Expecting the Unexpected!!!

LIBA's two day national symposium "INSIGHT'09" was one of the most amazing conferences I have ever been to....i suppose it was awesome because of the efforts that went into in making it BIG!...the struggle to get media partners for a conference that technically had no media partners in the last 3 years, since its inception, was tremendous...I gave it my best shot, although there were times I felt that I probably needed to be more efficient...And we got a gr8 response this year...5 media partners!
I am a person who has always loved appreciation for the deeds I do, but i have never expected to be appreciated...I knw that sounds pretty paradoxical, but its not!...
I guess I am this way coz of my dad. He never appreciated anything I ever did, infact would criticize almost everything I ever did, even though I was admired by the rest of the world. I have always been this above average guy for every1 around me, including my mom,...but not for my dad, period! :) :) :) :) :)
So this time when one of my prof. was thanking every1 for the efforts put in for the conference I didnt expect any appreciation.My name was barely heard the first time he said it. He moved on to the next name as though my name was there on that sheet of paper just for the sake of being there,like the many others who joined the Insight team for the heck of it & absolutely didnt work for it...
So there I was,in the last row(coz I was finalizing some stuff and reached right at the end) , feeling some what miserable but not showing it.....But there was someone who knew exactly what was going on inside my head. & belive me I could be quite the poker face when I want to be. And there was noway this person could've found out that I was troubled by this situation from my expressions...This person went on wit the aspect that it was so unfair that I didnt receive the appreciation that I deserved...I guess thats how true friends are, they stand up for you when the whole world thinks you dont exist anymore!...
After a while, this same prof. asked the prominent people who made this conference a huge success to come up on the dice and say a few words to an audience that easily exceeded 400 delegates. And as the members of the core team were being called one by one and said what they had to say, I was sinking deeper although this friend was constantly not letting me cripple down...
..and then it happened, THE UNEXPECTED!...this prof. simply called out my name to say a few words...& for a minute I couldnt believe what was happening,bcoz all the students who previously went up there too share their experience were all seniors and in the core Insight team, and I was not!...It came as a shock, and the walk to the podium from the last row was much more difficult than it looked!...my hands were trembling, perhaps still recovering from the initial setback...and when I was up there it felt gr8!!
I will never forget this friend of mine who stood by me when I was down!
Cheers to true Friendship! :)