Flashbacks: A Year To Remember (Part V): How I Met Pratip

It was that strange Wednesday when I met Pratip. Now, every friend group has guys and girls who are one of their kind. Pratip is the “Brilliant” guy among us. You can never predict what he is gonna do next. He can crack the worst PJs that can drive the most patient mind in this world go “GAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!!!” in no time, and he would have more of those up the sleeve. He is some guy who would do something with so innocence that you would lose track that if he doing something wrong. A heart with no complications (but his brain overflowing with it).

So, the first day of mine with them, I was all hesitant that they accepted me or not, we all went to that place that was our ‘Spot’, and there was all Clicking noises of the Camera that Aditi always kept with herself. So, among those clicking noise, there were occassional experiments. There was one time, when we handed Pratip the camera and asked to take a picture of all of us. He tried to click the picture, but it was after a while we realised that something was wrong and the next thing followed was cracked by Pratip (I will Quote the exact words): “Achha eta Video keno hochhe?” (Ahem, why is it recording a video?) and we all burst out laughing who were all sitting still a while ago posing for the supposedly Perfect shot. This was the earliest memory I have of Pratip.

Whenever Pratip calls any of us, this is his punchline: “Hello, I am Pratip Aditya speaking, may I speak to Samik Bhattacharya?” and our punchline used to be “I am so sorry, but you can’t speak to him.” And his next line will be “Oh, Samik, I was saying ki...” He is full of ideas and sometimes he would also speak things anyone would mistake as if he is drunk to the full, and would sometimes apply theories of Physics in almost everywhere that would drive almost all of nuts, but still, there is something about him that we never want to exclude him from anything.

Excitements never cease to show themselves when Pratip is around, but its usually Pratip who ends up getting bored. Memories with Pratip is nothing too big but, its strengthened by small bits of of innumerous pieces (of memories) and little events. He is very special to us, and when we made friends with him, we made friends with his silly temper rising jokes and his innocently caring nature too. There are not many things that happened the moment I met Pratip, but so many things that followed down the road, would sometimes make you kick him in the butt while make you burst your stomach with unstoppable laughter in the next, such that when you remember that incident one week later, you will burst again into that sort of laughter again. Pratip came to become one of my Best Friends and will always be even if I have to bear some of his annoying PJs most of the time...

Next Time: How I Met Urmi... Stay Tuned...

To Be Continued...