kai bolu me.... I know youre younger than I am but i do not know a person who has an older brother care for him like you have cared for me. I appreciate everything you have done for me. I am grateful for the way you stand up for me even when it against someone you love or someone important. I appreciate the way you always make me seem so cool and you make me realize not only my good qualities but my self worth. It is so awesome to see you blazing and ready to kick anyones ass when they even hint at disrespecting me . Hell you are even ready to kick someones ass when i just tell it to you jokingly. I still remember the day we became friends as if it were yesterday. How we danced like crazy at the Dil Se festival and how we would go crazy in the theaters while watching a movie. You have given me the best trips of my life. I cannot even chose one because every trip has been so amazing. The goa trip part one when i was flaming with fever and had lost my appetite, I just pointed at a tandoori piece and said that looks delicious and you walked all the way to the ATM, that was miles away from where we were , barefoot and took me to the restaurant and ordered whatever I wanted and we went on a carnage. The kolhapur trip where you supported my gawking at that chick and supported every fantasy(decent) that i had. Then in spite of being hungry and craving kolhapuri rassa you took me to kfc just coz i wanted to have kfc. I also remember the awesome photosessions that we had at kfc. The mumbai trip where you took me to the mla hostel and showed me a life of true luxury supposedly lead by the pudharis. We would just drive around mumbai city at night and you showed me every road every building and every crevice that was worth seeing.We would drive on till 6 in the morning and you would arrange food for me whenever I asked you to. The nashik trip.. where you suffered with me through the actions inflicted by a horrible person and yet you managed to show me a great time. You have always made me conquer my fears and showed me how pointless they can be without disrespecting or disregarding my fears. You have given me a new path in this life even though you know that i wanted a different destination. You have really made my mother proud of me. I also thank you for giving me ALTA VISTA DEVELOPERS . We can now be my our own bosses yet manage to have the same fun that we used to. You have even shared my fixations and out of this world wants. We have literally found humor in the most unlikely places and yet managed to laugh our asses of like crazy. You have taught me so much about so many things I couldnt even begin to list . Whatever respect and amazing social life I have in karad, I owe it all to you, You have also let me enjoy free gym/spa/steam baths/cardio/swimming and shared one of the most awesome moments there , making working out a fun experience.. You have also given me numerological advice in every situation.I dont think I am that emotionally and physically(our weird habits an fixations) in sync with anyone as I am with you.. Hell even our happiness and heartbreaks were in sync.May be thats why when people see us they assume we are siblings. especially in sangam, and i take nothing but pride , privilege and honor in it Nobody has believed in me with such vigor as you have.. You make me feel like a rockstar.. We have embarked upon a beautiful journey together and I assure you i will see it through the end and we will achieve everything we have talked about and I hope we continue this beautiful professional relationship and most of all our friendship.. To Bharatkumar Thanvi.. Bhai aap to mere guru ho... I havent seen a more hard working, persevering and willful person like you and every day i get to know and learn so many things from you. I really take pride in the fact that our friendship has stood the test of time , amongst other things. You have been a part of my life that is the most dearest to me. I am so ecstatic in knowing that we share the same dreams and passion. I still remember our collaborations in school. How you were offered a small role in a skit and yet you took it for me. We have had an amazing creative relationships since then. One of the best memories I have shared with you definitely includes our farewell night at school. I remember how I was abusing our school for being monotonous and conforming when it came to giving out prizes and then bam they announced my name for the prize in excellence in drama. The first thing that automatically happened was my eyes were looking for you and i saw you abusing me.. lol.. and then bam they announced your name too. I swear i have been the least jealous of you at that moment even though i was sharing something that was soo important to me because i know it was going to lead to a long creative relationship. I really dont think anyone can make fun of even the most magnificent thing like you can and the best part is what you make as a sarcastic comment is so true . Nobody has that perception the way you do. I admire your outlook in life. You are the only person that will tell me the way things are. You will not sugarcoat it nor will you make it depressing. You will just show me that there is no downfall to anything and that we will achieve what we have set out to achieve. You are the standard equilibrium with which i measure my capacity to things and the probability of things to happen. Another amazing memory was 10th grade. Every day in the 10th grade was amazing because of you and our shenanigans as bench partners . I remember how we were as captians and how we had divided our duties. The best (worst for some people ) duty was that we had bathroom duties and would absolutely not let anyone in after the recess. I remember and crave the transcending time we spent in writing skits. How we would have an idea and just by laughing our assess off we would create some hilarious spoofs and skits. Every word that came out of our mouth was a witty one liner. I dont think I am that creatively enlightened with anyone as I am with you. And i owe you big time for being there with me in mumbai through some of the toughest times. I have irritaed you, angered you, made you crazy and yet you were still the same way which really makes me admire your resilience.I really hope we can get together soon and make some amazing creative stuff and venture in to the world we talked about on our desks during the lecture... I really owe you so much and I truly hope you remain the same person you are and are in my life till the end.... To mr Ganesh Yadav a.k.a mr bong... I dont think I have met a crazier person than you in my life. The things we do and talk about will definitely have people question our sanity. Every idea that i have thought with you has been totally insane and yet it has given us the best laughs. The way you have cared for me as a friend is beyond description and the way you have cared for me professionally is something i cannot even fathom. I remember when we were at our plot and i was resting in our shed and you had worn my floaters/slippers and i came to check on the project barefoot. The first thing you did was remove the slippers in the scorching heat and made me wear them even though your legs were incinerated in the heat. You wanted me to rest as you took on all the responsibilities. Even when it rains , your umbrella automatically goes over my head even if the rains drench you to the point of making you sick. I have more than gratitude for the way you adjust our work schedules just so I wont be famished. You take care of my every absurd comfort at work and in karad. You even take care of my weird sleeping timings and my afternoon naps. You always go to work early and handle things so I can be late and bring my lunch with me. You even let me go easy off work and so many times let me go home for every reason I give you. You let me go home to watch my lord play cricket, hell you even let me go off just so I can rest and you never call me back at work until I have had a full detoxing rest. You even go to the restaurants/places I wanna go just on a whim. You do crazy things with me in even sophisticated places , not caring what people think, just so that we can have great laughs. You care for my comforts more than anyone WOWW...I am so overwhelmed and amazed by your gestures and i dont think i could ever thank you enough for them but I do know that you know in your heart that I am grateful and thankful for everything you have done for me. It is said that the fasting thing is the speed of light but i think the fastest thing is the rate at which you go from being sophisticated to absolutely and unabashedly insane. Be it racing with frog, playing stupid badminton behind anujs house or even fantasizing about our own funerals... You truly are the most amazing kind of insane.. Hence the name BONG... You truly are a unique person and a specimen that can never be replicated and I genuinely hope you remain the same throughout life and it would be an honor for me to be besides you in every moment and every incident, as your friend colleague and brother in happiness, sorrow and insanity. BHAVAA TU LAI BHAARI AHES..... To saint dnyaneshwar... I know the world refers to you as mauli but you have been so much more to me than that. You have been a friend , guide and mentor through your teaching and through dnyaneshwari. It just seems like you speak to me when i read the Dnyaneshwari and you know everything about me and yet you always forgive me and believe me. You make me feel closer to my father. You also give me inundated advice yet you make me understand every meaning of everything that happens around me. You show me the brightest paths on the darkest roads, You illuminate my heart with the brightest lights of transcendence and tranquility even during the darkest times. I hope you remain in my life always and you keep loving me the way you do through your knowledge and what i can hope is through wisdom.. To the almighty..... I know i can be a chode sometimes and say not so nice things about you but it is only because i have been conditioned with a heavy dose of bollywood drama where the actor comes in your temple with a Khush toh bohot hoge tum aaj or the actress bangs her head at your step till she gets what she wants... But i know that you truly know what lies in the deepest and the most remote corners in my heart and that is nothing but pristine, ethereal and pure love for you. I have worshipped you through your idols as a god, through my mother, sister, a special person and the goddesses as a mother, through the gods of clan and my father as a father but i also know that along with being in my heart and having my back, you walk besides me as a friend. You have always given me something better when i havent received the thing i asked from you. I cannot being to thank you enough for everything you have given me.. Especially my parents, my friends, who I am and the recent project. I know youre not supposed to be greedy but i hope you give me the strength to achieve more.. I know that you are my ultimate salvation but i also know that you will let me live, enjoy and guide through the journey i want to take till i reach the final destination.......
Posted on: Sun, 03 Aug 2014 17:46:57 +0000
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