Friends

                                  
I have only a handful of friends. I take considerable  time to get closer to anyone  but when i do it becomes doubly difficult for me  to move away. The best thing about my friendship is i am  rarely or rather hardly in regular touch with these closer ones - but we have never missed each other ever. Much like a mother - never visible but always available.

MVR - We studied together between my first and fifth grade. Till date he remains my role model. If anything, i am always intimidated by his simplicity. And he is  now such a towering personality that i have to be intimidated for more reasons.

GK - My love for music and the ability to understand music in its technical form was nurtured by this great soul. He is a different person - a great talent and has a tremendous future ahead. Will surely track him.

MGS - Another one in the GK mold and a living example of how hard work and perseverence can take someone to great heights. If simplicity is his virtue, piety is his strength.  He would always remind  me of my favorite theme "you cannot ignore talent". Well done MGS.

GD - The easiest way to describe this person is he combines something of everyone above minus the experience in formal education. As irony would have it, he has not gotten due recognition in life although everyone needs him for some reason or the other.

KS - It is said 'the hands that help are holier than the lips that pray'. But what do you call a person who is blessed with a pair of hands that is always helpful and lips that has only prayers for others' peace. Faith manifests in many forms. If anything, this person personifies the power of faith.

Will soon come up with a second in this series...