Mere yaar ki shaadi hai - Assistance required... :)

From the days I started talking to girls, I realized that I was a good listener. They would talk to me for hours altogether, and I would quietly listen. This is probably one of the major reasons why they would confide in me a lot. And, at the end of it all, I would give them my “expert advice”, something that they would really look forward to. I did help out most of them with my advice, and it always felt good that I could lend a helping hand.

This feature also helped me “expand my services”, free of cost, to other friends of mine as well. Experience also started playing a vital role as I would have first hand information to share with them, that they could relate to. Hardly did I know at that point in time, that this would be one of the most important aspects, which would come in handy for my friend Ayan.

I met Ayan, in Hyderabad when I went there to join Datamonitor. From the first instance, we shared a strong connect, and had a similar thought process. This was the building block of our great friendship. Even after he shifted out of Hyderabad due to a job change, I kept in touch with him on a regular basis, something that I am not very good at. But over time, I started talking to him more often and we became the best of buddies.

Well, enough of context… a couple of months back, ayan tells me over the phone that a girl is interested in him. I actually fell from the sky… Someone was interested in him.. WOW!! That was news… and apparently he also liked her a lot… that was even bigger news.. mainly because he studied in NIFT Hyderabad, and had no-one in his life.. and also he didn’t seem particularly interested in anyone from his or other batches as well.

This is where my “experienced services” came in play. Obviously when he told me all this, I congratulated him, for his delayed but finally came through efforts. Then on a day to day basis, I would advise him how to tackle certain sensitive situations. I stepped in in a major way when he finally called me one day and told me that he has decided to get married to the same girl. Talk about hit and succeed at one go.. Well, anyway, Ayan is very good at delegating responsibilities to others, and make them help him out. Thus, he delegated the responsibility of handling his mama and maami to me, people whom he is very close to, and since I know them as well and speak to them often, it would make more sense. They, on the other hand were to handle his parents, and make them realize what the situation was in a subtle manner. Well, that went smoothly and finally Ayan calls me up last night at midnight, to tell me that the entire conversation process has gone smoothly and now there is a different task for me to fulfill.

I couldn’t even imaging what he was going to ask me at that point in time. Finally, he said… My parents are going to meet her parents and I need you to be MY REPRESENTATIVE. So.. now I am finally looking forward to the day, I am supposed to book flight tickets to go along with his family members. Mere yaar ki shaadi hai… ab itna toh karna hi padega na…. have you ever had such an experience??