Sitting in the office, so far away from home do I realize how much technology has affected our lives. After a drab day at the office there I see Akash online and we start taking digs on Pachori. Before long Pandey joins it and there I was Rolling on the Floor Laughing in 5 minutes time and quite literally. I was given funny looks twice by people who must have heard my stifling laughs which sometimes were broken only by an uncontrollable burst of laugh. We were commenting on a string on Pachori's wall and having a group chat. I don't remember laughing that hard for quite some time, guess the hardest of the laughs are caused by the silliest of the things. The times the 5 of us spent in Jabalpur have been the best times of my life, this I say even when I've traveled to Amsterdam, Barcelona, Paris and Madrid.
We were fresh into the IIT, with shining dreams in our eyes, quite unmarred with failures, the world was our oyster and we were its pearls or so we thought. I do not say that we weren't a bit conceited and had a very small bubble around ourselves but nonetheless we were happy as a bunch of naked urchins in village pond. I have made many friends and been a part of many groups but it is this core group of friends for who my heart truly feels the belonging and the longing. One thing I have noticed is that ever group has-
- The Binding Agent- this guy is the cutest guy of the group or at least so say the girls. He keeps the group together, he is the mediator in times of crisis and most importantly reminds every member of the group of the other group members' birthdays. He is one guy who even in such a small group is the privy of everyone's innermost secrets. He is so wordly untainted that every one in the group measures his conscience keeping him in mind. He is the one whose approval we take for selecting a girl and before introducing her to the core group as the bhabhi. Not to forget that this guy is the poster boy, the fucking Aloknath of the group who is always selected anonymously to ask the parents for late night excursions and other similar things which parents usually say no to.
- The Chick Magnet- this guy is the most handsome guy of the group or at least so says he. He usually is quite adept in utterly useless arts like playing guitar and singing. As useless as you all might call these frivolities they are a big chick puller, nobody wants to admit. This guy gives you a lot of trouble when you try to keep up with him about the last pond he dipped his beak in. Whenever you take this guy home you give him a deep look and remind him the unbreakable Bro Code- "Friends' sisters are out of bounds". He usually tells you about his innumerable encounters with girls and the different Pick Up lines he used and you often stop yourself just short of noting down in a notebook every single thing that came out of his highly kissed and 69ed lips.
- The Protector- He is usually the biggest guy in the group, physically and otherwise. He is the coolest guy, coolest in the sense when ever you find that your backs are against the wall, you go to this guy. His amazing cool in such crunch situations do half the calming down and the other half is the manner in which he suggests you improbable solutions. Improbable they might be but they give you a hope in such a desperate situation and that is what matters. He might look big and appear more like a meat ball but this big guy has got a heart bigger than his brains and his @$%^, he won't mind me saying that his heart is bigger than his brains but I am sure he would mind me saying that his heart his bigger than his @$%^.
- The Nerd- He is the technology advisor, the career advisor and the teache's pet. He has solutions to your every academic problem and who constantly pesters you to improve your pointer, He is the only guy in the group who knows enough engineering to be qualified as an engineer. If you are in your office and stuck in a MATLAB problem, it is this guy who you ping and call. He is usually a guy who turns out to be the biggest prick when gets high and he gets high the fastest.
The there is also the fifth guy who more often than not marvels at the fact that what would have happened to him had he not found this group. He screws up academically and he goes to the nerd. He screws up in a fight and he goes to the protector. He screws up a date and he goes to the chick magnet. He screws up with any of the other three and he goes to the binding agent. They were there when he celebrated his highs with highs and his lows, also with highs. Whenever he has wanted to do anything be it remarrying his parents or organizing a charity event, all he had to do was to toss the idea within the group. The group that has never ever failed to raise his spirits, further his dreams and aided in achieving his ambitions.
Naive I was, one who had heard of but was unknown to friendship
never did I imagine there would be some names constant on my lip,
be it the beating sun, the smiling spring or the harsh of the winter
there they were with warm hearts and shoulders as strong as sinter
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