My best buddy- Sandeep

Long long ago, when I was a kid and a student of JNV, my father thought that I was doing everything in the hostel but study, so he took me out of Navodaya and kept me with himself. It is the story of class 9th. So, for the admission in the school whose principal was my father himself, I had to take a test; unfortunately or fortunately, I cleared that and I was admitted there. There I came to know Sandeep who became one of my best friends, quite a few I am left with.

I don’t remember exactly how we started talking but in a little time, we became good buddies. There was one more boy (still alive and kicking), Ajeet, who also became my friend and the next two years were kinda best years of my life. Both were very simple, humorous and good nature kids, though once Ajeet took blade from me and made a cut in the dhoti of one of our teachers; the teacher asked me who had done that (he was quite sure about the indulgence of Ajeet) and Sandeep was given the work of getting the dhoti stitched, but that was not a crime but vengeance, all of us were pretty much irritated by that teacher. There is one more story of Ajeet related to one other friend and his female friend but that’s none of my damn business.

Once I was expelled from the school because of some disciplinary actions and then it was Sandeep who stood for me. He was the one who despite of all the dissent from the teachers and most of the students, supported me and vouched for me to my father. Good thing, I was not expelled, thanks to Sandeep.

After High School, both went Gorakhpur for intermediate. We took a room but unfortunately, I became sick and then I took hostel and he returned his home town. When he came to Gorakhpur again for graduation with Ajeet, both asked me to live with them but I had to stay in hostel and then next year I went Greater Noida for engineering. In the meantime, Sandeep completed his graduation, and then B. Ed. from Meerut.

In High School, I regularly used to go his home, his parents were very kind to me, and they still ask me to come. Though after High School, I went there only once or twice.

In all these years, he has always been good to me, like a big brother.

I am quite happy for finding such a good friend.

I wish him good luck, God bless him.

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