Looking Back

That day, was a very special day for many people there – they were joining a great company and were employed in their early twenties..!

They were going to have cash for themselves; they were going to reduce the burden on the shoulders of their parents; they were going to keep their first step in the path of their career, to say, a journey of thousand miles. A very few of them were alone while most of them had already formed groups as they belonged to the same place or college or they were their friend’s friend. But none of them knew that, that day was the beginning for a “Golden Period” in their life.

Having been seated in their respective classes, they looked around with a usual weird feeling of being with people whom they have never been with before. With respect to the fact that, every step in career is prefixed and suffixed by learning, both technical and non-technical, people in the faculty levels walked in and kept them occupied. Unusually, there were two faculties who could mingle with them completely. There rooted the first seed of friendship. Trying to get to know each other, they started asking the names of people who were sitting around them. As usual, this was initiated by one of the faculties and taken ahead by people who couldn’t shut their mouth for more than few seconds – famously known as chatter boxes. They played games which helped them, know themselves and people around them better. The bonding between the hearts kept thickening and the garden of friendship by then had 36 +2 plants deeply rooted, not in soil, but in the emotions and thought process of the people.

They learnt more from the non-technical sessions. The technical sessions went absolutely without much learning and they spent it all just by admiring the faculty, who had the world’s best smile. The non-technical sessions and the faculty helped them build their creativity and their emotional stability. As days passed, the friendship led to the creation of lot other relationships among them – brotherly, motherly etc. The weekend outings had added more spice and flavor. The maggi and the cup of horlicks from a roadside shop had become a part and parcel of their lives. Thanks to the accommodation that was provided, this kept them all together and enabled late evening meetings and dinning possible. Hats off, to the technology which kept them together even after they had to part. The garden of friendship had blossomed flowers by then and was vivid and attractive. It all happened at the ILP at Trivandrum for the T-07 Zealots, the first batch of 2009. Our heartfelt thanks to Dhanya and Ambu who made our lives at ILP very meaningful. The beauty of friendship is that it blooms among people who have never met before, who have different tastes, who belong to different habitats, who are of different age groups and who have different needs to be catered.

“Friendship is a not just a word, not only a relationship. It is a silent promise which says, I was, I am and I will be, with you forever”. – Anonymous.

Not that we did not learn anything in the technical sessions. Dedicating my Object Oriented view about friendship to Dhanya. Friendship is the base class for all the relationship classes. The base class has attributes and member functions inherited from affection, courtesy and trust, which is multiple inheritance. The friendship class pointer can hold objects of all derived relationship classes. Unless we override the friendship attributes and member functions, there cannot be any misunderstanding. So beautiful is friendship, which will neither find faults nor brood over wrongs. Long live friendship..!