Delhi Memories #1

Today I was going through Airtel Xstream and saw that Shawshank Redemption was being aired on HBO HD. So I started watching it and it reminded me of lot of things😶. 

The first time I went to see Delhi for coaching i had to stay alone in a room in Ranjeet Nagar (South Patel Nagar area). I went there 15 days in advance, so just to get used to the environment and place. But it was not as easy at it seemed. I didn't had anybody in real life to talk to. Reason being- that area is filed with aspirants and if they come to know that you're new there then they will pretend that they are busy to show off. Moreover, it's really hard to get mobile phone signals in that area but luckily my landlord had installed signal booster which helped me in reciving calls else everyone in that area has to install a WiFi router and do a WhatsApp call. So, I used to talk to my parents, sister and one friend Srushti. 

It's really important to have great friends in your life because they help you in these times only. Srushti used to call me once or twice and that was the only time when I could share things with anyone. Because telling it to parents or sister would might have made them worry about me. I think on 3-4th day I started watching Shawshank Redemption (on 2G network on Airtel Xstream) and completed it in 2 days (I couldn't watch it continuously because it was really frustrating to be alone). And apart from great story, there are few great quotes from that movie too which I remembered. 

It's been more than a year since I left that place but my associative memory still made me remember everything. In one year everything has changed. I've completed my coaching, gave one attempt in exam and maybe I've lost my friend Srushti. Though I haven't met her in real life but she had been with me in tough times like first few weeks in Delhi and during the full lockdown when I was alone at PG. But when I tried to talk to her in this July (before that she used to talk regularly), she seemed really busy and didn't wanted to text. So I too thought why to bother her but it's been almost 3 months since she text and maybe by now she has forgotten me 😅 because people are not always busy, they take out time for people they care, so I've almost lost her. And trust me losing his friends in not easy, certainly not as easy as you think. It's been a long year and everything seems never ending but as Andy Dufresne said in Shawshank Redemption “Hope is a good thing, maybe the best of things, and no good thing ever dies.” maybe I've to go on too to live my changed life but I know it will be really hard to forget past and I'll miss it everytime I will watch that movie. 😊 

Typed on: 12 October 2020, 18:28

Maybe someday I will write more about my time in Delhi, till then Take Care ^_^