Circle of Life

Prologue: I believe life is in the form of a circle. It is long enough to make sure every dot is connected to give you a full circle. Why I am saying this? Over the past few years, several incidents happened, which made me to buy this philosophy. This is one of them. Its not every day you find out that one of your client managers is your friend’s brother.

A few days to 29^th July 2016:

Scene# 1

A friend of mine texted that he is coming to New York airport on 21^st of August, to attend a small function at his brother’s home in Norwalk. I told him that I would pick him up from airport and drop him. His brother is now a father.

Scene# 2

A manager in my company – Mr.S, was on leave for a week. He had twin baby girls. Photos were also circulated in our office emails.

29^th July 2016:

Scene# 3

Couple of team mates who have been with this client since more than 2 years are moving out. To bid them a farewell, early dinner was arranged at a restaurant. S made it a point to have a team meeting in this fashion. As per the norm of icebreaking, S was asking our backgrounds. He already knew that I am from Hyderabad.

S   : So bharath, where are you from in Hyderabad?

Me : You have idea about Manikonda? I stay there.

S   : Which school have you been to?

Me : XXXXX school in Dilsukhnagar.

S   : Is it??!! I‘m also from the same school

Me : Oh nice to hear that!! I stayed in kothapet for about 10 to 12 years
       , after which I moved to Manikonda.

S   : Oh Kothapet???!!!! I stayed near kothapet itself. Where in kothapet?

Me : Oh…!!! You have idea about Huda Complex?

S   : Oh yesss!!

Me : XXXXXXX apartments there. 
        My entire child hood is in kothapet itself and all my friends too.

S   : Oh what a strange thing..!! 

       I stayed in Vijayapuri colony but I came to Kothapet to visit my brother 

       and sister regularly. 

       They stayed in Badam Apartments.

Me : Oh !!! its adjacent to my apartment lane. (my eyes widened)

S   : ha ha.. yes.. pretty nice…!!! In which college were you in engineering?

Me : from XXXX college in computer science. I was a student of 2009 batch.

S   : Oh my brother also did engineering!! I guess about the same time!

Me : Oh which college is he from?

S   : xxxxxx college

Me : (I started smelling something)

       This college? I have many of my friends from this college. 

       Are you sure that he is from 2009 batch? Which branch?

S   : yes.. He should be from 2009 batch and I guess its computer science.

Me : Then I would certainly know him 

       or at least my friends would know him for sure.

S   : Seriously?!! He is coming down to meet me next month, 

       as there is a get together here.

Me : (I doubt if he is my friend Mr.A) what is your brother’s name?

S   : It’s A

Me : A what ? is it A. K. ?

S   : Yes. Yeah it is..!!

Me : Ha ha ha ha ha.. I know him from my childhood. We are close buddies.!!

S   : ha ha ha ha.. Really? Oh world is too small. What a great coincidence! 

       So we have been living in parallel all these years.

Me : It’s a small world indeed..! That is a really surprising thing..!

I then remembered that I was at his marriage and showed a group photo also, which was emailed by my friend and the original source of the photo was from S.!!! I went to his marriage but I don’t even remember his face. Crazy! I was going to pick up my friend and drop him at his house.. A truly unexpected bump!

I was genuinely amused at the findings and so was he. After wrapping up the farewell dinner, he called me aside and spoke lot of things.

It was altogether a new experience for me. I am viewing the same person in 2 different angles now – one, as a hard-hitting manager and the other one as an intelligent and passionately working friend’s brother.

యెండమూరి గారు ఆనందోబ్రహ్మ నవల లో చెప్పినట్టు “అదో గొప్ప అనుభవం”