Straight from the gut!

I'm a guy who grew up in a joint family with a lot of(around 20) people around. During my school days, I never had to care for anything as I never faced any emotional block.
This gave me an advantage of being a social person but didn't exactly made me emotionally independent. I was happy with my truly happy life till the time I had to leave my house for a job.
I thought I was ready to take any challenge as my thinking was confined to my family but things turned out to be different when I started off with managing myself.
I went to Hyderabad with a great deal of ambitions and expectations from myself . I was heading quite fine with my path but somehow I was not able to manage the emotional stress. It was difficult to end up emotional dependency of 21 years in just 6 months. Situation got worse when a girl came in and went away of my life.
We were friend(online) for quite a long time. I started to like being with her and we stuck the chord. We decided to meet but I was already smitten by her.
I was on the pick of joy and life seemed to be perfect.
Finally we met and things started turning out to be not what they seemed to be like. And after 2 months of emotionally straining relation, we(she) called it off.
That was a rude shock for me as I never imagined this to happen with me. When I look back now, I feel I lost a good friend while searching for virtual happiness of having a girlfriend. Life was too perfect to be a trouble when I was single and in myself.
Since then, I started over-analyzing things around and became bit reluctant to meet new people as I thought it would deepen the pain and affect my career. I started being afraid of relations that didn't exist.
Then I started working on it and decided to get back to life. I got a tremendous support from my friends, family and myself. The best thing that worked for me was the relocation to Mumbai from Hyderabad. It took me closer to my friend circle and family than quite an isolated life in Hyderabad.
Now, I'm back to normal life and enjoying it. Though I have not came out of depression fully, things are quite better now. There was a time a year back when my confidence was at it's peak, I think I would enjoy the same feeling soon.
I wish to thank my family and friends to help me coming out of the situation. I especially thank Amruta, Hrishikesh, Purushottam, Sanket and a new friend cum sister Ketki to help me move on. I have got a real good friend in this journey and I dedicate this post to her(Tanvee).
I learned a lot in this journey tat I did in 16 years of education. And the best part I learnt was not to expect anything from anyone and keeping life in perspective.