Chapter 3: chapter 3

Amit – Aman, the whole world is drinking and all loves drinking. You mean all of them are wrong and you are right! Aman – Yes, you are right. All of them are really wrong and I am really right. Haha. Amit – Seriously? You have not become a great scholar yet. People don’t recognize you yet. Aman – What if I am not popular yet. Maybe one day, I may have millions of subscribers too on youtube. Haha. Amit – Haha. Now, you are being funny. Aman – Well, I am saying all this in a funny tone but I am really very serious about whatever I am saying. And I do what I believe. Amit – Hmm... So, tell me finally, are you coming or not? Aman – Not. Amit – Okay. Then Paras and I are going. If you want to come then let me know. We won’t force you for drinking. You can have cold drink or anything you like with us. Aman – Okay, I will see then. Amit – Bye. Take care. Now, it’s time for me to attend my lecture. I don’t know if the lecturer is going to come or not but still, I have to go into the classroom. (Giggled)Aman – Hehe, yeah. Bye bye.  FlashbackAfter a few days, in the library, I was sitting there and reading competitive exams magazines. I was so absorbed in reading that I didn’t even come to know when Paras and Amit sat beside me. Amit whispered in Paras’s ear, “See, how he is lost in his studies as if he is going to become an I.A.S. officer! Hehe.”Paras whispered back, “Haha, true. Actually, he thinks only studying books is life but he doesn’t know that it’s the worst way to live a life. He thinks that one day he will become an officer and at that time he will enjoy his life. So, his happiness lies in the future that may or may not come. He is living in the future. He has to learn how to live in the present like us.”Amit – Hmm... true. Amit tapped on my right shoulder and I looked in the right to find Amit and Paras sitting beside me. I was surprised, “Hey, both of you are here!”Paras – Yeah, we have been here for about five minutes but our philosopher is lost in his books. Aman – Really? Amit – Yeah, really. Why are you always lost in your studies? There are many other things in life too. Aman – What kind of other things? Girls, wine, wandering on the streets? Amit – Yeah. The real fun lies there only. Aman – No, my dear. The real fun doesn’t lie there. Paras – Then you tell us where the real fun is. Let’s know. Aman – The real fun lies in marriage. Paras – Haha, indirectly you are saying the fun lies in a girl. Good one. Aman – No! There is a world of difference between what you are thinking and what I am saying. When you talk about a girl, you mean casual relationship or say casual girlfriend. But when I talk about a girl, it means a long pure relationship. Amit – Uff! He has started his lecture again. Aman, why are you stuck in marriage, marriage and only marriage? It’s not your age to marry. Now, you are just twenty. We are still, collegians. Enjoy college life!Aman – Those who enjoy college life, they fail in making up their careers. And those who don’t have careers, they don’t have money. And those who don’t have money they can neither make girlfriends nor marry any girl. If you really want to enjoy in your life, make your career first, then everything falls into place automatically.  Paras – Amit, don’t try to convince him. He will make us mad. Amit – He will come to know the reality of life with the passage of time. Our mere words are falling on his deaf ears. Hehe. Aman – Hey, wait wait! You are talking as if you are seventy years old and I am just fifteen. Haha. We all laughed. Aman – I tell you, the real fun lies in only a hundred percent loyal relationship. When in the life of a girl, there is only a boy and in the life of a boy there is only a girl. And when both of them come in front of each other, they are able to talk to each other’s soul. Paras – Enough pal, enough! We got it. Let’s do one thing. You study and we both are going to the ground to see patolas (hot girls)! (Chuckled)Amit – Haha. Aman – Okay, okay. You go. You can never understand me. Amit – No, we got you. You are really a non-practical man! Haha. Having said that Amit and Paras exited the library room leaving me alone with my books. Flash-forward  I took another sip of hot yummy milk and said despite knowing no one was listening to me, “Mom, your hands have magic. When I try to make milk with chocolate powder for myself, it never becomes as yummy as when you make. What’s the reason? Is it your love? Haha. Love always makes everything better!”Coming out of the memories of my college days, my eyes fell on the picture kept in the same showcase, in which I was receiving the prize from District Education Officer for winning the handwriting competition among the teachers. It reminded me of the memory of success in my career. FlashbackI returned home after finishing my duty in a private school. I knocked at the door. My mom opened the door and let me in. Suddenly, my mom said to me, “There is a big surprise for you.” She was beaming. I asked her, “Tell me mom.”My mom – No, I am not going to tell you like that. Aman – What kind of surprise is that? My mom – No, first come here. Aman – Where mom? My mom – In front of our little temple. Aman – Okay. My mom and I came into our little temple that we had made in our home. The speciality of our temple was that, therein lied the pictures of almost all gurus together like Jesus Christ, Gautam Buddha, Lord Mahavira, Shri Krishan ji etc. I always loved the university in diversity model of our little temple. We joined our hands and closed our eyes. (If you liked this part, then please don't forget to comment on it.)