#lifeofaengineer

Your "GOODBYE" is the worst thing that will ever happened to us, because we all knew you will never say "HELLO" again.

Fiction or a Real life incident left for the readers to decide.

Let me give you the introduction of the characters first:

The narration encircles in and around Bangalore,

Guy1 : A person from an average middle class family not rich as expected but able to lead a peaceful life with a few trusted people around typical average Indian family, finished his engineering in one of the local college and started working in IT sector providing custom developments, on demand solutions, advanced analytics many of the clients he handled started giving more projects for the company, and as expected in a short span of time he was travelling all parts of India like a man on wheels earned his respect by his work, his world was his HOME-WORK-FAMILY. Many people used to say the best place to find him is in his home and nowhere else. A charm with in the friends, able to boost energy to the weakest of the weak, a leader in making. There was no second thought when there is major client to handle or a major work. Built a formidable team in the company which was able to handle any challenges thrown at them.

Guy 2: A person who was once from an average middle class family, completed his education from good colleges present in the capital of the city ( one of the school is in kormangala ), started working in a MNC in 2007, which was founded in a two-car garage in Palo Alto, was the world's leading PC manufacturer from 2007 to Q2 2013,  and a Fortune 500 ranking of 9 in 2009. Bought Palm, Inc. for $1.2 billion, he worked there in hardware ( as told by the girl to guy1) , in between due to the boom in real estate one of the builder has bought their property and built apartments as the land belonged to them they have some apartments in their name for which they earn quite a good amount of rent, their position in the society has changed now they have 2 cars ( one is skoda )and a bullet, he has a well-built puffed up body, he went to gym to reduce weight as he was totally over weight when he joined the company, owns a mansion with all the amenities, parties pubs are like his daily routine. Leading a life of a prince, with people ready to do his work in home.

About the girl we will see later.

Why I am writing this? Well it’s been months he (Guy1) just arrived from the capital of country back to his office with a project from one of the major players in the market he was so excited about the project since it threw lot of challenges to him and he has to finish it in a short span of time because he had one more project in the pipeline so he has to finish the first one and has to move to other one as soon as possible and both were miles apart in challenges. He was very excited, enthusiastic and all pumped up and was on full throttle ready to ride on top of anything which comes in between. He finished his first assignment and moved on to another one as planned it between I planned of meeting him I was so excited and many things were making rounds in my mind like what will he say after seeing since it’s been a quite some time. What does he may speak with all these things in my mind I started my bike and made a move towards his home, to my surprise he was going back to his home buying some stuff from the market nearby, the moment I saw him all my thoughts were vanished like smoke in the air because I found him in a condition which I never expected him to be and the people who know him will always say he is not the one, crying in the road walking, wiping his tears so that no body be able to find him crying. Became lean, popped up eyes, scrambled hairs and the worst part he has to hide his tears and pain from his parents. As soon as he entered in house he became normal hiding his tears from his mother helping her in some stuff like nothing has happened. He used to give me occasional look making me think to what extent this person can may go to keep his family happy. Keeping pain inside and able to laugh in front of others. I took him out and was able to find out what happened and the only way I found to keep it alive is through a social media.

It happened so that he came from one of the client (not the above mention 2 clients) and after a few days later he came in contact with this girl, the girl was pretty like many others they became friends and exchanged numbers initially he never used to respond to any of her calls or any messages she kept asking why he is reserved why can’t he talk like others she kept doing it again and again in a period of time they became too close to each other, in the morning they both used to get ready and leave home sometimes it used to be just message and sometimes it used  be a long call till both reach the office and start their respective work, and the evening was not different 11:40 PM used to be there sleeping time and in weekends she always used to find a way to talk to him either by coming out of the house by some reason or by message, once so happened that due to some network issue the messages were not getting delivered as soon as expected there used to be delay because of that she got angry and it took some time for him to make her realize what has happened and if he doesn’t pick the call when she calls him then there is used to scolding for him, but no fight used to last long they became too addictive for each other in their own manner she used to tell everything what has happened in her family the previous day, and everything about her family.

Now this guy became so used to her that he used to judge her mood by one single word which she used to talk. Don’t know how but he was able to predict the exact reason for her bad mood and it always turns out to be right funny isn’t it some people may laugh or say bull shit but it’s true he was doing it.

One fine day that was in between the second project which was mentioned earlier I don’t know the guts from where he got he said his opinion about her and to his surprise he came to know that she got engaged informally yesterday only the elders were having a word, she went home and they both planned to stop the proceedings at first she openly admitted that the guy2 is fat and she will not be a good match for him and she is not interested in him at all, these words were spoken in front of him by her. They both were so bonded to each other that they cried talking many things on that night. And she also said that she has a different kind of feeling on him.

He was all ready to speak to her parents but he didn’t wanted to hurt her and her family in any means so he kept quite thinking she will find a way out, and one fine day she says to him that he wants guy2 in her life and the reason ‘The jobs in a private company are not trustworthy no one knows when they are going to kick the person out, guy2 has houses which he receives rent and has a double income by this’ amazing isn’t it. He even shops with his sister. He tried explaining her in many possible ways but all was left for him was rejection. That was his last project he left his company, he left the profession which he liked the most. I still remember the intensity when he used to speak these words “I have a career not a job”. He rarely comes out of his room and when he does he don’t spend too much time outside.

He is fighting his own death to stay alive crying when he is alone, pretending nothing has happened in front of others and the worst part still making the people around him smile, laugh and keeping their spirits high. Once he told me it’s the happiness of that girl which he always wished for if she is happy what else do he need? I tried my level best to make him speak about the girl but in vain he kept saying ‘it has started with him and will end with him no one should ever in any case should know who she is, how she is, where she is, and what she does’ he never even said the first letter of her name nor he said how she looks like. In a few days she will be married and he will be dead. After seeing his condition I do spend as much with him as possible just to make him comfortable and make him believe we are with him. Because it’s hard to find true love and it’s harder to find a true friend.

No one in this case can be blamed. And hard to say who did a mistake, it’s just the situation the life throws on the person and the decision we take its sweet for one person and sour for the other. Please help us in keeping his memories alive.....................