Last evening I got the tragic news that my friend Mehmood had passed away a little while earlier. I had known Mehmood for about three years thanks to Misfit, my theater group. During the time I knew him, Mehmood was the man trying to make everyone smile, with his jokes and charismatic way of talking.

As I traveled to pay my respects, all I could think of were different instances of speaking to him and being with him. I recollected the last time I saw him and that instance was the fondest memory I had of him. That was the last conversation I had with him and it is something I have to share with everyone…

The incident happened about a month and half ago, we were leaving my friend Vishal’s birthday party. I was dropping him home and I have the habit of speaking a lot with the person sitting behind me on the bike. That day I asked him a question I had asked a few of my friends “What was the most special moment of your life?” Mehmood thought for a moment and I explained to him that I wanted him to think of all the special moments of his life and pull out one moment he thought that was the most unique, beautiful and for him the most treasured…

He narrated to me this incident from his life:
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