It was late in the evening when I received a call from my friend. He wanted me to help him with the procedures in getting a visitor’s visa to UK. It was quite a surprise to me that he’s travelling all the way to London to meet his gal friend. Before telling you the details let me tell you about him a little.
He’s this guy who had had umpteen puppy loves and crushes and since I am one of his good pals (my assumption) since his childhood, he has the habit of calling me now and then to tell me all his craps, though knew that the only expression he could expect from my end was a loud laugh. But he’s never let that reason restrict our conversations. Howmuch ever I tease him, or irritate him, I found him relentless. He dint give up on me. And during one of my training sessions i received a msg from him after a long time. But this was a peculiar msg, he said he wanted to tell me something very important and had asked me to call him as soon as I finish my class. But since am used to his craziness I dint mind it much and called him late in the evening. And there he was, in a very different tone, very different from the previous tones, after a strict deal that I should not laugh at him for whatever be the reason, he confided in me for the nth time that he liked a gal !!!! But this time to my surprise for the first time he told me the gal liked him too. Now.. that’s a news. My friend is talking sense probably for the first time in his life and I dunno why but I dint feel like teasing him and for some reason I felt happy for him. I talked to him for a while and when I hung up, i felt something genuinely good about the whole thing.
After a month things had got perfectly smooth and both were into that immaculate world of love, or at least that is what he said he was into. Sometime later during a journey, I just asked him casually if he was really serious about this whole thing, and to add to all the first-time-in-life’s again for the first timeI heard him taking up a serious tone and giving me an half an hour of a strong-yes. So I thought, finally the most naughty irresponsible dumbest friend of mine has settled up.
Days passed on and every time I met him I found him happier than the last time. After 4 months of his first found love, he called me to say that she was leaving to London to her sister’s place for a 3 month vacation. Though he was a little upset , he’s not the one who sits and laments on silly things and for that matter I’ve always found him emotionally very strong , but on the other hand she was totally upset with this journey.So he sat there consoling his lady love. She reached her sister’s place and things were fine. They talked online at least thrice a day and it continued until one day when she stopped midway during the conversation because of a severe headache.
And two days later one of her cousins called my friend and informed that the gal has been diagnosed of a Brain haemorrhage.A clot in the brain. Fortunately it dint burst up, hence leaving some chances of survival. I could’nt believe my ears.. There were no signs of it except for some damn headache and I can really never explain the things happened after that in words..But he lived in plain hopes all the way and whenever I called him and asked about her, he would say she’s getting better each day. Little did I know that it was a way of instilling new hopes in him, in spite of knowing that the chances of her recovery were meagre.
After her first surgery, she had spoken to him for a while and that was when he called me up to say that he’s planning to travel to London to meet her. He was very determined to meet her in spite of his flat broken state. But then, he dint know that he had just had his last conversation with whatever-u-call-she-is-to-him. Two days later, on Dec 1st, I received this msg from him saying,
‘Hey my gal’s dead. Am okay. Don worry’
He has’nt spoken to me about her death after that. We met a couple of times after that and the last time we met, we went for this movie Varanam Aayiram. For people who’ve watched it, might know how closely the movie resembles this story. During one of the scenes I could sense him trying to wipe his tears without my knowledge and I was sitting there in one of the world’s weirdest conditions. And the whole movie looked more like his life and for the first time I regretted the idea of watching a Surya’s movie..
He still laughs. But a little lesser than usual. He never lets anyone understand his pain.The only thing I could do is tell him some silly jokes until he gets irritated and laughs at my craziness…
And Life goes on…
