nagame tere pyar ke gaate jayen.. The post has nothing to do with the song, neither the song has anything to do with my post. So, today's a special day.. special because it is the last day of the slowest and laziest month of my life. April 2008 will be remembered as the month when I virually did NOTHING. There was a time, when I used this word as a slang, just to pass off a sarcastic remark over my all time pathetic state of mind, but this month has really been so, when I did NOTHING... and so much nothing that I feel irritated when I have to tell people that I actually am doing nothing except of sleeping for some 12 + hours a day, blogging insanely, watching even the crapiest thing on TV and doing something that is no better than doing nothing.
Anyway. The world keeps on doing something all the time, thankfully and even if you have reached a stale stagnant phase, other's motion makes you feel that you are still alive. Here I am talking about an absolutely amazing and unbelievable man, known to me as Ashish Bhaiya. I have met him once and wish to meet him again.. thanks Aks for that first meeting.

So, why is he so incredible? Not because he has been awarded the Best Students Award of Wharton, or he was interviewed by Wall Street Journal for 6 long hours.. or he got a chance to sit next to Mr Kalam.. but because he achieved so many things after loosing his eyesight during the time of his graduation, I guess; and more importantly because he was born and brought up in country that never teaches you that physical difference is no difference actually.

That was a typical Mumbai afternoon.. it was raining since morning. Aks's three other friends wanted to meet him. We all gathered at a restaurant in Malad. So, he came and we sat down across a table. Ashish bhaiya, Aks and I on this side.. his three other friends on the other side. We all introduced ourselves. And to my immense surprise.. Ashish Bhaiya remembered the sequence of our names and our sitting arrangements. And to add more to my surprise, he was recognising all those boys with their voice. Like if somebody said something, he'll immediately take that who's talking. While talking he was acutally looking towards the person addressed.. there were no errors. Just eye to eye contact. if I had not known him in advance, I would have never believed that he can't see. It was all so perfect. The way he was picking up things from the table.. keeping them.. talking to us... everything with such a perfect ease. All the things he said .. were so much dipped into wisdom. When Aks gave me his blog ID.. I took it as any other blog.. but I was wrong.. every single post covered so many topics, full of knowledge and information.. yet so human and original. After few days when Aks told me that he can't see, I totally refused to believe on him. How can a person, who can't see, do so many things? He did his MBA from a very good college in Mumbai, then stayed alone for over a year at Bangalore for job .. then cleared GMAT and was now going to Wharton! Unbelievable, isn't it?

Obviously, he wasn't send into this world with some special ability..infact one of a major abilities were taken away from him at a young age. Anybody, say some 16 or 17 years old, realises that he is loosing his ability to see. What a disaster it would be for the person and the family? But then life has to go on and very few people are blessed with the ability to live it in true sense. Such people are so less in number that even if you meet just one of them, you feel honoured... as I am feeling, right now.