I really used to laugh at it when people used to say: "How the world is getting smaller" or "How small the world had become" and then go on telling about the advances in travel, tele-communications or the advent of the internet. Well not any more. Like Grace Murray Hopper said: "If you do something once, people will call it an accident. If you do it twice, they call it a coincidence. But do it a third time and you've just proven a natural law.". It all began one quite afternoon as I was chatting with my friend, Sumit Ambokar. Not many people know where I hail from, until I tell them. And even then not many people realise that I was in Mumbai, when it was still called Bombay, for 6 long years. So continuing with the incident, Sumit and I were talking about our past. Where we come from, where we studied etc... Well at one point I tell Sumit that I was in Mulund, Mumbai and he gets all excited... Really... Where in Mulund... And in the end we realise that we had attended same 10th standard tutorials!!! Mahesh Tutorials!!! Wow, what an accident, I say to myself.
The next time something like this happened to me was in summer. My roomie, Harsha's, buddy Amar Desai moved into our apartment as a temp. Well from the day he moved in I had some kind of deja-vu about him. Couple of days go by and he settles into my place... One night over the dinner, I have same kind of discussion with Amar as I had with Sumit... Well he was from Borvili, studied at SS Ajmera High School, was in 6th Standard A section... What's the point I am getting to? Well even I was in Borvili, studied at SS Ajmera High School, was in 6th Standard A section... Get the Point! This guy used to sit couple of benches in front of me!!! Well what a co-incidence, huh!!!
The next Fall, Avinash Achar moves into my building. Well, I know he was from NITTE in Karkala, but after coming to know him better, I realise that we have like 10 common friends, he is a close friend of Usha, Shilpa and Smitha and we have never seen each other before! Well am I proving a natural law here?
When I went back to India in December, I used to hang around with my bestest buddy Vikram a.k.a. Mastaan. We have been good buddies for a long time. So like always we were talking about India, about the US and so on...
Out of the blue, he says: "Dude, one of my ex-coworker just joined USC"
I say: "OK..." He still goes on, "His name is Shailesh Ramaswamy. He wears glasses and is from Mumbai."
I just stare at him for a minute and then say: "Don't do this to me..."
Well as it turns out Shailesh is a really good friend of mine, stays next door and comes to my place like every other day!!!
Yep, and thus another natural aw is proved. Well after I left USC, I said to myself that this chain of co-incidences has finally ended. Compared to USC the real world is a really, really big place. As destiny would have it, I was again proved wrong. The world is really a small place.
On Friday, I met Kiran. She has also joined the same office where I work. Well As usual, after some nicities, I ask her where are you from? She says: "Bangalore, But I am basically from Mangalore" Myself: "Hmmm, really!!!" She goes on, "Well I graduated from NITTE" Me: "Wow". So I ask her "Where did you do yor PU?" She beams a broad smile, it was actually that fate was smiling at me, and says "Canara PU College"
I stand there, shocked to the core!!! Can this be real? Is the world really getting small? Will people be commuting from India to San Francisco by 2020?
In anycase, unlike Amar, she was one year senior to me. But I might have actually bumped into her couple of times.
So my advice is, Look around guys!!! You don't know when and where you will meet the person you just bumped into, again!!!
Nithin Kamath
www.nithinkamath.net
The next time something like this happened to me was in summer. My roomie, Harsha's, buddy Amar Desai moved into our apartment as a temp. Well from the day he moved in I had some kind of deja-vu about him. Couple of days go by and he settles into my place... One night over the dinner, I have same kind of discussion with Amar as I had with Sumit... Well he was from Borvili, studied at SS Ajmera High School, was in 6th Standard A section... What's the point I am getting to? Well even I was in Borvili, studied at SS Ajmera High School, was in 6th Standard A section... Get the Point! This guy used to sit couple of benches in front of me!!! Well what a co-incidence, huh!!!
The next Fall, Avinash Achar moves into my building. Well, I know he was from NITTE in Karkala, but after coming to know him better, I realise that we have like 10 common friends, he is a close friend of Usha, Shilpa and Smitha and we have never seen each other before! Well am I proving a natural law here?
When I went back to India in December, I used to hang around with my bestest buddy Vikram a.k.a. Mastaan. We have been good buddies for a long time. So like always we were talking about India, about the US and so on...
Out of the blue, he says: "Dude, one of my ex-coworker just joined USC"
I say: "OK..." He still goes on, "His name is Shailesh Ramaswamy. He wears glasses and is from Mumbai."
I just stare at him for a minute and then say: "Don't do this to me..."
Well as it turns out Shailesh is a really good friend of mine, stays next door and comes to my place like every other day!!!
Yep, and thus another natural aw is proved. Well after I left USC, I said to myself that this chain of co-incidences has finally ended. Compared to USC the real world is a really, really big place. As destiny would have it, I was again proved wrong. The world is really a small place.
On Friday, I met Kiran. She has also joined the same office where I work. Well As usual, after some nicities, I ask her where are you from? She says: "Bangalore, But I am basically from Mangalore" Myself: "Hmmm, really!!!" She goes on, "Well I graduated from NITTE" Me: "Wow". So I ask her "Where did you do yor PU?" She beams a broad smile, it was actually that fate was smiling at me, and says "Canara PU College"
I stand there, shocked to the core!!! Can this be real? Is the world really getting small? Will people be commuting from India to San Francisco by 2020?
In anycase, unlike Amar, she was one year senior to me. But I might have actually bumped into her couple of times.
So my advice is, Look around guys!!! You don't know when and where you will meet the person you just bumped into, again!!!
Nithin Kamath
www.nithinkamath.net
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