Dil, DOSTI, etc..

“Ya, I’ll call you.”

And here I stay waiting for the call. 5 minutes gone, 10 minutes done. There’s no call. I keep scrutinizing, what went wrong? Is the he busy somewhere? Does he suffer from short term memory loss? Is he ignoring me? Did he deliberately do it? I keep thinking and sleep with so many questions boggling through me. Morning that I get 

up, I come to know, he was fast asleep. Huh!!

When asked for a justification, he’ll make sure he has a solid reason or an interesting counter to have me up tongue tied. I just keep mum for a moment and think, “Hey Raam, kaha se mila yaar ye?”

The next “Ya, I’ll call ya. Aaj Pakka.”

Here I am again, waiting for the call. 5 minutes gone, 10 minutes done. I again go through my list of probable concerns and doze off. Morning I get up, I read a message, “Arey wo ____ ka call aa gaya tha. Toh mai bhul gaya” Blah! Blah!

There’s no next this time. No demands for the call at all.

I am so sure he won’t call, that I start watching a movie. Why follow the same routine always and get annoyed? And to make an exception to the rule, he makes that not at all awaited call.

“I am surprised! Tune call kiya…”

“Achcha nahi karna tha kya? Theek hai bye”

Phone disconnected. Bedazzled that I stand, I am unable to sum up what happened. I call back. “Ab kyu call kiya? Baat toh karni thi nahi tujhe”

Confused… Speechless… Feeling imbecilic… Unable to actually comprehend the situation.

“Bol yaar. Kaisi hai tu? Kitne din ho gaye na baat kar ke.” I end up baffled and initiate the talk which lasts long.

I categorically put these kinds of people in the list of FRIENDS. One of a kind Sapien sub-species.  Almost all say that they understand their friend a lot and so are friends. But can you justify the above episode? Truly speaking, I cannot. May be I can say, I know that my friend may keep doing this brand of behavior. But really unpredictable. If this is what defines understanding, then even I do. Understanding the uncertainty.

When at all I need advice, these friends come up with all sorts of ‘gyaan’ which actually soothes for that moment. Later that I trod over the same scenario, we in fact laugh out the whole episode and also that so called ‘gyaan’ I got for nothing at all.

Need to take frustration out… “dost!”

Need to laugh… “dost!”

Need to cry (and then laugh at the same)… “dost!”

Need to ward off boredom… “dost!”

Need to share… “dost!”

Need to go out… “dost!”

I can make a list endless with all the crazy, idiotic, stupid, giggly, insensible, insane, ridiculous, crackbrained and sometimes even serious state of affairs.

This sort of times and issues in life need none other than friends to take care of. Airtel jingle goes… Har Ek Friend Zaroori Hota Hai… Hota hi hai yaar… if there are no such friends, there’ll be no hint of fun frolic mock… nothing…

And if to add to the funfair are friends like I mentioned in the situation above, you would just not understand what he/she means to you at all… the biggest brats… crack pots… and honestly the best ones of the lot… Defining friendship newly everytime…

A pure dedication to all those who have friends and yes who are MY friends…