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Today Calls Tomorrow
By Prakash Hegade
Copyright 2016 Prakash Hegade
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Preface
I don’t want to say it’s yet another unique love story. I don’t even want to say it’s different. But it’s definitely a love story!
Just like the ways I have loved writing every sentence of it, I only aspire you love reading each line of it. Like every other I had numerous inspirations. I show gratitude to them all and well, to myself too. After all, life is what we all witness and experience every day. Let’s get this started.
This day becomes today,
Every other a yesterday,
Calling with love, a tomorrow!
Every today calls a better tomorrow. If we were happy today, we go with hopes for a happier tomorrow. If we were sad, we have a tomorrow where we stand stronger than today. Between today and tomorrow, tailored is this simple love story. Or in short, pretty much to say, I just needed a title.
There is nothing like “once upon a time” or “long ago there lived” etc stuff. It’s just happening around somewhere, possibly.
Zero: The Launch
Aakash, got placed in his pre-final year after a lot of struggle. You know, not everyone gets to enjoy the joy in getting placed late. It’s a whole bunch and bundle of experience. For now, let’s just say, the process of experiencing many interviews had made him stronger and confident than many of his classmates. He had his favorite selfie which he had taken after he got placed with all the friends who supported. See, that’s what makes engineering life unbelievable. Binding’s get created unknowingly and they make the life beautiful.
A moment ago he graduated from engineering and he had all this weird thoughts in his head. Yeah, weird ones. He was going to miss his special friend whom he never dared to express how special she was and now world outside looked like there could be more opportunities. As the caps went high, he thought he should let go the feelings for Anwesha and he did! That’s the confidence am speaking about. Aakash was matured enough to handle his life, as the reality demands. Though he could hear an extra heart beat when Anwesha was around, life ahead of him looked more exciting.
Send-off party, good food, memory videos, thousands of snaps, guidance to juniors, miss-you miss-you cries, few thoughts on Facebook and that’s how the last few days ended. Well, then ahead was an open invitation to step into a whole different world. Aakash had 2 months of time before he had his joining.
You can easily take a guess on what he did in two months! He went to gym, car driving, met friends, few parties, some hangouts and days passed like hours and hours like seconds. There was no time for second thoughts and the date of joining was few hours away. With the wishes and blessings from family and friends, Aakash was in Pune to earn his daily bread and jam.
One: Welcome Dreams
This is a sneak and peek into Aakash’s daily diary and a few excerpts. There you see a good habit of Aakash, writing daily diary. He was a good poet as well. On the way to Pune, the pen moved across the paper putting forward few mind capturing lines.
Am stepping out of my nest,
My new life I am ready to adjust!
I dream to aim high,
My efforts to touch sky!
The one opportunity to thrive,
I know it’s a strive!
For life brings changes,
I see it in ranges!
Am ready to move, move and move!
Life gives us words, we make out the lyrics.
What matters is the meaning and how well it rhymes!
Am ready to move, move and move!
There is always a mixture of emotions when you go for something new. They are two sided and both the sides get a chill deep down. The two extreme pulls which somehow balance each other and I still don’t know if the balance is zero. One side of resistance from the environment where we have grown up and accepted it as a perfect dwelling place and other side of capacitance pulling to be part of new growing place with more responsibilities and independence.
There will always be a phase of time where yesterday looks stupid and tomorrow sights the brightness in mind. We get to see this phase every moment. Laugh at ourselves for what we were yesterday and promise ourselves that I will be better tomorrow.
Two: The Magic of Pune
Pune, Maharashtra, India! We should know how Google Maps looks at Pune and what Wikipedia has to say about!
Pune is the seventh largest metropolis in India and the second largest in the state of Maharashtra. It was known as Punyanagari in old time. It is situated 560 metres (1,837 feet) above sea level on the Deccan plateau at the right bank of the Mutha river. Pune city is the administrative headquarters of Pune district and was once the center of power of the Maratha Empire. Pune existed as a town since 847 AD.
In the 18th century, Pune became the political centre of Indian subcontinent, as the seat of Peshwas who were the prime ministers of the Maratha Empire. Pune is considered the cultural capital of Maharashtra. (From Wikipedia)
Leave apart the technical; Pune is a city where you fall in love the moment you step in. Aakash could feel the welcoming warmth as soon as he entered the city. The best part is, it’s the month of August and Pune is lavishly green. It is something which one can never explain in words. Have a look yourself!
Rains!
Chai!
Pakoda!
Pune! And
Aakash!
That was the status which got him few hundred likes and comments for the day. The magic of Pune is that there is no magic, yet it seems to be magical. The beauty, the culture, the decency and everything makes it lovable. Aakash called up his mom and updated about everything. Right from the snacks he had to his new stay place.
He just looked over the bus he needs to catch to his office and visited few places around. There is still a day to relax before he joins his workplace. It was good to see all the buses having bells to signal the bus halt. Everyone had to get inside from the back side and get down from the front. It is something which you don’t see in any the other states. Standing in queue to get tickets, is something which is generally read only in books apart from Pune!
Aakash was in central bus stand, got inside a crowded bus and there he saw an angel! He could not stop staring at her in bus for she was so much cute. Aakash could not take his eyes off her. The white dress she wore made her look the cutest in the world. If you think here begins the love story, Nopes! The angel was a 5 year old kid.
Before the office begins, aakash learnt this first Marathi word, “Thamba”, which means “stop”, which was definitely needed to stop the shared autos which were highly used mode of transportation apart from bus service.
“Thambaa!”
Three: Day 01 @ Office
Aakash was wide awake already and looked at his cell phone. There was still 20 minutes for alarm to sing his favorite song “lungi dance”. This is a rare event. Generally waking up 20 minutes post alarm is a trend. Well in advance, very few in life time you see! Aakash got up with excitement, brushed his teeth, twice, quick bath and spent a little more time in front of mirror th
an usual. First day at office and someone wanted to look really good. He had all the colors bursting and flying in his heart. Just like the colors painted to the PG he had opted to stay.
In pune style “Mann me laddu phootna”. Yes, exactly. There was a light drizzle as he walked out of his PG and got into bus. Wait, something happened before he got into bus. He got a short glimpse of someone who quickly passed over him. Green long dress and mixed with white. A little less tall than him and gave him a quick chill. He was running late. “Better luck next time Aakash”, he said it to himself and jumped into the bus. He could not get her sight from the window. He believed it was that’s it all for the day and started reading his WhatsApp messages.
There were a couple of ‘all the best’ wishes from his close friends. There was a message from anwesha too. Though he was near last one to be placed, he was the near first one to get the joining date. He pushed over “thank you” messages and a status update on facebook.
It started at 9.00 am and never realized how it got to be 6.00 pm. The search’s, greets to new people, investigating about food court, introductions and a couple of hundred signatures. That’s it! The team manager gave a quick introduction and announced that the training started the day next. Well, 2 Tea’s and one lunch and way back home.
Took a shared auto to get back home and aakash got a call from his mother asking all updates. That’s how pretty much the