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Yeh Akhri Alvida Na Ho… |
More often than not, you have to learn to let go a few things in life… specially people you can’t hold on to forever. Sometimes for the better, sometimes because one day you want them to come back… while often because you have no option left. And whether you like it or not… in this school of life sooner or later you have to learn to say goodbye.
I feel the same today, I felt a few years back in memory… when I had to give away my dear Nokia 3315 after religiously using it for 4 years. Its keypad looked like a blank slate, its screen could be read only at its will, I had to bang it on the floor a few times to open it and often re-insert the simcard when it hanged. While its battery died as soon as I plugged out the charger, I had to announce that we now had a new landline at home. As a result my electricity bills soared high as to that of the whole of Uganda. But I still loved it. I didn’t want to give it up. It was like what a grandmom-gifted new bicycle meant to a kid, like what the first love letter response would mean to a guy and like what silicon means to Rakhi Sawant. In short… so very dear, precious and indispensable. But then on one ominous day when I returned home, and the sky was filled with dark clouds and the sun couldn’t shine, I saw my dad standing at the door with sharpened new screw drivers pointing towards me and my mom with Baygon spray in one hand and the electricity bill in the other. The only way I could enter the house was to swear on my beloved cellphone that I would never use it again. So I had to say a final goodbye to it. I know it’s tragic. My life has been full of tragedies. If I had to make all of them public, I am sure the government would have announced a 3 day mourn. But sooner than I thought a new cell replaced its special place in my heart. Now I could view and store good pics, nice pics, sweet pics, cute pics, dirty pics(and hide them also). So I loved this one even more.
But with people… I believe it’s a different thing. You simply can’t replace them as easily. Especially when they have been what oxygen is to human beings, a shahid-kareena lip lock video tape is to the news channels, and what a good script is to today’s bollywood movies. But what you need to understand and accept is that they have a life beyond yours. And as you have always wanted them to be happy and cheerful, let them choose to do what they wish to. While you can only hope that it’s not a final goodbye.
At the end of this post my heartfelt thanks to… the people who have been the inspiration behind this post, my boss for allowing me to blog at work when I should have had another round of coffee and to the Strings band… as I stole the title of this post from one of their songs. Sweet people and I love their songs! So I hope they won’t mind…
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good lord that u finally said alvida to ur cell phone. i know u were attached to it. but c its the same like old people for whom u often pray mukti when u watch the greif they are in. also good that u have fast filled up the vaccuum created by ur old cell phone.
Whats the funda Dude..?
Hey…what happened dude? Looks like we’ll have another ‘Chat’athon on Sametime hmm.. :-)
Why are you off Sametime these days, btw?
I can understand how you must have felt when u lost that phone . The phone is indeed very precious and indispensable.
My Nokia 3315 has got 8 years of engineering life - 4 years with didi + 4 years with me.
@rahi - Haha. Yes it was long ago though! You like it or not, life teaches you to release your love for a few things… for a few people… :)
@Maltesh - Sorry if i confused u too much with the post. And sorry again.. got busy with work.. cudnt call u back wen ya called.
@ Amruta - Dont we have those ‘Chat’athons regular enuf? BTW thanks for coining tht word…now I dont feel all that useless for crapping on Sametime.
And well nothing really tragic has happened with me… as most comments say here… i just loved my old cellphone a little too much :P.
@Abhishek Pohankar - Simple things in life are the ones which last longer with you… N yea 3315 rocks :).
Well Aseem, I was just gonna comment again about this when you replied to the comments….The important line you wrote is ” as most comments say here”, and these comments, I believe, haven’t got to the gyst of the topic of your blog post.
As much as I know you, which is not much, but yet enough to know, that you did not dedicate this post to your cell phone! :-P Right? :-)
Hehe yup. Newez I did like it to be the way it has been understood. :|