Change is Self-Reliance!

In a chaotic corporate atmosphere of a bizarre metro city, two colleagues sitting next to each other have no other choice but to talk. Rashmi and Manu are such kind of frienemies who have opinions that are poles apart yet they ought to a strike a conversation as they sit next to each other.

Rashmi asked: Manu, why are being so judgmental?

Manu: What do you mean by that?

Rashmi: I can see a frown in your face whenever my friend Tanya comes to my desk. What do you actually think of her?

Manu: I have no comment to make. Also as she is your friend that doesn't mean I have to like her!

Rashmi: I know that you don't even like me for many reasons but why do you have to show faces? The other day she even noticed that...

Manu: I don't like her. I can't even see her face that is layered with make up and lips tinted in red… eeks

Rashmi: Do you know her personally? You are not even close to her. How do you judge her by her red lipstick?

Manu: See Rashmi, I come from a small town and an orthodox family. I know to differentiate good girl and bad girl by the way she dresses up or talks to people. I have seen Tanya outside with a bunch of guys. She and her friends come to local bar where my friend and I drink. Very rarely girls come inside such bars. I can't stand such women wearing revealing clothes and hang around with many guys. She doesn't have any moral values.

Rashmi: You said, you are from an orthodox family, right? Then how come you go to such cheap bars for drinking?

Manu: I go only twice in a month for relaxing. I don't drink often you know... Also I don't drink in posh places as I have to send money to home. I am careful in spending money. Also, no one in my family knows that I drink. Also, these days most of the guys drink every night. I am drinking when I feel too much stressed out.

Rashmi: Hmmm... Let's look into our work

Manu: Are you not angry at me for telling about your friend Tanya?

Rashmi: Dude, that's your opinion... I have no say in it... I want to understand what makes you show faces when she is around. Now that I know I have no time to argue with you I have 40 unopened emails to be answered.

In her mind voice: Bullshit! He ruins my day! I have no energy to argue with idiots like you! If you go for drinking in a cheap bar that means saving money. If a girl does the same she has issues with morality! If you drink that is for relaxing... At the same time, girls are born as saints and have inner peace all the time. Especially, misogynistic males like you! God save me from this guy! I really want inner peace... Why some men and women are so impossible to reason with; they are so stereotypical and judgmental! Even if I show you 1000 reasons why Tanya must be loved more than anything else, you will not be convinced. Because your head is a complete form of rock that nothing can penetrate. In fact, nobody can change nobody! The change is self-reliance - it has to happen within! She sighed and lost into the desktop...