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’.
