Tuesday, October 20, 2009

Adios Amigo!


26 is an age when people live, drink, party and may be date. 26 is not an age when people die. Especially when the "people" I am talking about are fit enough to explore Ladakh, jovial enough to burst fire-crackers and ambitious enough to switch jobs every 6 months (on an average).

I am talking of an ex-colleague and a good friend. By good I mean good enough to wake up at 4:00 am to ensure I got dropped off at bus terminal just in time to board an early morning service to Hrishikesh.

Not many people do this for others -- this, I have learned from personal experience. I owed you this one but not the way it turned out to be.If this is the way you want to wake friends up, SORRY, I am not game.

In one of my worst mornings ever, I got a call mid-slumber and from what I could make between persistent sobs on the other end was that this particular friend of mine was no more. (Is it mere co-incidence that last night my sign off status on facebook was 'Murphy have Mercy'.)

His best friend was on line with me. He was inconsolable and all I could utter was -- "This can't be true". It's strange how grief can turn the most verbose of us into complete taciturns. The guy on the other end was a complete wreck and I seemed to have lost my vocabulary. What could I have said when I myself felt as if someone just pulled ground from beneath my feet. How superfluous words can be at times!

My friend died of heart attack. He never smoked. He never boozeed.



I know dude, you would not be scrapping me or commenting on this anymore and I really regret not responding to yor scrap last night. Yet, I want to say this as our final goodbye that it was so much fun shooting Festive Specials and Fashion Weeks with you. You will be missed by all of us but that indefatigable spirit of yours, that always craved for adventure, will be cherished by all. Rest in Peace. Adios Amigo!!

4 comments:

  1. mrigz ... I wish I don't write here ... sorry to here what happened ur frd ...
    since u dont know what happen after life dont be sorry .. who know may be he read what u wrote here ...
    life is not our commodity ... it is a privilege we have

    so, its not how much time u lived in ur life but how life u lived in that time...
    n the way u have expressed him, it seem he lived each and every moment of it ....

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  2. well i cn only say that whatever d feelngs u hav fr somebody love or hate jst tell him or her today this moment bcoz no one knws tht this moment is "kal ho na ho"

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  3. Yes Ravi and Antriksh you are right.

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  4. Time stops for none... we don't know what's going to happen next...
    Ppl Stay with us & Leave us sm times for long & sm times for ever... But We always have them with us as memories...

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