these are the worst days. one by one my friends just keep going away. and sometimes you don't realise the importance of people until they're gone. today i realised maulein's. 4by4 i used to call her or momo (short for ??) or just oye (no name required. i'd shout oye in the middle of the road and she would know!). when she told me that she was leaving i was literally ecstatic. when someone leaves the kind of shit we are into, it gives u a strange sort of happiness..as if its u who is leaving! 7 days later, i'm writing this post. i write when i am sad :(
i can recall every moment we shared together. started from our training. oasis. we were in the same project. maulein. what a strange name. who names their daughter maulein?! before office i'd never had a female aquaintance, let alone friend. and my first impression of this girl was fearful. i saw her as a sardarni who would gobble me up the moment i opened my mouth to utter a word! i was so scared to talk to her. but she was so cool! still i kept my apprehensions and my distance. why take a chance!
after the project we got inducted to the same project again. and thats when we developed some friendship. who says girls and guys cannot be good friends..they can be awesome! over the two years with maulein i have developed a friendship i could only have imagined. in her i always saw that elder sister who could compose me when i was angry and irritated, who could guide me when i was lost and who could encourage me when i was raring to go. over time she became what i call my 'crib' buddy. i would go to her seat and crib about evrything bothering me. the project, the team, the people. and she would listen. i would irritate her and pester her. and she would listen. fat as we both are (she is fatter), we used to go for evening walks. climbing 2 floors of stairs twice every evening! i'm going to miss those talks and those walks. and i'm going to miss her like hell. she made these 2 years bearable, in the literal sense of that word.
now that she's gone, i dn knw whats going to happen tomorrow. vershney and tulsi..u two better stay put.
