Finding love

Oh no! It was another humdrum day and as today’s kids put it across, another ‘blah’ day…I never thought the course of events would change my life. It was evening and I was standing on the platform, waiting for the train to arrive when I saw ‘Him’. Those extraordinary brown melting eyes, peering at me from up(since I’m pretty short!) , regular work attire and a smirk on his face, ah! The moment I had been waiting for had arrived. I could smell the sweetness of the roses and rainbows in the sky, the only glitch was that the moment had come too late! I was ancient(in today’s terminology) and he seemed to be in his thirties. ‘Stop it!’ I told my mind,” ‘Are you raving mad? Indian men are supposed to be ugly, remember? Let’s wait for an Italian or a Greek to turn up…like in those M& B.. Have you ever read of a handsome Indian hunk...Let’s wait for a foreigner to turn up so that we can shiver when he enters the room and faint, only to wake up in his arms.. Stop it, remember you are 40 years old, what happened to your maturity? Don’t get duped, don’t you read newspapers?” chided my Ms Goody Goody image.” Hey, take a chance on me…”my naughty image started blaring Abba’s song in my head and the volume increased till the words started revolving around me. ‘Stop it, you two!!’I silenced myself and when I looked up, my fantasy was broken by the sound of the approaching train. I looked at him before the crowd took me in its midst and threw me in the train, thank God for this great crowd which keeps me grounded, I thought to myself, feeling a tad disappointed too at the same time for having lost the golden opportunity to interact with the handsome hunk.

The next day, as soon as I reached the railway station, I stood in my regular position so that I could launch myself into the train, when there he was,ooking down at me( I have never hated my short stature as much as I did that day). I could feel myself turning a shade of red, luckily because of my dark skin and the fact that nobody cared in Mumbai, I was sure that it wouldn’t be noticed..I was still lost in my thoughts when I heard him say,” Sorry, but don’t you work in SK Investments? I feel as if you are a familiar face.”(to be continued….)