Filled NT form together, 8 years later met as strangers

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In 2001 they had submitted examination form for Naib Tehsildar together as friends, planning to get married. Eight years later they met at the examination centre as long lost friends.

Eight years after the candidates submitted the forms for the first time in 2001, every individual had a story to tell about what happened in their lives during that long wait.Hilal Shah (name changed), one of the candidates narrates a peculiar tail of the ‘waiting for the exams.’

“It is an emotional rejuvenation of friendship. I felt I had three hearts and my body could hardly hold them. I revisited the era I have always treasured,” expresses Shah who met a lost friend with whom he was planning to marry eight years now but destiny had different plans for the both.

“I was in a relation with a girl with whom I had planned to marry in 2001. We submitted the form together in 2001 and were planning for living the happy life,” narrates Shah who was sipping a cup of coffee at a famous café in Lal Chowk after appearing in the exams.But somehow the relation could not work and the two parted ways in 2002.

“It was horrible as we had made plans for the years to come. But destiny had something else in store for us,” says Shah and now his friend joins in the conversation.“It was a terrible break-up. But I think we had no choice but to part ways,” she remembers who is now married and has a child as well. Her driver is carrying the baby along.

Shah is still looking for the job and could not believe his eyes when his friend was sitting next to him in the examination centre.“We never met after 2002. We lost complete track of each other until we met today. Today it seemed rendezvous,” sighs Shah whose eyes were moist, but somehow tried to hold his tears ‘Men don’t cry isn’t it’, he says.

In a lighter tone his friend soliloquized, “Two of us have not put on weight, we sound the same, and we knew who we were without a single bit of double takes.”Sharing few moments in the café, both left toward their homes without recalling a single sentence from their shared past.

NT examination was more than an exam itself. It witnessed the reunion of old friends, renewed hope of job in people at the verge of being over age, mothers attending exams with their children, fathers preparing along with their children and pregnant ladies fighting to remember things along with the joy of going to be the would be mothers.