Listing friends........
Making a list is always an intricate job. After all you might miss something thats essential or add something thats expendable. And making a list of friends is a very precarious thing to do. Missing someone here might lead to incorrigible discords in relationships. But with blatant disregard for such repercussions and with the hope that I will be excused if I miss someone I started creating such a list. Missing someone on the list should be attributed to mere oversight and aging.
Who are my friends. I tried to categorize them into groups. Let us start with my school friends. Now these are the people I have known for nearly 20 years now, some even for 23. Surprisingly they are the ones I am still close to. At least some of them. They are in no particular order - Akshat, Karthik, Naveen, Nidish, Raghu, Shivakumar, Siddharth, Sudesh, Sujith, Vinuthan, Neha, Rose, Deepika.....(those trailing dots represent people I have missed).
Next comes the group of people who I met in college. Being a hostelite I had numerous acquaintances but somehow my distrustful nature led to only a few frutiful relationships. And somehow there were at least two sets of friends in college. One being - Rupam, Satyakam and Santosh. And the other being my roomates - Nagaraj, another Nagaraj and Shrikanth. These are people I have known for 6 years now. Of course another college friend of mine is Sparsha who has also been spoken about in this blog a couple of times.
Next come the people from my workplace. Though I follow a strict rule on not mixing my blog with work (though most of the blogs are written in office!) I am going to allow an exception. But here again I find that though I interact with quite a lot of people somehow I have remained aloof from most of them. I could only think of two people - Paurush and Shiraz, who I can classify as friends.
Then I have one friend who does not fall into any of the above categories! And I could not fit her into any. Its a new friend who I will name as T (She would not like her name to be mentioned in the blog, but I am sure that if She reads this post She will know its her I am talking about!)
I have observed that most of the people I consider as friends have been given that status after a lot of delibration in my mind. Somehow I have never made impromptu friends. And I take time to get into a certain comfort level with people before I consider them as close friends. Of course the number of acquaintances is huge but that seemingly thin line between an acquaintance and a friend is somehow thicker in my case.
Who are my friends. I tried to categorize them into groups. Let us start with my school friends. Now these are the people I have known for nearly 20 years now, some even for 23. Surprisingly they are the ones I am still close to. At least some of them. They are in no particular order - Akshat, Karthik, Naveen, Nidish, Raghu, Shivakumar, Siddharth, Sudesh, Sujith, Vinuthan, Neha, Rose, Deepika.....(those trailing dots represent people I have missed).
Next comes the group of people who I met in college. Being a hostelite I had numerous acquaintances but somehow my distrustful nature led to only a few frutiful relationships. And somehow there were at least two sets of friends in college. One being - Rupam, Satyakam and Santosh. And the other being my roomates - Nagaraj, another Nagaraj and Shrikanth. These are people I have known for 6 years now. Of course another college friend of mine is Sparsha who has also been spoken about in this blog a couple of times.
Next come the people from my workplace. Though I follow a strict rule on not mixing my blog with work (though most of the blogs are written in office!) I am going to allow an exception. But here again I find that though I interact with quite a lot of people somehow I have remained aloof from most of them. I could only think of two people - Paurush and Shiraz, who I can classify as friends.
Then I have one friend who does not fall into any of the above categories! And I could not fit her into any. Its a new friend who I will name as T (She would not like her name to be mentioned in the blog, but I am sure that if She reads this post She will know its her I am talking about!)
I have observed that most of the people I consider as friends have been given that status after a lot of delibration in my mind. Somehow I have never made impromptu friends. And I take time to get into a certain comfort level with people before I consider them as close friends. Of course the number of acquaintances is huge but that seemingly thin line between an acquaintance and a friend is somehow thicker in my case.
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