It was the time when I was there at Kota for my IIT JEE preparation. 10-12 hours of self study (apart from the coaching and school which we never went to) till 2 years flat, leaves you desperate enough to grab any fun that comes on your way. Before getting ideas as to what kinda fun we could afford to have there in the so called modern gurukul "Bansal Classes, let me tell you that we had to live up to an image that we are bansalites!
So we hardly used to have time apart from our studies and daily practice problem sheets! Still, however long and hard you study, the recreational urge has to be quenched! Entertainment bug bit us as well. First to fall off the poison was my dear best friend Adit (addycool in his online avtar) and `then later me along with my buddy khandel (we created our online profiles together ) As our class was gal deprived so the desperation to talk to the opposite sex usually took the students to the chat rooms. I am just trying to camouflage the word "frustoo" with all this description ..anyways
When I heard about chatting funda from adit, I gave a frown as to isn't it weird to talk to people whom you have not even seen and are talking them for the first time. Somehow the idea of chatting didn't appeal to me. But one fine day rather night ..no rather before early morning at 2 AM .a knock on my window startled the flow with which I was solving the physics sum. It was khandel on the window
Khandel: abe Varun, chalta hai kya?
Me: Kahaan bhaai, itni raat ko?? Aunty jag gayi to waat lag jaayegi! (my landlords)
Khandel: abe nahin jagengi..chat khaane chalte hain (he meant chatting karne chalte hain)
Me: abe is samay kaun si dukaan khuli hogi chat ki bhaai!
Khandel: tu aa to sahi
And to my amazement, we landed up in a cyber café, bits-n-bytes, the famous spoiling joint for the Kota kids. This is how I was introduced to the online world.
Much later I used to hear from Adit and Khandel about their latest online crushes and how they look and what all they talked and all.
How they used to fight and pledged not to talk to each other as one had talked to other's GF
How they spent time talking bout now they think that they should settle down as they are "grown up" enough now
My pal was one cool guy who would eye the hot invigilator during mock JEE tests and was daring enough to write the hindi songs on his question paper that he heard when we used to study together just because "mera paper dene ka man nahin hai" I guess all born intelligent are like that.
One fine day my pal came to me and said "Bahut serious baat karni hai"
I was all ears as I have never seen him that serious in the entire 2 years of me knowing him!
Yaar ..ummm ..
Yaar ..Mujhe Pyaar ho gaya hai!
No I was not wide eyed jaw dropped there as this was the 6th time in the last 2 months that the cupid had hit him!
But this time according to him..he was SERIOUS indeed!
Actually you are really serious at 17 years of age when you say this that "Varun, main soch raha hoon ki shaadi kar loon. Meri friend hai Africa se, uske ache farms hain, wahaan jaake farming karoonga, mumy papa ko bhi bulaa loonga aish ki life hogi"
Some how over some lose talk, these guys had a "e-break-up" and my 'ol pal underwent a massive heart break.
But wo kahaawat yahaan ek dam sahi saabit hoti hai, ki ek ladki ka gham doosri hi door karti hai.
A quarter of rum down under, and a new face of a hot lookin chick at bansal's, my frend was back to square one, all ready to fall in love again and the rest as they say is history!
I realized this that 'oh so serious' talks then are a matter of laughter among us now. The so called 'seriousness' then now appears another stupidity to us!
However, it let me to the belief that in a moment the present becomes the past, in a moment the moment itself becomes a memory .
These anecdotes have shaped me as a person till date and these sweet and bitter experiences make us what we call "Self"
Hope you all like it…Cheers, 
