When Karan called yesterday night, he had already lapsed into sadness, and after I finished taking him out of it, it was my turn. It's Deepak's birthday today. This year, none of us are together to celebrate. Karan said that Sumit and he will be celebrating at night with a nice dinner and all. Last year we all went to a temple on this day.
And last to last year, we had celebrated properly. I remember I had gifted him the watch because it was a standing joke between us, that my watch was bought from a gubbarewalla, and he wanted the same. I went a step ahead and had bought him a proper watch. I had wanted him to know how glad I was to have him as a friend. As it is, we were just recovering from a semester of animosity, and were strengthening our friendship at that time.
I could not go to a temple today like we had all planned to. But I prayed at home itself. I prayed for him to be happy always. I prayed for his sisters to be happy. I prayed to God to give courage to his parents to face year after year of birthdays. I prayed for us.
And even though every day I think about him, some remark, some smile, some incident, .. some days are worse than others. And birthdays definitely the worst. He's 23 today :)
Tere bina zindagi se koi shikwa to nahi
Tere bina zindagi bhi lekin zindagi to nahi...
Happy Birthday Deepak !!
