I remember writing a post abt my experiences related to various associations in life. When I rote about the people I have met since childhood and their impact on me and my life. I also mentioned that this list is not exhaustive since life is a journey and you keep meeting ppl and making friends. So here I am riting, abt another memorable friendship, which I know will never be able to forget for life.
For 13 glorious months of my life, I have been working with my present organisation.
One of the things that makes this organisation memorable is almost the daily talk on gtalk with SEAN.
Very very senior to me in the organisation, I had initially rejected him because to me he had appeared as “too freindly”. So for all the initial months in the organisation, we interacted on the same official platform but almost rarely if ever acknowledged each other. But all that changed by the end of the year ie December last year. I don’t remember what happened, when, or how, but we became friends. I am still to decipher what clicked between us, and how did I become so fond of him inspite of not liking him much initially. We swore lifelong commitment to each other based on our mad mental vibing, our love for wicked humour, and the chemistry that we found between us. If not on gtalk, then we were obviously out smoking in the emergency exit area, down in the orgnisation premises. The smoke touched the skies while we went about our daily business of dissecting things that happened, people we met, our future plans, goals, everything.
Sean’s most redeeming quality in my life was that he always knew how to make things better. You took a problem to him, man made or otherwise, and he solved it for you. He didn’t get mad, he just chose to get even. His brand of loyalty, clean heart, kickass intelligence, infectious enthusiasm, and the ability to know what was right for me although he was so many levels senior in the organisation, made him one of the most wonderful things in my life. I can jot down 1001 things I like abt him and why I like being friends with him. Just that one post would not be enuf. Several good things happened during my stay in the organisation, and thanks to him which is why I will always remember him and the organisation with a lot of affection and fondness. Today, he is the most respected man in the organisation (which only goes to demonstrate how utterly stupid my initial assessment of him as a person, was).
But to me he is not special for any of these achievements although they are all meritorious by themselves. To me he is special because he lets me be me with all my hundred imperfections and vanities, humiliations, heartbreaks, and defeats…things that I don’t admit to most others I know. He made me smile, he made me cry, he made my birthday really really special, he found something to redeem my faith in myself every single time that I messed up, and I know how often that was the case.
If there was one person to name who had restored my faith on male species it is SEAN. Gem of person whom you automatically start respecting once you know him as a person, cause he thinks of a gal beyond a sex symbol. He was the one who made me realise there is a thing called platonic relationship between a guy and gal. And that its possible to be friends with a guy without feeling guilty abt it. Talk abt any and everything on earth without being misunderstood, and without giving disclaimers again and again. That’s wat our friendship is all abt. Still I am blessed to learn the value of hard of work and professionalism from him. Been with me thru the thick and thins in the org, as my friend, philosopher and guide. Max trustworthy, one you can bank on blindly and max emotional too. Cancerian to the core.
As I believe good things don’t last long, I am sure this phase of life is also pretty short lived.
Silly Goose, Wish you all the best for all your future endevours in life.
Love always,
Idiot
