It's funny how some people just find a way of becoming a vital part of your life. When we’d first met Mango and I hardly gave each other a second look. She was some freak from the other desk and I was comfortable with my friends. She claims she thought I was some behenji and, because she’s a snob like that, she decided to have nothing to do with me.
But, because that was the way of the DC crew, we had to interact. A polite nod here, a smirk there. It went on for a while. eventually we began to talk. She found I was brilliant and I found she was gullible. It was a match made in heaven. and so she became another ardent follower.
But after a while, we discovered a mutual love for a show that was relatively less popular in India. Finding another person who knew of the show, let alone worshiped it with fevour, was the stuff euphoria was made of. And so, against my better judgement we became (forgive me for the next part) as thick as thieves.
But after a while, we discovered a mutual love for a show that was relatively less popular in India. Finding another person who knew of the show, let alone worshiped it with fevour, was the stuff euphoria was made of. And so, against my better judgement we became (forgive me for the next part) as thick as thieves.
I don't really know why people say that because I imagine people who make a living out of cheating others wouldn't really be the best example of closeness. Then again what do I know. I don't know any genuine thieves just a bunch of accidental kleptomaniacs and they are duller than door knobs. But, unlike my usual rambling, there is a reason for this particular digression. Namely: why I used an archaic and textbooky term like "thick as thieves". The reason my dear reader, is simple enough. That is kind of exactly what our friendship is like. It is relatively furtive. Most of the time it seems like code to people who don't have the key(note: the key is just watching the unhealthy amount of tv we watch) and we keep telling ourselves we deserve better than each other.
So here we are almost 2 years later, we are friends. Really good friends at that(or atleast as good as the world's laziest human being-me and the world's biggest scatter brain-her can be). Overall though its one of the healthiest relationships I know. We are brutally honest with each other. This is possible because we are famously non-judgemental(her) and famously self-involved(me). In a lot of ways we compliment each other perfectly. I dislike mankind and thanks to social conditioning by people I look up to am "unreasonably cynical" (or something like that) and she, I have no clue HOW, is so optimistic and believing she's considered beginner level by con-men everywhere.
Now, because she's such a thrill seeker, she's taken an assignment with a country famous for its human rights violations. While I do care about her a little more than I would about my second favourite shirt I am not particularly worried about her fate there. She has an unbreakable-puppy like aura to her that makes most bad situations just bounce of her rhino skin. So I know she's going to do great. She, ofcourse, is NOT psyched about it because accepting this assignment would mean she won't be able to single-handedly save the world, atleast not immediately.
So, this note is my way of acknowledging a good woman. A smart, kind and generous person who has risked her future for the helpless. A woman who lost everything she worked for, when she stood up to injustice and then turned around and picked up the pieces of her life and stuck to her dream of making the world a better place. She's the strongest person I know and I look forward to the day when she realizes just how wonderful she really is.
