Today morning, I came to the office as usual at 8.30 am. I suspected nothing. 2 hours later, I was subjected to a shock, one of the most terrible ones of my life. One of my colleagues gave me this news - that a terrible, most unexpected thing happened just today morning. It was to do with one of my other colleagues, one of my closest, who I worked with for the past 2 years - Suresh Alapati. He passed away today morning due to a cardiac arrest in a local hospital. I am trying hard to cope up with this news; it is really unbelievable that I can never ever see him again in my life on this earth.
I liked him, I hated him over the past two years, for several things. We went together to the US during the last year, on official purposes and stayed together in the same apartment. This was the time, I interacted ever so closely with him. He basically is a very sensible guy, but only with certain eccentric habits to his nature. He was a chain smoker and a drop-dead alcoholic till he recently got married. Then, all of sudden, about a few months before he got married, he stopped all that. While he was in the US, he didn't touch a drop of alcohol. What, he didn't even bite a piece of non-vegeterian food. He was so determined that if he wants something done, he definitely had it done. This is the best thing I liked in him.
He was one of those rarest guys who was so down to the earth and interact freely with almost anybody. He didn't have any pride or prejudice about anything. He didn't bother about his 'status' as a software engineer, but just went about joking casually with just about everybody at our company, including the office boys, cleaning people, security guards. He was a favorite of all these people and their faces will get lit up when they see him, for he always treated them with dignity and as equals to himself. He always used to address such people as buddies in their slang language, like nobody else I ever noticed to do.
Shouldn't this guy have lived more in this world. Perhaps, fate didn't want him to. There is a saying in our part of the world that GOD calls back those people who he feels closer to his heart than others, faster. At least for the time being, we can all believe it is true and console ourselves...
May his soul rest in peace...
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Indeed, this was a very shocking news to me. It is still hard to believe that such a thing has happened. Also, I strongly remember that we were discussing about a GOC team outing just the previous weekend for a few hours before going home, and never in my wildest dreams thought that it would be the last time I was speaking with Suresh Alapati. I think "LIFE" is one thing which we take for granted and such incidents only make us think again!
May his soul rest in peace!!!
~Amaresh
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