Part 37: Expected and the reality!

I don’t know why suddenly my former senior Mr. Shivanand came to my mind when I was at Hampi because his brother stays there and Shivanand used to travel often to see him .But why I was so upset with Shivanand. If I think what he did was right. In today’s life every one thinks of earning more .So in that point of view he was right but I just couldn’t accept his decision .He used to earn almost 50,000 per month if still wants more means I thought it’s a sign of greed but why I should I get upset with that?

Sometimes I think the problem was not with him but it was with me because I thought himself as my future friend or may be as the person for when I was searching, I wanted to see him as the perfect person by all angles. It was my fault .Is there any perfect person in this world? I know, there cannot be any one but still I wanted my friends to be perfect by all angles. If I leave aside that decision of Shivanand, he was such a nice person who always used to share his personal life with me. He didn’t have any bad habit of smoking or drinking. Later I came to know that he took VRS by his Government job and happy, spending time with his family. Actually when he got transferred to Mumbai he didn’t want to be away by his family and that’s why he opted for VRS .He was the person who loved his family more than his profession. A kind of my Priyatam!

One more thing it was none other me who suggested the name ‘Anvita’ for his second daughter and he kept the same name for his daughter! So close we were! His first daughter’s name was ‘Akshita’. One more surprising thing is his younger brother Arvind was working at Delhi. The main reason for the split between us was the distance between the expected and the reality. I was expecting Shivanand to be perfect and I couldn’t accept the reality.

But in the same year I found a person who taught me where I was wrong. He showed me that problem is just the distance between the expected and the reality. So either expect less or accept the reality and the problem is no more.

Shocking reality was even his daughter’s name is Akshita. His younger brother too works at Dubai whose name is again 'Arvind'!!

One more fact that is purely accidental is both his and Shivanand’s wife’s native is Kerala. Thank god, their names are not same. But what to say for these kind of things? Accidental or miracle? I just say it is the reality. Nothing else accept the reality that’s it!


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