I recently joined a tech company in Bangalore and at that time I was 21 and everyone else who was around me was at least eight years older than me. So I started feeling quite left out and for days I used to sit alone, eat alone and even I was having my coffee all alone.

Then one day a guy whose last name was Ranganathan (I am forgetting the first name) came to me and said that he sits opposite of my cubical and he was told that I was good in analytics so he needs some help from me.

Tell me who in this world does not want to have an exhibition of his talent. I agreed upon helping him. Soon after I was spending most of the time on his desk. He became a friend of mine. We started having lunch together and coffee together. We used to hang out on the weekend. Although he was forty he was as jolly as I was.

It looked quite off to hang with someone who is 19 years older than you but yes... it was fun.

One day he sent me an email that he will not be coming to the office for the next two weeks and there is some pending work that I have to take care of. Also in the last line, he mentioned that his wife had a daughter. I reciprocated with the congratulations on the email.

Out of courtesy, I thought of visiting his house along with the gift for her daughter. I googled newborn gift ideas...clueless... I ended up buying chocolates. I went to his 2BHK flat. He used to live with his wife and one son and his mother was visiting him because of the baby's birth.

His mother looks unhappy as the girl child was born, his wife was the contrast. I gifted chocolates to his wife. Tried talking in a baby tone with his daughter. And then I congratulated Ranganathan who was standing on his balcony. I said that "You don't look happy." "Neither I am sad", he replied. I asked him what happened. He said nothing.

I started wondering about what must have happened. He looked at me smiling and said, "No big deal, everyone borns."