Different Moulds !!!

Since the last Blog was on Childhood, I thought that the best way to carry it forward would be by posting something about friendship. Friends – Of all shapes, sizes, moods, attitudes, perceptions, pockets, ambitions and of course the most dangerous of them all – Brains !

Friends need not be necessarily of the same Mould. I mean they may be drastically different in their approach towards life, things, people and quite often of themselves too.. And this difference is what makes me categorize US (i.e me and my friends) into 3 categories as below -

Let us call them -  A, B and C. All three have a fairly enviable education background. All are in their prime now (25 types).

A  works for One of the biggest private limited companies in its segment and has plans of being listed soon. This company is one of few organized players in India's burgeoning retail market. A is one of the most extraordinary people that we would have ever met. Although he does not put a lot of time and effort in coming up with insights and ideas but whenever he does so, he comes up with a gem. His words are worth their weight in Stocks, diamonds, Audis, Jaguars, I Phones….,…. His thoughts are very clear and he knows what exactly he wants out of life and work. He is also one of the laziest people you are ever likely to meet.

B works for a "conglomerate" with businesses ranging from chemicals to locks to rocket engines to foods to retail to real estate to medicine and to what not. If we legalized gambling and betting, they would have launched that too. Anyways, B is an engineer by education, manager by designation and Shikari Shambhu by character. His sole aim in life is to make more money than anyone he knows, own the biggest house amongst his reference group and retire with enough in the pension fund. Nothing wrong about it. Just that its a different story that he is not doing anything about it.

C thinks he is the hardest amongst the 3 to be understood by the outer world including C himself. He is often branded random, frivolous and fickle minded. He is trying to ride some 20 boats at the same time and needless to say, failing at staying on course. He work a 9.00 to 6.00 job and leaves his office strictly at 6.00, goes to his place and stares at the wall and TV for about 5 hours before he sleeps.

A typical day for each of them is VERY predictable. For example C would be staring at the clock and his wrist watch trying to set the time right (with a hell lot of confusion regarding which clock shows the right time !). B would be trying to scroll through his G-talk chat list thinking who he can chat up with. A would be out of his office smoking umpteenth cigarette of the day. I can also say for sure if you asked the other two about all three, everyone but A would know what others are up to. A's secretary might have some answers though!

Not that we don’t try to break out of this monotony, it’s just that we are constrained by things that seem out of control and we don’t even try to move out of the rat race. For A, its lethargy, for B, its security and for C, its, well err…forget it!!!

But then they still are great friends, move together and have a blast in whichever sense their individuality finds appropriate!

After all – Har Ek Friend Zaroori Hota Hai !