Man was not meant to live alone. Neither was woman for that matter. Atleast that's what the Bible says. NOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!! DON'T LEAVE!!! I am not going to preach today.
I was talking to a friend of mine over the phone and I was complaining about how I had not yet made it to a nearby hill station in spite of having been here for the last 6 months or so. The reason that I gave her was that I did not have any friends to go along with. And I definitely did not want to go up into the hills on a soujourn and search for my destiny.
It isn't that I don't have any friends here..it is that I don't have the kind that I would like to accompany me to a hill station on a weekend break*. Ann then suggested,very politely, that perhaps I should stop sitting in front of this PC all the time and that I should perhaps look to meet such kind of people. Problem again..
I have often wished that life were like a movie**..there if you are a guy and you walk into a bar, then you definitely will find a single woman sitting there..It need not be a bar. It could be a train, it could be a plane (No..it could not be a bird or Superman!!), it could be a supermarket..heck! you could be dying, or close to it atleast, and chances are that a pretty nurse will nurse you back to life and more (it is TRUE!! Read A Farewell to Arms)..
But then life is not a movie. Come to think of it, it is more like a documentary. Only difference being, you do not hear the omnipresent narrator’s voice hanging over the whole proceedings.
In real life (or in my life atleast) :
1)If I walk into a bar, I see clouds of smoke and tables cluttered with men and beer bottles. Women, if seen at all, are seen at more expensive pubs and discos. At the former, they are NEVER alone. At the latter, well, I don’t see myself going there anytime during this lifetime atleast.
2)If I am traveling on a train, I generally find myself sharing my compartment with lovey dovey couples, or a family (noisy irritating brat included), or 3-4 grim, morose looking men, or women old enough to be my grandmas. As for women in my age group being present, if I have been a really good boy for the past month, then I do get the good fortune of seeing one in the vicinity. But they always seem to be accompanied by one of those morose looking gentlemen I told you about.
3)Supermarket: No angel has bumped her shopping cart into mine so far! Hell, I haven’t been shopping in one of them places where you get a cart! Hell again!! I never have enough money to buy things that would occupy both my hands leave alone a shopping cart!!
4)Hospitals: I don’t even wanna go into the topic.
So then, what am I to do? Walk out on to the streets with a board that screams “Please Mingle –I am Single” ?
I am not at all complaining about my being single. That would be outrageous..ok I take that back. It would not be outrageous, it would be ..let’s say…inappropriate. I love my life right now..It’s good to be able to not think about someone else ALL the time. It is good to be able to talk to someone without a certain someone ELSE wanting to know what exactly you were talking to the first one about and why you did not want to talk about it to the second one. And it is good to be able to go out with just about anybody (assuming you have a choice of course) rather than having to go out with the SAME person all the time. Conclusion: It’s good to be single too…
But there are days and then there are days….
Shain
* I meant just a weekend...if you had anything more adventurous in mind then you have been reading too many bad books lately!
** It has to be your movie mind you. You gotta be the protagonist/hero..if you happen to be on the wrong side, then the director help you!
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