It is sad how things change so quickly. I am in the middle of my second year in my grad school. In the break after the first year i.e. during the summers, I very sad incident happened. One of my seniors died in a road accident.
Firstly, it was difficult for me to even comprehend such a thing. I though it has to got to be a mistake. How can this happen? Though I didn't knew this person well, I had seen him a number of times. I think I had talked to him when I was to decide for whether and where to go on the Exchange program of my institute. And he was so helpful in not only hearing where I stood in deciding, but gave me all the guidance he could.
Like others, he had got himself placed in a good company and must have been waiting for the joining date or may have already started working. As my mother said on hearing the news, he was just about to begin his life for he would have struggled hard for the education he got and for the job as well. As one of my friends said, it is like preparing oneself for an event, putting one's whole self in the preparation - and then being told on the D-day that you are not supposed to participate in the event.
As soon as I heard the news, I checked his name on a social networking site to see if I could find his profile / photo. I did find those and just started wondering why has it to be this guy. What did he do different / wrong? I called some of my other senior to see if they knew more about the incident. Secretly, I was hoping that someone would say that it was a misunderstanding and that either the story is not true or that he is not dead but has injured himself.
To my dismay nothing of that sort was told to me. Those who haven't heard sounded as shocked as myself. One thing everyone said was that he was a very nice person - smart, intelligent and always eager to help. Why he, then?
As I though of writing this post, I thought of checking his profile on the social networking site again. It is kind of naive but again the secret hope in my mind was that there would be some activity against his name and I would not have to write this. I was happy to see that there was activity and for a few seconds my hope started gaining strength.
But soon I realized that it the activity was only incoming and no outgoing activity was getting registered. Some people who did not knew wanted to get in touch and some who did knew still wanted to get in touch or just remember him. It was his birthday last week and people had sent him messages wishing him for the day, knowing well what had happened but believing that the message would reach him, one way or the other.
Some messages
heyyy ...!!!happy birthday!! i wish i could call..
IN GONNA DO WHAT WE PLANNED ON DOING FOR YR BDDAY.... YOU BETTER BE THERE .....
it was a privilege knowing you. birthday wishes from the bottom of my heart... hope it reaches you.
I will never believe it... not and might take forever... I am wishing you Happy Birthday just the way I would have wished you otherwise
God, here is a plea, wish Happy birthday on my behalf.
happy birthday, never got to know you better, and i guess i am out of time now. :( you are an amazing person. I still remember the little time i spent together... Stay happy where ever you are..we miss you.
our frndshp is rowing older n stronger........ u r there........u r around us n i just know dat...just wanna say dat u r very good frnd, someone who is desired by everyone...........n u r not only remembered but thought of very often....u r one of the cool fnds dat i had the priviledge of knowing ...... n u will always remain as spl as u were the day we all met for the first time..!!!!!
I keep on visiting your profile buddy! Take care wherever u r!
abe kuch to indication de diy kar, chal jawaab nahin dega, phone nahin karega to kam se kam ek bar online dikh jaaa, kuch kar yaar... aise chalegaa nahin... is too damn crazy man... dude, its not really easy to get over tis and u aint helping...
Got your camera for the trip ... Couldn't finalize the dates and all, you know me!!! I hope you come by on a friday and force me to drop everything and catch the next bus ... Well i guess you won't, but may be you will!!!
u.. u know m travelling to delhi today...n remember we had planned to meet........ but now.....................................
despite wat i thot.. thrs no acceptance.. it still hurts.. sometimes the hurt is solid and sits in my heart.... and sometimes its warm and oozy ans spills over.. and then are teh questions .. the worst of all..they never go.. and no answers.. miss u..
I told u, u r the biggest RG i hv seen.
i still can't believe it mate..... Grp 12 was the only grp which remained intact throughout the first year..... but we never thought.. we will be separated in this way... :(
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