Birthday with policemen at Gateway!!!

Many times a very simple and odd way of celebrating a birthday turns out to be a memorable one. At this birthday of one of my best pals we did one of the most unique things, we celebrated his birthday by cutting his birthday cake at the Gateway of India at midnight with the cops. It all started with a surprise planned for my pal, he wanted to celebrate just by being at marine drive till midnight so we decided to add up some spice to his plan. Two of our friends decided to come with the cake to marine drive exactly at 12 and the original plan was to cut the cake at marine drive but as there was still some time left before midnight we decided to grab a bite and to do that we ended up near Gateway. So after we had some food one of our friends gave us the idea of cutting the birthday cake at Gateway. Initially we were against it considering that after 26/11 the security around Gateway will not permit any kind of get-together and that too at 12 in the morning. As soon as we placed the cake on the dusty walls near Gateway a policeman on beat duty came in and demanded an explanation but seeing that we were innocent college kids he ordered us to round it up quickly. We did cut the cake and celebrated his birthday in an unorderly manner and afterwards as by the end of the celebration we saw that by that time many a policemen had gathered on patrol duty at the Gateway. Instinctively we decided to offer them the cake in good faith and we were a bit skeptical about their approach to our offer. But to our surprise they were pretty happy that we offered them the celebrated birthday cake and by the time we distributed the cakes to all there were none left. In the end they wished the birthday boy a long and successful live with the add on tips of being a good citizen. After all this ended and we were on our way back to our bachelor pad that’s when we realized that this was one of a kind birthday celebration at the Gateway with the policemen.

Immature Love

College days are the days to enjoy with your friends and chose your field of interest and start work for a living, but what I see nowadays is the urgency among people hardly in their 20s to fall into a relationship with the opposite sex. I have seen people going crazy after each other to the extenet of forgetting even their closest buddies. The best dialogue that I often hear from people when I ask them about the craziness of a relationship is, “You wont understand it because u haven’t been in a relation, it is a different feeling that is fun and cant be described” Ok fair enough I say but what really bothers me is the mad rush for commitment among the youngsters, I cant believe people who have been in a relation for just 5 months committing to get married at the tender age of 21. You know your parents who brought you up and your friends who have been with you in thick and thin and one fine day a girl or a boy comes to your life and then all the people who have been with you till now, take a backseat. I appreciate one school friend of mine whom unfortunately am not in touch with, one day I saw him at the movies and was about to go and meet him when I saw a girl emerging besides him and I had heard the news that he was into a relation, so I decided not to go up and talk to him. The next time when I met him I told him about the incident and all he said was, “dude she knows me only for a year and u know me since the last five years so who do you think has the priority you or her?”……this sentence really touched my heart. I have known people who just because others have a girlfriend are desperate to have one in their life and the most illogical reasoning that they give is that “I am fed up of my life I need a change” so try going on a vacation but for such people its getting a girlfriend that s the solution. What happens is that at such tender age people tend to get so emotionally involved that when the relation does not work out and they break-up they go on to the extent of ruining their careers as these years are critically important. I am not against boyfriend-girlfriend relation but I really feel that people should be mature enough to enter into a relation and not go on dreaming about their future life. I find it really irritating when people are like, “I am done with her now and I am going to move on, but she’s still my very good friend and v are still in touch” I find this concept stupid when a boy and a girl break-up and say that they are still the best of friends, if its only the boy or the girl then its fine but if its their lethal combination that makes it illogical. Now after seeing many of my friends deeply involved I have derived one thing which is that people who are really in love can go to any extent of madness and during that phase of madness their rational thinking drops to an unbelievable level. As one of my best friend asked me this question “Why is it that people always “Fall” in love?”……………….and I believe that no one can give an appropriate answer to that one.