Wow its been a year and a half already and back i am to blogging. Now this blog is a virtual belated birthday gift to one of my very dear friends, Sonali. I have always wished i could remember special dates on time alas without much improvement :( But thank goodness for a whole load of people in my life including my ever forgiving parents(they always forgive me for forgetting their bdays;)) friends,cousins and relatives in my life that thankfully accept me the way i am.
Okay so about this blog,i write here about Sonali one of my best buddies,the official entertainer and mama bear/agony aunt of the gang in college. A friend i know from my first day in college,isn't that a long long time. Almost donkeys years since we have know each other and i am glad i have her as a friend cos she is a gem of a person,very brave, a little weird,mostly funny, always mature and obscenely helpful .The best way to probably describe her is "Madness personified" cos among all ,this part of her persona is pronounced most of the times and people who know her equally well would agree with me;). She has always been a lil crazy than the rest of us and also mention worthy is the fact that she used to be our personal DJ cum singer on friends birthday parties and the sweetheart she was she would never say no. Back in college,together along with Mona we have seen days stacked horizontally on “the kalia ",her kinetic honda (note the color of the scooter was black,no connection to sholay here). And happily stacked horizontally we would be browse about the streets of bbsr when all of a sudden she would notice someone asking for a lift and would want to add them to the already overloaded kalia.Somehow we would convince her and at times we would have to put our foot down n ask her to choose either us or the stranger and being the good friend that she was ,she would always choose us...isnt that sweet :) Now apart from driving us aimlessly and at times with the aim of looking for new joints and shops in town ,the kalia courtesy sonali had the good fortune of saving lives too. At one o clock at night driving through the almost bare streets of bbsr to take her aunt over to the docs is a feat many of us cant do,but sonali did.
With her around its pretty much impossible to imagine a moment of dullness, that cheerful and full of life is she . While some of us would sulk on those days of the month, see bad hair days or cry over a broken heart ,she was the ever smiling one with the ability to crack jokes in the oddest of situations thus compelling you to get out of your problems and LOL.. And on rare days (which would average to about once in a year) that she chose to do the feat , it would last no more than 30 -60 secs at the most and she would then just pop back to her ever charming self. She would keep all of us ever happy and delighted with her gibberish, funny and at times serious antics. Having said this ,I would say that she is one person i have seen that also takes life very seriously. In my years of association with her i have seen her go through many ups and down and many of us would not have managed to handle things the way she did. I remember while we were studying for graduation, her dad(one of the perfect gentleman i have ever met) passed away in an accident. In the moment of grief, she was the most contained among her sisters and mom, taking care of everything which many could not have done. I have seen her take resonsibility of her family from a very young age ,right after her dad passed away. When most of us were bunking classes and having fun in college, i have seen her toil hard at her workplace and manage college classes simultaneously. And this she did when she was all of 19 years, absolutely applaudable and praiseworthy to say the least.
I am glad we have seen each other through every thick and thin. Having been married now for 8 years now and being blessed with a loving husband and a lovely baby boy ,you dear deserve all the happiness you have gotten. I'll always cherish those wonderful days we spent together during our college days!Lucky guys susmit and sayan,are you listening??? You boys are really lucky to have a wife n a mom as brave, nice and cheerful as her. A lil late may be but I again wish you a very Happy Birthday and a Happy Anniversary i wish you in advance! May you both see many more years of togetherness and the best life can bring.And im sure the love u guys share will last you a life time through :)
