Dry state

Till about two years back, I wasn't there on any of the channels of online social media, including Facebook. Then, I met someone briefly (I am searching for him till date), he convinced me into believing that writers get laid a lot. That was my inspiration behind starting off with this blog. It wasn't an epiphany, or some sort of transcending intervention by God, it was just the frustration and helplessness of a petty (read worthless) engineer.

The blog is followed by my presence on almost every channel of online social interaction, including Facebook, Whatsapp, Twitter, Google+, Instagram, Tinder and many more. I dare you to go to the strangest of social websites, and search for me. The good part about being a writer is that you can justify any and every action of yours (primarily stalking) as being research for your subsequent piece of writing.

This is for the thousands of readers from 11+ countries across the globe (aftereffects of blowing things out of proportions (pun unintended) on the resume),  who have been inquiring about my inactivity on the online platforms. Gujrat is called a dry state for more than one reason. One doesn't come across inebriated, gorgeous girls in a bowling alley of a mall. The premise of my blog is basically finding those girls. So for the past three months, I was failing to find fodder for my blog.

Then I met her, she was coming directly from a fashion photo shoot for a friend of hers (photography is the next biggest fad, after writing). She was walking towards me wearing a white gown draping down her body. She looked like peace personified. Ironically, it is for women like her, men go for wars. One look in her enigmatic eyes, could overpower the effects of the strongest of drugs known to mankind. I won't say that her flawless beauty, or her charismatic personality, or her stunning panache wasn't attractive enough, but it was the serenity in her face which was the most mesmerizing. 

I’ve never ever fallen in love all my life, not because I never felt that there was a feeling of mutual attraction. But I didn't take it forward ever. Because I believe in the concept of “one woman man”.  I hope that when I’ll fall for someone, it’ll be for good and lasting till eternity. I know, you must be thinking what the hell am I even talking about? Does that kind of archaic thinking exist anymore? That’s so old school. But not for me! That is how I am. And this girl comes into my life at a time when I was just concentrating on my career and hoping for all things fancy. But things changed. In a second. Just like that. 

Our thoughts were in sync on most of the subjects, even the ones the most abstract ones. I was with her for a couple of hours, but it felt as if we had known each other forever. I am a rudimentary engineer and she is a cosmopolitan fashion designer who has visited more number of countries around the world than the number of states I have visited in India. It's like she completes me in a lot of ways. And it isn't like my feelings weren't being reciprocated, she complimented me on a lot of my thoughts, time and again.

Everything seems so perfect, right? My insignificant life finally starts to make some sense. Well, I forgot to say that, she could leave her office early that evening because she was serving her notice period, and it was her last day. She moved to Mumbai, and I will probably never see her again.

Later

Sidhant

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