Thursday, August 27, 2009
Don't talk to strangers...
We have grown up listening to this..but wat if u meet a stranger, n he says things exactly wat u hv been willing to hear for the past few days.. especially when you arent having the very best days of your life... blame overburdened schedule.. blame my mind which jus doesnt listen and keeps wandering !! blame.. the super slow net in hostel.. or for that matter blame the horrible weather in bengal... so got enuf reasons..!!! Two back to back nite outs had already drained me off any energy , but that wasnt it.. had to travel for 7-8 hrs.. to my destination.. smtimes the place is really nostalgic... but the other times.. its not so worth mentioning about..!!! newazz.. so started off wid my trip to kgp took a bus to cal.. dozed off in the way to be awakened only when cal arrived.. scorching heat in the "city of joy" only added to my piled up miseries..had enuf food at comesum howrah so that it lasts the entire day.. had to go n slog in sir's cabin as usual..!!! got upon the train only to get into my comfy cozy seat n doze off.. caught hold of the attendant n asked him to intimidate me once v rch kgp.. suddenly.. the specy guy or should i call specy man ... or should i call specy uncle.. who was busy over d fone, since the time he got up said to me.." dont worry beta.. i will let u know.. " I was obliged.. "i jus said its ok.." n then the conversation began... generally its which colg ? what do you study..? and ths time it wasnt different..!! so i told him NIT bla bla.. REC.. yaa yaa exactly..!!! ohh NIT is a brand.. ("n i wondered is it..??")...n very soon got to know the that the fellow was the VP of ICFAI school of business.. !! n then the MNP in me came out..!! gradually drifiting the conversation to a more professional side.. I asked him.. 'So have you heard of Aarohan".. he said .." well yes n no..!! ' now thats wat i call a confusing or rather a confused answer.. he ws tryin his best to be diplomatic.. :) but cudnt manage to.. !! i gave him a brief intro abt aarohan n my role in it as the MNP.. n he seemed to be elated at the fact..!!! throughout the conversation he kept on referring to himself as an MCB but still kept on.. u r doin a commendable job ma'am.. n then suddenly he took the form of one of those charactes who are strangers but yet give a deeper insight about your life without even knowing you.. If you have watched "If Only" then you can relate better.... he went on..!! n for a change i was the listener which i am, to the very selected few....ma'am i wuld like to tell u one thing you are a lady n very vulnerable..I was like excuse me..!!! n then he told me.. ' the first thing i noticed about you was your simplicity".. so do take it as a 'brotherly advise" whatever i share with you today..!!! i told him firmly.. my ears are very discrete in nature.. they hear only wat they wanna hear.. !!!! n he went on..!!! very soon you will enter the real world, you will get married , you will get a husband whos a v high profile husband.. who himself will nt hav the time to take care of you.. but the moment you ignore him he vl b on fire.!!! i wonderded is he sm student of 'linda goodman', !!! we were discussin aarohan and hes giving fundaz..yaa i listend .. cz i wanted the contact of the admin guy frm ICFAI.. n you ma'am are a very pretty lady. !!! ohh these comments or compliments comin on a day when i m certainly nt feelin best, not looking best..nevr mind..!! i said thank you in the most polite way i can..!!! politeness i a virtue that a gal mus possess.. i have learnt this.. :) n today im gonna give you the little tricks and trade of marketing..!!! he continued.. what was it..!!! i cudnt understnd..!!! he ws jumping frm one topic to another and thn finding a relevant link between the two..!! he askd me questions like a teacher and expected correct answers like a strict teacher. n very soon i realised that i knew the answers to most of the questions.. !! but never asked those questions to myself.. in fact in real life also the same things happpen.. the questions that are troubling you.. jus ask them to yourself.. So i did answer and he corrected me where i went wrong in "understanding the vagaries". He then narrated me incidents where his wife behaved carelessly at the frankfurt airport and told me that ma'am be very careful when you are travelling alone and never talk to strangers like me.He kept on saying that the train was like a second home to him, and it became quite evident when the attendants were at his service at the drop of a hat. Can you imagine he also exlained the documents that i should be carrying always when on an international venture.. I wont mention them I'm sure most of you readin would know. Very soon my destination came and he gave me the contact number without me having to ask for it for the second time. Somehow, i was deeply moved by the conversation that I had with him and realized that it was long time since i had spent some quality time blogging and this would form the content of it.. this wasnt meant to bore anybody.. it was jus an overflow of overwhelming experience with that person... !!
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