Namesh looks like a normal 'cool' guy when you first meet him. He would walk towards you and greet with his special big smile. Post that, the usual 'Where are you from?' etc.
It takes maximum 5 minutes after you're done with introduction (etc.), and Namesh would suddenly have begun your odyssey into his stories - stories lived and experienced. Ups and downs not in books, but felt and lived through in the real raw reality of itself.
So he would talk about a day when after depressing work at a job (for which he's extremely overqualified btw), he travels 3.5 hours in a local to his house, and discovers that there's been a robbery. Laptop gone, along with his branded jeans. He still keep kicking and surviving though. Amidst losing 12 kgs on shifting to a new city, being cheated by the company which employed him, and spending most of the time travelling and working stuff he would do in his sleep, he keeps faith. It's as tough as easy it sounds. And you can see that in his eyes.
And so randomly he would mention being selected for a conference by United Nations (one of the three people globally), featured on his University's website, on a newspaper, his experience working on his project, how lucky he would be at times and how proud he is about all of it now. It's impossible to not get awed by extreme levels of down-to-earth humility and compassion to keep living in the real sense of it.
A beer afterwards, you realize a throat sore of talking so much. You realize finding someone who shares that adventurous crazy part of you, and who, unlike you, has really lived it. You start realizing how important THIS time is, and how THOSE are the stories you are going to remember 30, 40, 50 years from now. Not how well that random project you worked on which got x billion dollars to the company (if ever!).
Namesh is a star to be. A star for himself. A star for all of us who are luck to know him personally. A true Inspiratie.
-K
It takes maximum 5 minutes after you're done with introduction (etc.), and Namesh would suddenly have begun your odyssey into his stories - stories lived and experienced. Ups and downs not in books, but felt and lived through in the real raw reality of itself.
So he would talk about a day when after depressing work at a job (for which he's extremely overqualified btw), he travels 3.5 hours in a local to his house, and discovers that there's been a robbery. Laptop gone, along with his branded jeans. He still keep kicking and surviving though. Amidst losing 12 kgs on shifting to a new city, being cheated by the company which employed him, and spending most of the time travelling and working stuff he would do in his sleep, he keeps faith. It's as tough as easy it sounds. And you can see that in his eyes.
And so randomly he would mention being selected for a conference by United Nations (one of the three people globally), featured on his University's website, on a newspaper, his experience working on his project, how lucky he would be at times and how proud he is about all of it now. It's impossible to not get awed by extreme levels of down-to-earth humility and compassion to keep living in the real sense of it.
A beer afterwards, you realize a throat sore of talking so much. You realize finding someone who shares that adventurous crazy part of you, and who, unlike you, has really lived it. You start realizing how important THIS time is, and how THOSE are the stories you are going to remember 30, 40, 50 years from now. Not how well that random project you worked on which got x billion dollars to the company (if ever!).
Namesh is a star to be. A star for himself. A star for all of us who are luck to know him personally. A true Inspiratie.
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| Namesh - The one NOT in Woodland shoes |
-K
dude....u're making me blush!!!! :P :P nevertheless tons of gratitude for the praises!!!
ReplyDeleteThis is so amazingly written Karan! Kudos to you :)
ReplyDeleteI loved the line "It's impossible to not get awed by extreme levels of down-to-earth humility and compassion to keep living in the real sense of it", suits perfectly on Namesh Sir!
And Namesh sir, you are like this only! Indeed a true inspiration for people like me :)
Namesh u r a rockstar...
ReplyDeleteand karan dude u deserve beeers for this :)
Hope we meet soon Namesh and Karan !!!
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ReplyDeleteNamesh, you are the biggest hit of my life..and I feel so proud to be a part of your life. God bless you for all your endeavors. Thanks Karan for such a lovely post. It made my heart melt with happiness :)
ReplyDelete@arjun - thnks man!!!! u guys are making me into someone m really not!!!! d beauty lies in karan's words to turn me into some celebrity!!!!
ReplyDelete@aman - haha....thnks yaar....we'll meet for sure...
@teesta- thnks a ton dear!!!!
Arjun - Thank you brother. Sure, let us meet up sometime.
ReplyDeleteAman - Cheers!
Teesta :-)
Namesh - Mann mein laddo phoote ;-) :P
A wonderful post ! Nice reading about him and mind it he is always full of stories ! Be it about the stupid job , his house robbery or his UN trip . I wish u and the writer of the bog too all the bes ! :)
ReplyDeleteThanks for the beautiful wishes Poulami :-)
DeleteIts really an honor to have such a friend like Namesh. He is undoubtedly one of the best people I have ever met in my life. :)
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