Adieu - Hyderabad

I have now left Hyderabad. These few words fill my heart with sorrow as well as excitement. It has been four days since I bid farewell to Hyderabad – I am still not able to understand how I am feeling.

Now as I sit here in my home in Belgaum and think about Hyderabad, I feel happy beyond measure. What makes it even more memorable is the type of sendoff I got. Every person I met in the last few days seemed to be sad that I am leaving. Entire office came together to get a wonderful gift for me. Venkat was kind enough to make a painting himself and give me as a sendoff gift (it took him one week to make that painting). I felt great joy when Amol remembered that I simply love to own a Swiss knife and purchased one for me. My roommates too brought an expensive, stylish and a portable USB drive. Silly as it might seem now, the married people in our office brought me lunch for the entire last week of my stay. It was their way of telling me – We will miss you.

It is not the number of gifts, nature of gifts or the price of the gift that mattered. It is the love, care, and friendship that they have for me that made my heart choke. No doubt, I cried along with the closest of my friends when I left Hyderabad. I will never ever forget my stay in Hyderabad.