Friend: Happy birthday!
She : Haan...tha......nk yo....u...was just getting up from the bed.
Friend : Oh! That means I am the first to wish you!
She : Naa! He has already wished me at 12 in the night.
Friend : Who???
She : Come on, who else, Nitin.
Friend : Oh, ok. So, what's the plan for today?
She : Nitin told me that he has a surprise gift for me for my Birthday.
And also we are going to Flower Show today. I am excited! I have never
seen the flower show that happens in Lal Baug. Actually that itself is
the most wonderful gift for me.
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Friend : "Did you go to Palace grounds all the way from Basavanagudi, to
see Bryan Adam's show!!! Who accompanied you?"
She : Nitin
Friend : By the way, who referred your CV in SoCrates? I mean you don't
know anyone there, right?
She : No, he forwarded my CV to one of his friends there.
Friend : I heard that the HR round interview went on till 8pm in the
night. I think you faced difficulty in returning to your room.
She : No, he had come to pick me up. He came from his office, dropped me
to my room and he returned to his room at around 11pm. He didn't have
dinner also. I asked him to have at my room. Poor Nitin.
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Friend : If you are supposed to go home tomorrow itself then what about
reservation?
She : I have told him, he will go to Majestic and would get it done, and
he told he has some work in Majestic. That's why I am relaxed a bit.
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Friend : How was your written test in Philips?
She : I failed yaar. The day before the test I had prepared perfectly.
Nitin had come to our room. He taught me the basics of embedded
programming concepts. I was very confident only because of him. But
something else was in
store for me.
Friend : Then, what did you do on Sunday?
She : We had gone to see "Lakshya". He doesn't see Hindi movies. But as
I was upset after failing in the Philips written test, he took me for
movie. I was very happy and surprised that he himself decided for a
Hindi movie, and he was very happy that I enjoyed the movie. And you
know; we had dinner in Pizza hut. It was his belated B'day treat!
Friend : And, what was your belated gift ;-) She : Gift!! I had given
the gift on his B'day itself. I was the first to call him at 12 in the
night, he was busy throughout the day, and somehow we could meet in the
evening and I gifted him with a cute time piece with a nice quote on it.
He doesn't have time sense, so my time piece must always remind him of
this. That day he didn't give me any treat as he had to go back to
office. Yesterday I had a fight over this, you know! Poor kid.
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Friend : Hello...what about our sari shopping program in Malleshwaram?
She : Listen, I will call you later.
Friend : You didn't call me back in the morning, so I called now.
She : Yeah, when you called I was in Koramangala, with Nitin. He was
very upset in the morning. He had a fight with his elder brother. So, it
wouldn't have been fair on my part to leave him alone. If I am with him
in such situation very soon he comes back to normalcy. So I postponed
the Malleshwaram program.
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Friend : Hey! What happened? You seem to be very happy today.
She : Why not? You know today is one of the most happiest days for me.
Nitin got an onsite assignment in UK, for 6 months! That's why I am very
happy. All of his hard work paid today. He had been waiting for this
opportunity since long. He'll be leaving next month.
Friend : You will miss him.
She : Badly. I am so much dependent on him. I must thank Sanju, through
him only I got to know Nitin. Without Nitin it would have been very
difficult for me to stay in this alien city with no friends, relatives
and on top of all, no job. He has been so caring friend all through my
tough times in this city, he is so mature, so understanding, so
trustworthy...a true friend.
Friend : He loves you yaar.
She : I know.
Friend : And you? Don't you love him?
She : I don't want to.
Friend : Don't tell me. You also feel for him.
She : I know yaar. He has everything that I expect in my
dream-life-partner.
I know I can never get a true life partner like him. But I don't want to
commit.
Friend : What is stopping you? I really don't understand. When
Miya-beevi are razi kya karega kazi?
She : Please...don't say like that. I never told him that I love him or
something like that.
Friend : Is he a fool not to understand your feelings which are so clear
from outside only? Poor fellow, don't leave him alone.
She : I have told him everything about my family. He knows how orthodox
my parents are. They can never expect me marrying a guy from a different
caste.
They trust me. Come what may, I will not hurt my parent's feelings. I
cannot imagine also. Now they are happily searching a guy for me in my
native place.
Friend : Hmm, I don't understand at all.
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She : This Saturday I have to go home, a guy is coming to see me.
Friend : Oh! Is it? Good news yaar. Your first interview! Wish you all
the best.
Friend : Any guesses, who is he?
She : Please yaar. I am least bothered and least interested. For the
sake of my parents' happiness I have agreed for this.
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Friend : What about the interview, I was expecting your call actually?
She : Nothing so special. I didn't like the guy's attitude. I told my
parents clearly. My parents are very understanding and so they too told
me that they won't go ahead with this matter.
Friend : But still you should have analyzed properly.
She : I shared my views with Nitin. He had called me the next day. He
didn't suggest me anything. He didn't tell me to say "yes" or "no", he
didn't preach what is right or what is wrong. But after talking to him I
was satisfied that whatever decision I took was right.
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Friend : Yesterday your mobile was engaged for more than half an hour. I
kept trying, but I slept after 11pm.
She : Yeah, I was talking to Nitin. He is very much worried about my
marriage. He is concerned whether I would get a guy of my choice or not,
whether I would be happy with him or not. I was very sad to know this.
But I am helpless. I pacified him and convinced that whatever my parents
do, that will be the best for me, so no need to worry.
Friend : How Nitin will feel after you get married? Will he not be upset
all the time?
She : Time will change everything. He will start living again. Was he
not leading a normal life before I came into his life? It's all matter
of time.
Even I can't do anything other than pacifying him and myself with these
philosophical statements.
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Finally " She" got engaged with a guy of her parent's choice (with her
"yes"
of course). She is in touch with both Nitin and the new " him" regularly
through chatting in Yahoo Messenger.
Finally " She" got happily married to " him", very soon converting Nitin
into memories, but deleting the memories was slow and almost impossible
for Nitin.
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Why do girls do like this?
She needs him when she is new to the city.
She needs his help in finding out a PG or hostel for her She makes him
prepare a good-format-CV for her She needs him to drop her to the venue
of a walk-in interview She expects him to collect all the consultants'
mail ids She needs him while preparing for the interviews She needs his
help in identifying HER skill sets, strengths and weakness!
She wants him to conduct a mock-interview for her!
She gives her yahoo mail id password so that he can forward her CV to
consultants through internet in his office (in office hours!) She needs
him for boosting her confidence when she fails in the 1 st written test
in her life She wants him to take her to M.G Road , Brigade Road, Forum
and Big bazaar She needs his company while visiting all the temples in
Malleshwaram on Vijayadashami, though he is not a believer of God.
She asks his opinions on importance of marriage
She wants him to be a shoulder to cry when her parents force her for
marriage
She needs his help in preparing her mind for the first interview with a
guy She needs his help in deciding about the marriage proposal She loves
to share her happiness with him when she gets engaged She expects him to
attend her marriage (Come on guys, he is a true friend of
her!)
The guy does all this honestly, without saying a single "No".
He loves her.
He cares for her.
Whatever he is today; it is only because of her entry in to his life.
He treats her as his life.
She changed him.
It is only because of her, he is smiling.
It is only because of her, he has forgotten the past bitter experiences.
She is the first person in his life to influence him so much.
He was the " bhatka hua musafir " and she came as his " manzil".
He threw the cigarette in the dust-bin because of her.
He has cultivated a positive attitude towards marriage and family
because of her.
She is the perfect Indian woman he has ever seen.
He keeps a photo of Lord Krishna in his purse now; only because of her
(also it is her favorite deity!).
Weekends come and go without his notice; it is only because of her.
He stopped going to office on Weekends; it is only because of her.
Onsite project was his dream; he puts all his efforts now, not to get an
onsite assignment but to get a job for her in Bangalore.
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The girl depends on the guy as if she never lived and can never live
without him. Guy behaves as if he has taken birth on this earth only to
care for that lady. She treats him as a shoulder to cry and he treats
her as a puppy in a rain storm. She loves to depend and he loves to take
care, finally they fall in so called "love", ultimately adding an
unnecessary trauma to life. Girls want a perfect life partner but they
don't want to hurt their parents'
feelings, guys know that they can't get her but still they want to care
for her(because they want her to be happy wherever she is and with
whoever she is).Great! Or shall I say crap!
Or I think no need to be so serious about it.
She gets engaged, life goes on...
Long lasting phone calls become short and sweet, life goes on...
A heart which was used to "Good morning" SMSs learns to be happy with
just
the "Happy weekend" SMSs, life goes on...
No more "Unread messages" in the yahoo mail, life goes on...
No one to share coffee at "Barista" at the end of a tiring working day,
life goes on...
No more consultants' calls to be diverted and life goes on...
He starts smoking again, life goes on...
He is still living in flashback, and no looking back for her, but life
goes on...
He gets promoted, he is a manager, she is mother of two kids, and life
goes on...
He is in his late twenties, happily married to a beautiful,
understanding, mature, caring, broad minded wife! Anyway life goes on...
Who knows, among these "Nitin "s someone will come up as "Cheran" (ace
Tamil film director)and make a wonderful movie "My autograph" telling us
of his unsuccessful love stories, or someone will come up as "Sudeep"(
Kannada film actor turned director) who goes to his flashback after
seeing this movie and then decides remaking this movie in Kannada,
giving common people an opportunity to relive their past love-life at
least for 3 hours, that too with their spouses, without any problem!
Because there is " She" in every wife and there is Nitin in every
husband (most of the times!). There are dumb spectators like " Friend"
who are puzzled to see the whole episode between "She" and Nitin and
just ask themselves " WHAT IT IS???" .
Can anyone say that it has never happened in your life...Dare to say
no...It happens with all...
(courtesy: To the unknown Author of this story)
