Memories from the golden years of my life (13)

Well ... the golden year did not seem golden right just now. In fact, when I look back, I would perhaps remember these moments as the darkest moments of my life ... it seemed to me as if I will have to let go of my dream ... of doing my MBA from IIM ... Yes! .. It was that bad ... that medicine from Rangan had done its damage. My foot was in the worst possible condition ... actually not foot but feet .. The infection had spread across both the feet ... i had sort of boils filled with disgusting smelling water all over my feet. I just could not walk as that bursted the boils on the bottom of my foot and I was covered in that smelling liquid ... But I had to attend the classes .. thanks to 80% attendance rule at IIML. I remember ... it used to smell a lot and hence even though a sandal would make things simpler for me ... as i would be able to keep my foot out in open ... I still used to wear shoes to classes .. so that its not embarrasing for me ... as well as inconvenience for others ... I still remember Diwakar's (my classmate who used to sit next to me) reaction the day it was at its worse ...

Srimurugan Veluswamy (commonly called as "murgi") .... one of my classmates as well as hostelmates ... one day suddenly called it my bday in class (i am sure it was just a joke) .... but the tussle that followed .. ensured that my feet went from bad to worse ... I had almost emptied the bandage and dettol provided by Manish (thanks!) ... Since I was nursing my foot without proper directions, care and with horrid wrong medicines ... I had an irky feeling sometimes as if its going to spread to my hands also ... one or two days i could see small irritation marks on my hands also ... i could still give exams ...without my feet ... but if something happened to my hands ...

I cried in my room ... all alone ... asking God why had he done it to me ... and if I could not complete my studies ... why the hell had he allowed me to come here ... All this time I had kept everyone at home oblivous of all this ..... But now i decided to let them know .. I needed their blessings to carry on ....

Memories from the golden years of my life (12)

We were standing at Aliganj ... also known as the Purana Chowk ... Me and Manish. This was the first time we had come out of campus together ... for a strange purpose ... to buy my medicines ...

I had developed an infection in my foot ... which was going from bad to worse. It all started with an itching in between of my foot fingers ... then i got wet in the rain ... and the itching area soon converted into a rash! Slowly the rash was spreading to the areas between other fingers. I realised that this could be serious (and God damn it .. it was pretty serious) ... and i went to show it to Rangan (and this was the biggest mistake i could have committed) ... Rangan was the doctor hired by our institute .. He was the strangest creature I had ever met ( well not really :P ... I have met many more stranger creatures ... But amongst doctors .. yes). This guy did not even open his mouth once during the entire period I sat with him .. Just scribbled a few things on paper and handed it over to me. Even when I asked him .. what exactly is this ... he just mumbled something I could not understand ... Later on I came to know that people went to him only when they wanted to die :P

Back to Aliganj .. we were here to get these very medicines prescribed by Rangan! It was very kind of Manish to come with me .... this is one good thing about this guy .. he does try his level best to help people whom he doesnt even know properly .. Agreed we had been neighbours for 3-4 weeks now ... but still ... we had not yet developed the kind of bonding that we had later ... Or maybe this was just the beginning of that bond ... So there we were standing at Aliganj .. I had managed to get a few medicines from the small shops there (later on came to know there was a huge medical shop just nearby!) and we were waiting for the bus .. and I was praying that it does not rain ... as that would make my foot worse ... but it did rain ...

To all friends ...

Happy Friendship Day ... to all the friends whom I met in my this journey called life ...

I was reading one of the newsletters from campus the other day and I came across this line written by one of my juniors. And it truly portrays my feelings today ....

"We may chat on phone ... we may meet occasionally ... we might even spend some time with one another whenever our ways cross each other ... but we will never be all together at the same time .... at the same place ...."

This .... is the truth of friendship .... yet there is another one ....
"You may call a friendship so .. only when it has passed the test of time and separation"

Only a friendship which is able to sustain separation .... and still be as strong as ever is worthy of calling a frienship .... Three cheers to all my friends ... Thanks ... for giving me strength ... Thanks for being my emotional and moral supports ... Thanks ... for leading me to the right way ... and guiding me at every important or less important step of my life ... Thanks ... for being my life ....

To my friends (From the beginning)

Dhiraj Motwani
Navneet Jain
Varun Kumar
Shounak Ray
Yuvraj Sikriwal
Priyanka Saha
Manish Peter
Avichal Agrawal