And I became an adult.......

It was nearly a year ago , I left home with some doubts in mind, lot of courage in heart and thousands and thousands of dreams in eyes. Earlier, whenever I left home , it was for a shorter period of time.But this time when Mukul Mittal dropped me and Nihil Sharma at Station , I knew that it is the final journey away from home.I was lucky enough to have Nikhil with me.He was well aware of the surrounding and was acting as a shield for me.
So, after a tiring journey of more than 36 hours, I reached my destination "Bangalore, A City Of My Dreams". When I landed up in bagalore on 8th April 2004, I had a lot to prove and yes nothing to loose. I was lucky enough to have wonderful friends over there and
all of them were quite supportive. Although , for a person like me , who can never harm anyone even in the farthest of the dreams, it was quite astonishing to see some friends had a wrong impression about me. Some one asked my companion that Siddhartha should bear the load of all the luggage because he deserves that. It hurt me but I said nothing because I knew that the person who told this was not bad. He was also a very good natured and helpful person. I told myself that there must have been something wrong on my part that had forced him to say something like this.But that was the last incident of its type.
After that each day was a learning experience. There are so may funny incidents that if I will start mentioning them here then this site will get overloaded and still the stories will not get over. Once a guy called Prashant Agrawal came looking for job and he was a martinet. Everything that is out of order annoyed him.Initially , we got irritated with his commanding attitude but slowly and surely , all of us fell in love with him and named him commander. Every guy had his own unique characterstics.
I would like to mention each guy's name who came in contact with me.When I reached at my place at bangalore, I was very happy that now I am least doing something , searching for jobs , studying hard and competing with others.One day ,Commander and I went for Lucent Technologies Walkin and he made me to march the whole intermedaite Ring road and when I asked that can't we go by Bus or auto, then he told me "Pagal wagal hai kya, Bus Wus nahi milegi abhi , Paas hi mei hai, pahuch jaayenge". I calculated that I walked for atleast 12 kms that day.
But it was Fun,certainly it was.
Every Guy who was in job used to give us valuable tips and help as far as anything is concerned.
I was lucky enough to have Rahul, Neeraj, Amulya as the help providers and three of us enjoyed all the advantages of having such good friends.When I say, three of us then it means Raju, Pappu bhai and me. The three of us used to spent most of our time together , planning this and that.
Another help that I got was from Nikhil Sharma, he used to travel on a bike and has proved a great boon for me in distributing resumes.Then came another prominent member of Gwalior sarai, Anindya sharma. He is a sort of low profile guy who is always at work.He knows what he is doing and has a unmatchable confidence in that.He is also a childhood friend of mine so there exist a natural camaraderie between us. Just after he came , I got job at Wipro. It was a dream for me that realised in a time of less than one month. I was too happy . I can say , it was the happiest moment of my life. I was happy because not only I got selected but Vishal yadav also got selected. I dropped my plan of going to Cognizant test and MBT interview too , I still don't know whether it was right decision or not. Two weeks after that was too enjoyable. I used to stay awake till late night thinking about my parent's happiness when they will hear this news. It took sometime becuase they were on a holiday trip to Andaman Nicobar.
In all these moments of happiness, I always felt for Raju who was the most sober guy of the lot.He was very low profile but everyone knew that he had something great in him (except his lambi lambi gapps).Sometimes there was a sort of compettition going on between Raju and pappu of bragging.Then a new member joined our group , he was Our sailes( Amit Babu ) .He also started studying from the moment , he arrived at Bangalore.
A thing always amazed me that how can more than 10 guys live at a place without even a small brawl.I had seen guys fighting on the the smallest of issues but at gwalior sarai , all you can hear is the laughter even at 2 'O' clock at night.We used to laugh for hours and then study as if we were most serious guys in the whole area.
But as the destiny decides, it was all over for me because of my training period at Wipro. I used to be in my own world , studying day in and day out.Trying to clear the test but it was not happening. I was always on the looser's end. I tried everthing I could but just couldn't make it through.That time was the hardest time but with friends of such good nature and intelligence , I made it at the final attempt.
There was joy all over again. We celebrated the occassion but I had to leave for Hyderabad a few days later. I was sad but had to move on. As it is said there are some place in this world where you can always check in but can never leave.For me it's like yesterday , a boy came to an unknown city with all boyish chahracterstics but today I search for that boy , where is he gone? where are his funny and teasing remarks( neeraj can tell you that)? where are his friends , with whom he laughed as if there is no one else to hear in this world?
Everything has past ,That boy has become an adult now, whose search for that immamture boy is still on.The boy that left Gwalior on 6th April 2004 had lost somewhere in Bangalore .Some say that you can always found him in the soul of Gwalior sarai.A place which contains souls of many gwaliorites who were also same as that boy when they left Gwalior.All of them had been lost somewhere in the valley of sillicon.Can we find them ? If this question had been thrown at that missing boy, he would have jumped at it by saying , yes I can do anything.
But for an adult, it is the most arduous question he has faced in his life. Can you answer it?


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