Just An(OTHER) article about Friendship.

May it be our fast moving world, where we scramble for cover from the onslaught of "Tasks" to be completed by EOD or get trapped in the tightening noose of Deadlines; or the so called laid back life of yesteryears that we assume our forefathers enjoyed or even in the not too distant future where.... well I frankly don't know what will be the scenario then, But I am sure of this.... few things will remain sacred or relevant or whatever one wishes to address what matters to them.

But, If you check our history you will see that stories of love, tragedy,revenge etc form a small list that is present throughout it. But you know what completes or complements the list  - "Friendship"- The perfect chicken soup for the Human soul.

                                   
                                                               
                                 

They say "Revenge is a dish best served cold" then Friendship is a dessert that never loses its taste.Once you taste and savour it, you keep wanting more. One might be separated by thousands of miles, but a simple Hi on facebook or twitter or whatever, a missed call or in olden times a few lines on a letter.... more than enough to rekindle the embers into a roaring fire.

It is this fire that will take us back.... on a sojourn into our memories - happy and horrid, trivial and life changing-everything passes through our mind like the great story.. the great movie it is- one without heroes or villians , but characters etched in heart.

I feel the best thing about the friendship is this....It is not how much you talked or how little nor what what you did or not ... its only about being there... and YES, being there is the greatest gift in friendship.... to share and care, to laugh and cry, to be the part and parcel of a common thread.

And when they part.... a new chapter is added... a saga that grows for eternity waiting for the next episode.......

And as I part I have only this to say we should meet  and meet we shall.

                                                          DASVIDANYA(Goodbye)
Till we meet again. :)

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Sachin - the Answer to the Ultimate Question of Life, The Universe, and Everything

Yep, you guessed it right, I am a fanboy and an immensely proud one at that.

Popeye, Captain Planet, Shakthiman and yes, Sachin completed my quartret of heroes as I was growing up.

While all of them had their own endearing characters, it was this man I wanted to touch meet and greet, for I ……No most of US grew up with him exulted with him wept with him

I grew up at a time when the most common thing about the coconut bats we used for cricket back home in Kerala had MRF emblazoned on it in some way or the other, such was the hold the maestro had among us… His bat, his gestures, his cap everything was up for imitation among us.

When he hit a century out comes the bats and balls and the fiesta starts, when he get out, off goes the TV. He cut and drove straight into our hearts.

He taunted the pigeon, he blasted the Rawalpindi Express, humbled Warne and gave many a sleepless night to his opponents and still they loved him for you couldn’t hate the man

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As I close this I only have this to say as a proof of his lasting legacy

                     "For many, cricket became just a game after he exited."