A stranger from the past… July 9, 2008
Posted by riddhiparekh in Life.Tags: Life, travel
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I don’t know how many times you look at some strangers, find them interesting and strike a conversation with them. I do, a lot of times but until today never really found any courage to actually talk to them.
•I had to go to Churchgate today for some office work so I caught a Churchgate slow local and somewhere at Bandra two girls came in and sat besides me. They were talking about some admissions and after a while I figured out they were law students. Well at that time I was too sleepy and all I did was heard their entire conversation.
•While returning back I caught a Borivali fast and I saw one out of those two girls sitting there returning home. I looked at her and smiled, she smiled back. I thought to myself, what a coincidence. It took a while for me to make myself get up and talk to her.
•I went there and said “ may I sit here? I met you,… actually saw you few hours back”. She was a little reluctant to talk. After a one sided conversation where I felt I was taking her interview I came to know that her name is Mital, a Marwadi girl living in Borivali with her joint family and trying her luck to get into the Government Law College for her second year.
•I had to assure her that I was not some crazy girl by lying to her that I love talking to strangers and do this a lot. I think after a while she got used to the whole idea of a stranger bugging her. So she opened up and asked me few things. I realised after a while that she looked like one my friends and told her that too, she laughed. I remember that quite evidently, she had a very nice smile. The funny thing was that she seemed very predictable I asked her questions and already knew the answers. She called herself boring, said never had a boyfriend and intended to study hard and get married to some guy of her parents choice. It was funny cause I felt I already knew her… but then why would I find her so interesting? I questioned myself and realised that she was ME.. like… 3 or 4 years ago…
•She made me wonder for a while that how much I have changed and how simple I was before just like her and now how complex I have become.
•My station was nearing so I asked her to write something on my railway ticket…she laughed again and after much of thinking she wrote- “you are very very INTERESTING”. I gifted her a 5 buck ring with ‘friends’ written on it and she gladly accepted.
•I waved her my first and hopefully not the last goodbye and left. But every time I read that ticket it makes me realise how like Mital…always thought I was boring and in most weirdest of explanations and reasoning she made me ‘interesting’. I m sure she will remember me like how I would…as a ‘stranger from the past’.
I haven’t had such an experience ever.. None that I can remember of.. But something makes me believe this is what they mean when they say- In your life there will be mirrors that come up time and again.. And it is these incidents that make you realise not just who you are but even what you should or shouldn’t be..