India V/s Australia & Pakistan V/s Sri Lanka.

It was Sunday and we all met up at Rashesh's place (This guy still remains a reason for all of us meeting at his place). Mr & Mrs. Chandran, Mr & Mrs. Patil, Mr & Mrs. Pandit, Swami, Amit & me. All of us stayed there till the time he left and then moved to Kukda's place where we were supposed to have dinner and only Prashant, Ritanjali & me decided to actually go.

So far so good, but then I remembered it was the FINAL match of T20 world cup between Pakistan & Srilanka after we came downstairs at around 8.15 p.m and then every1 was involved in watching the match. I do not know how but later on somehow Prashant & me again started the whole debate of India V/S Australia and the whole other sort of things like education, being satisfied with what we have right now and stuff which I do not remember now.

While I love the fact that we both go on with our viewpoints and hardly agree on any matter, there is 1 thing, that I have clearly told Prashant earlier and he still has not improved on, which really pisses me off. I feel any debate, discussion or a healthy talk becomes a conversation only when both the people involved in it get time to present their viewpoints and the other person listens and tries to understand them. With Prashant its cutting me off while I speak, speaking his things in a louder voice and stuff whereby he tries to dictate the whole scene, which is something which I absolutely hate about him. I mean I know 1 of the methods of proving yourself right can be what he does but it does not work with every1 and certainly not in every situation. There are times when you might be considered rude and arrogant when you adopt that kind of practice in a discussion.

If you do not allow the other person to even speak, then you sure do not want to listen to what he is saying and understanding his viewpoint is a far off thing obviously in such a scenario. Its not about proving a point, not about winning or losing, but sadly thats how we are trained every step of our lives in India. Anyways the bottom line is we still share a great relationship as friends. And I am hoping just like the finals of The T20 world cup, this was a FINAL discussion/debate between us. And whne it comes to such discussions with Prashant, I can agree to disagree.

Looking forward to meeting more people in Australia who can fill in the void these guys will leave in my life,

H@rdeep.