I always felt the story about two friends who have an encounter with bear, where one friend tries to save himself by climbing the tree and other saves himself by acting dead actually gives a negative meaning to the saying.
I was in my second year and it was end of the term. The course work comprised of five subjects, of which Logic Circuit was one. The term-work file of LC was about 200 pages thick and just a day before submission, my file got misplaced. (lets assume it to be misplaced by my act of laziness or my sloppy practices. Though I think someone took it by mistake and discovered it much latter enough to be afraid to confess. Few thought it was stolen to take revenge, but I never till then I presume was in bad book of someone to make him pull such a dirty stunt on me. And to be fair and not quote UJFW(viral) would be such a shame, He devised a theory that I did it to make myself popular, well opinions are matter of perspective and better not dissected for mere discussion.)
I was never a white collared student, not even remotely in position where I could expect teachers to support me. I did try though, but the concerned lecturer made it clear that he required the file up-to-date the subsequent day before 5pm.
200 plus pages in a day were by no means, a human task and I was foolish enough to hope that a classmate would find my file at their residence and story would end there. Next day I reached early at the class and personally asked everyone if I were lucky enough for my file to at their abode. Dejected by the fact that the only way possible through this is to write entire file again, I walked to the dais of our class and made a last attempt of asking if anyone had seen my file. The tension on my brain was huge and ache in my forehead acutely described it. I cloud feel the rise in temperature at my neck and back of ears. Somehow I could smell my fear too (though now I have a feeling they are some kind of pheromones). The heart was beating so fast, that it felt like it was beating at base of my neck.
'guys, you know.... I have lost my LC file..... has some one seen it ?'
My plea was cut short by Nidhi , who said, 'give us the pages, and we'll help you write'
Her tone was not just a confidence builder for me but also encouraged our fellow classmate to join my cause. As the luck would go, I had forgotten my wallet at home and had to borrow money from Viral and Nico (Ghansham Rajmachikar). When I returned with pages, the trio of Viral, Niko and Hema were not to be seen. As I sat on my desk to start, the task of distribution was taken up by 'Priti' and with her efficiency, by 11am I had all the experiment write-up complete.
When Priti (another Patel) took care of my experiment write-up, a friend from previous year, who some how got distanced from me, came, bowed and asked, 'what can I do for you sir?'
Had it not been for anxiety and apprehension, I would have been a bit emotional with that dialogue. But then, I had exhibited at different instance in life that I have emotional range of ladle, if not a teaspoon.
'Sharad' along with few other, completed my assignments and by 12 noon, my file was complete. The lecturer was obviously not vivacious about the effort, but did appreciate the spirit of my classmates.
so, well you can concluded that, friends in need are friends indeed !
All I can do is hope that I dont fail them in their need.
List of friends, (with their original name, in alphabetical order), without whom, the day would have ended on a sadder note.
| Akshay Chaudhari |
| Amit Patil |
| Anuja Chaoudhary |
| Atul Patil |
Deep Kawa
Eshan Dalvi |
| Gaurav Sharma |
| Lakir Rambhia |
| Mangesh More |
| Pankaj Patil |
| Priyanka Patil |
| Ramji Prajapati |
| Samit Patil |
| Saurabh Sawant-Bhosle |
| Sweta Patil |
| Vaibhav Bhave |
| Virendra Singh |
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