Hi guys,
Could not write due to a few personal reasons,but I am back to end this harmonious gap.
This time I intend to write about a friend who is a multi talented guy, as talented as they come, be it sport, music or even his work.
I came to know him as sportsman, cricketer to be specific and at an age when most kids that age would be making mud castles for diwali and be happy for the rest of the year having done that, this guy however was such a talented left arm slow 'BOWLER' he was spinning out people who were playing and performing at the highest level available to them.I sat out while he played and I would slip him a drink, a towel or a hat .
I did not mind this because of his superior talent and of course the captain chose him.Being the same age we started playing the League at the same time, though I was still sitting out serving and doing the needfuls. Time passed , half a decade into the League , the almost hypnotic and rhythmic caterpillar had metamorphosed into a vibrant and colourful butterfly and was being noticed and talked about for its flight, which was so dynamic, exciting and unpredictable that it seems that there was only one butterfly at the time,but the one thing that troubles and saddens me the most is that it never crawled again, tried but never could get the rhythmic trance again.
That to me is the biggest loss of my friend's life, he is a talented musician, talented enough to earn a proper living through it if he so wishes,talented enough to hold us in awe every time we (my friends and I) hear him play.At work, he went from strength to strength after some real slogging, for about a decade, his intelligence and of course talent gave him breaks that were well deserved and he now is where none of us(his friends that is) had ever imagined. He has a lovely wife and a very energetic and smart young son, his family and his friends are really very proud of him so they should be,life is good for this butterfly and it is flying well,really well.........................but to me, he will always be the caterpiller that should have crawled a little longer before he flew as a butterfly.......JUST THOUGHTS
