Happy Birthday Vasuda`

This is such a long pending post. I have been meaning to write a little something about my friend Vasuda for quite some time. Our story is pretty cool. We have known each other from the time we were born. Obviously it took us time to figure out that we were meant to be such great friends. But yes we knew about each other's existence since then. Our mothers were best friends in college and theirs is a 40 year old friendship ( OH  MY GOD!!I did not realize this fact until right now ) Me and Vasuda have met on various occasions while we were kids and once we met right before I started college in Symbiosis and we spoke a bit. Then we met when I was in Bangalore for work and we spoke a little more. Then she came down to Hyderabad for her ISB interview and we spoke a lot. She came down to Hyderabad for something else and we spoke and spoke and spoke..And over the past few years she has really become this perfect companion for me. Though we stay in different cities, she in Bangalore and me in Hyderabad, it has never really stopped us from connecting. Our phone conversations have set new records. People at my place know that they should leave me alone for the next few hours if am on call with Vasuda. A lot of people who know me would rate me as a very confident person. Vasuda does too and we keep joking about my over confidence issues as well. But there is one thing that I have always wanted to tell her. I am this confident and strong and bold because of a handful of people in my life. People who have instilled this confidence in me. They never did it consciously. They did it very effortlessly. Primarily these people are my family. My parents and of course my brother. I am who I am today because of them. But once I became an adult I definitely needed some more people to continue boosting my confidence. It was really important to me that a few others felt the same way about me as my family did. And I am fortunate that I found this confidence in a few best friends who have helped me retain my arrogance:P And Vasuda is one person who does this with such consistency. Every phone call with her makes me feel good about myself. She agrees with all my mad theories and opinions. She has always been proud of me and has motivated me in so many different ways. I know how much she likes to listen /read about herself so I will specifically mention the best things about her: She is really funny ( which means she can make jokes and she can understand my jokes as well ) She is very patient and a great great listener ( If you are confused about something call her , she will show so much interest in your confusion -its freaky, very few people care that way ) She is very honest about how she feels and is very open to suggestions ( you can tell her anything and she will take it the right way..I never have to think if its the right thing to say. I can just say it and I know she will take it in the right spirit. ) She is super intelligent( I told you right? She gets all my jokes and finds me funny as well , all criteria to test intelligence passed) She is a really good person at heart ( She cannot hurt anybody ever and she is really harmless and innocent and not at all arrogant or rude or any of those things that I would use to describe myself )

One thing that I have always sulked about is her gifting ideas (these intangible gifts!) I have made it so clear to her that I don't like intangible gifts that now I don't get that either!!  Just to show her how frustrating it is to get a poem as a birthday gift I am giving her this zen tangle drawing as a bday gift :P There! I had my sweet revenge finally! Stare at this painting all that you want! End of the day you will realize a gift voucher is much prettier :P Happy Birthday Babes!