I, Me, Myself

The following article has been written after "getting into our beloved Bhatti's shoes". For those who dont know him, Bhatti is - the centre of fun-poking of every group; falling in love like pat-jhad leaves, they just keep on falling endlessly every season; rising like a phoenix and again falling for next girl that he sees; never listening to Anurag, the wise one - kinda guy.

So when i say "getting into his shoes", i mean to imply that i have interpreted his today's status message keeping his above mentioned image in my mind.

So, Bhatti's today's status message read:

"Three main ingredients of happiness are; something to do, someone to love and something to hope for".

1.) Something to do: Bhatti is vehla these days. Absolutely no work. And sure as hell this time around he is not devoting his time (for the first time) running errands for his lady love. Some of the earlier errands being getting up at 6 in the morning to help her catch a bus - what the hell was that.

2.) Someone to love: I presume here that someone is just "one" and not "many". But in Bhatti's case we all know that this number can never be 1. It has and will always be more than 1.

3.) Something to hope for: For me Bhatti's hopes are - A tear shed for him in loneliness; a thought devoted to him and his loyalty :) ; a smile appropriated to his supposed sense of humour; a look at his orkut or facebook profile to get rid of that gut-wrenching pain of wanting to know what he is up to; a scan through good old happy-couple pictures to get a glimpse of him; assuming the roles of protagonists while watching a movie and savouring the voyeuristic pleasure of being with him; undertaking a journey back in time or in future with bhatti holding her head in her lap and gently caressing her, his minto-fresh breath wandering in her hair like a humming morning breeze...etc etc

So going by above three parameters, Bhatti should not be happy; but he is, he definitely is. And as Bhatti's best friend (Yes Bhatti I am your best friend. Though you will always say it is Nandu), I am hereby taking liberty to divulge and dawn upon him and any other senti souls like him the reasons for his happiness:

1.) Something to do: He is preparing for his upcoming stay in US, going for his MS.

2.) Someone to love: For the first time in his life he is loving himself ahead of any other damn soul on this earth.

3.) Something to hope for: He is hoping to do well for himself and his family after completion of his studies. He is hoping to get ahead in the race to be AOL's chief-of-staff. He has already assumed the role of AOL's face i.e. their marketing guy. (This is in reference to his very honest and convincing mail about joining AOL a few days back. Some of us had the divine fortune of being the recepients of his first ever marketing initiative.)

So to sum it all up, as per my theory, three main ingredients of happiness are - I, Me, Myself. Screw everyone else.