That First Laughter

Sometimes a laughter heard for the first time gives a feeling like it is been in your ears for a long time. And when this laughter is expressed by a girl then it seems to be the most innocent and cute expression which makes this monotonous world live in a spree of happiness.

I am sure a lot of you must be thinking, why most of the times I have something to write about females. Well, the wise answer to this question will be, I express well when it comes to females and also it feels good to know that so much opposite sexual orientation has surrounded me. 😛

So this is a friend whom I know for more than 5 – 6 years now. We have never met but Facebook always kept us in touch. We came to know each other while we were members of AIESEC way back in 2011. AIESEC is an international organization which empowers the youth across the world and provides international internship opportunity to students of colleges and universities. While we joined AIESEC our job role was to match students of different countries for inviting them to our countries. Oh yes, just to let you all know, this friend of mine is from JORDAN and not from India. And our bond has been strong as we always discussed Indian and Jordanian culture on Facebook chat, now addressed as Facebook Messenger.

Well, it started with a friend request which I don’t clearly remember who sent it that time, but I’m pretty sure my desperation in AIESEC of connecting with people across the world must have influenced me to send it. Since that day we discussed our friends, family, a little bit of AIESEC work and our lives in the far off countries. I recently realized that I guided her for different things in life in these years and she was the one with whom I could ask anything irrespective of the fear of being judged and she supported me well. Our conversations in start were so long that we didn’t stop for 3 – 4 hours and kept on chatting but as time went on both of us got occupied in our lives but always kept ourselves informed about the happenings and surroundings. And during all this time we didn’t realize that we never spoke on phone (Not that we both had lots of money to spend on international calls but we never considered options like Messenger Call, Skype, and GTalk. Also, WhatsApp Call came just a year back so the option of speaking on call was always neglected by both of us).

It was when I reached the US and started writing again, she liked my post on Facebook and we started chatting again and it just hit me that we never spoke on phone. I sent her text saying that how come we never spoke on phone and within a moment my phone screen was blinking with her name on Messenger App. I felt overwhelmed to see that my friend was eager to talk to me and was somewhat waiting to ask me to call her! She is from Jordan and I have never known a person from that country. I have known some Arabic friends but no female friends and she were the first one. I was expecting a Hey or Hello but to my surprise, she welcomed our first conversation with the most beautiful expression in this world. This expression, when heard from an infant, enlightens the dullest part and the same happens when a girl lets this expression flow. Well, she just started the conversation with Laughter! Her First Laughter, the first expression and an ecstatic welcome for the first conversation by her.

For a small moment, I felt like a solute in the solvent of her laughter and forgot the things going around me. I heard a friend laughing and happy to speak with me after such a long time. Yes, I know stupid small things like these make me happy, I told you in “I.. SELF REALIZATION”, I am that way!

When she was laughing I completed forgot that I will be dealing with an Arabic accent now which is even more difficult than the American Accent to understand and she spoke for the first time and I had to make her repeat her first sentence again! Trust me it was really embarrassing. But within a minute we both were talking about all we used to discuss when we started this Indo – Jordanian relation of friendship. We talked about how crazily we used to chat day and night on our desktops (laptops were kind of luxury back then, at least for me it was). She then asked me about my course in the US and coincidently she is also studying the same which is Finance and if the stars supported us then she will be in the USA next year for her internship and I will be able to meet my friend.

During our conversation, she informed me about few things which I never knew or may be never realized. What she said came as a sweet surprise for me. A lot of friends of mine know that I write but I never got a suggestion, advice or guidance to move ahead in writing or may be never heard this from anyone which she said. She said: “Rakshit you have a real talent for writing and you should not waste it. You should write more often and read more often. You should have a dedicated Snapchat, Facebook, Instagram, and other social media platforms so the world whom you don’t know will know about you. You deserve a lot better and you will do wonders in life”. Listening to all this made me do one thing and that is thinking more about writing and no matter how tired I am, I try to aggregate my thoughts and write. I now try to implement things and words which I have used or heard the entire day. I will soon come up with the dedicated social media platforms and use the marketing which I have learned in my experience for promoting my own work.

The second thing she said was that I have always been her leader and guided her for her best moves in life. I didn’t know if I was really doing that but her words proved that. I am glad that my words made her life better.

After talking to her for the first time I realized how much innocence and care this girl holds in her heart. That’s a very a rare act and a rare thought, people have these days in their heads and hearts.

I even told her that I want to write a book on Finance for people who are new to the industry but I have still not developed the skills to write a book, not that I have not tried writing one but couldn’t connect once I leave the work and a book cannot be written in one shot. And she gave such a simple idea to solve this problem. She told me to create another blog on finance and start posting the content like the everyday story and may be later this can be converted into a book. And now I do not have to bother about having an end as the knowledge of Finance is limitless so it can flow till my heart beat goes on.

I told her that I didn’t see any place in the US yet and she asked me not waste time and I have decided not to waste my time and do something constructive and for the same reason I have joined the Meet Ups and will be going to different meet ups as per the interest groups I have selected. This way I can meet new people and visit new places.

You know when things like these happen with you, it makes you feel that the god is watching you from somewhere and he is there to pat your back and support you and make you happy. Sometimes they send us friends who inspire us, enlighten us and give us their First Laughter! 🙂