the fun of teasing and being teased....

here are a few phases which all of us must have gone through in our school and college life. (Mann... all my posts have this line " u all must have experienced this" )

We  all like to tease our friends in our school and college life. The reasons for teasing are also varied. I mean it can be as dumb as ," you two are the monitors of the class so we are pairing u up." i had a lot of experience of this in my school life. Every year the girl's monitor used to change whereas i used to be the default boy's monitor. So every year i got teased by a new girl. Funny.... and weird. but thats the way things happen in school. As we slowly grow up, the reasons change. People tease u beacause you are on very good terms with that person. they will say , " hmmmmmmmmmmmm .... u two talk regularly on phone, eh?? ... hmmmmmm " ... funny again and in such cases u tend to smile within yourself which people conviniently intepret as "blushing".

Then there is a thing known as your eyes tell it all... i mean how can eyes speak.... and if they are capable of speaking, then they are capable of telling the truth as well as a lie... Now how come u know that i am not lying...  but it is true to a certain extent because even i use this phrase when i tease my frnds. ... hehe. 

then u can be teased because u find that girl/ guy attractive or rather u have a crush on that person... Now this is the most interesting of the lot... 

Imagine u have a crush on that person and then some of your close friends tease u just after u had a chat with that person....

You come to your friends after having a normal chat with the person u have a crush on ..... Your friends start , " hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm ........ had  a nice chat, eh?? hmmmmmmm..." 

now this is the time u actually blush. 

and our mind is a wonderful device.. It can imagine things at the speed of light and once the imagination chain reaction is unleashed, there is no stopping it.... U quickly jump to the nice chat u had with that person , then u start thinking what if there happened something between you and that guy/girl, all of a sudden u feel elated, your friends are teasing you  but your mind is drifting elsewhere, you recollect the nice moments u have spent with that person , u imagine a few nice moments which could have been possible, had it not been for your idioitic friend who had interrupted u guys then; you suddenly start feeling nice and high.... like on cloud no 9. ; you probably know that there is nothing possible between you two but still you like all these thoughts because the make u feel nice and bring a smile on your face and make you forget all your worries for the time being:) .... this is the actual fun of being teased... 

teasing people is always fun, but is you are teased with someone nice then its more fun....!!!! 

cheers!!!!

Things that we see everyday.....

Well, as my last post was much appreciated I have decided to continue with the same topic. Last time it was office romance and this time its going to be college romance. I have tried to capture two most common love cases u see on the campus. Again as I have mentioned before, the characters of this story are also imaginary but there is one change now. I have put myself in this story. So this is a story of we three friends- I , Shardul , and Animesh.

 

Three of us are pretty good friends and we got together in our engineering years only. They say that if u have common sorrows u can get along really well; it was very true in our case. All of us were the victims of doing Engineering in Mumbai University. Trust me… its hell!!! So it was a routine for us to do complete assignments and journals in the lectures.

One day we had 2 back to back lectures of mathematics. Now our professor was ummm… welll… in simple words a BIG SHOT!!! (Interpret it in the way u want :P). We never sat for her lectures but as out attendance was very low we had to sit. Now it was the very first time I had sat for a double lecture and believe me people, double lectures seem to go on forever. It’s horrible. Unfortunately, we did not have any journals to complete. We are really sincere that way. We complete everything in time. :P

 

So we had nothing to do and so we started discussing what all 20 yr old guys, who don’t have girlfriends and long to have one, do. We discussed about our love lives.

 

Shardul started first. He had a very depressing experience. Actually, all of us had depressing experiences but his was the most depressing.

 

There was this girl in the other branch with whom he used to come everyday in bus. They used to meet everyday and slowly they became friends. They were really good friends. Shardul was a very nice guy. Good looking, down to earth, humble, very simple in the way he led his life, rich, stylish, was the college football team captain, and had almost no negative points. The girl was also very simple, decent, and sweet and there was an aura of self-respect and dignity, which always surrounded her. If u looked at them, u would feel that they are a perfect match. However, their story was far from perfect. Shardul had known her for a year or so. They had become the best of friends and shared a great equation. Attraction was natural. So was love. If u know someone really well and if he/she is your best friend then u do tend to fall for that person. And it is my belief that being very good friends is a pre-requisite for falling in love. U just cannot fall in love with someone u, whom u don’t know well. So getting back to Shardul. He fell for her and he had told Animesh and me about it. However, one mistake he did was that he also told this to Mandar who was in that girl’s class. Now this mandar, I tell u, is an a******. This idiot and his group started openly teasing Shardul. The girl obviously didn’t like it and she had asked Shardul about it. He confessed about it to her and everything was in a disarray. Now she didn’t even gave it a thought, which she would have surely given had Shardul first told her. Everything was spoiled by one mindless idiot. Days passed after that. Shardul still had the same feelings for her. He told her that he doesn’t want relationship to start right now as these were their vital years to build a career. He told herthat he loved her and that’s all. But she refused and she even stopped talking to him because people had now started teasing her too. I told shardul to get out of it. But he said to me, “I love her and that is it. I know her. She knows me. Deep down inside we both know that we suit each other perfectly well. I know I can't make her love me; I can only let her know how much I care for her. I will wait.” I guess this is what they call truly, madly, deeply. He was a hopelessly in love and was like the boy who held on to the sand in his hand very tightly. He didn’t realize that the more tighter he held it, the more it slipped from his hand. I told him this. He understood what I said. But, that was his story.

It is still to reach an end (or beginning, I should say…. We should be optimistic)

Then I just checked my watch. Still one hour to go.. shucks!! Both, Shardul and me turned to Animesh. He got a bit scared. This guy is a enigma. In school days he used to be a geek and very studious boy. Books were his only love. Slowly, slowly  he started taking interest in other activities also and things other than books started occupying his mind. We asked him to tell his story.

 

His story was pretty short. He fell for a girl, with whom almost half of the college flirted. She too changed her boyfriends every month. Therefore, there was this startling contrast. On one hand there was Animesh, who happened to be a very simple “mama’s boy” and who was a one woman guy and on the other hand there was this girl who was well…. we all know what we call a girl who changes her boy friends every month and just uses them for her benefit. ( trying to keep my blog clean) I don’t mind the changing boyfriends part, but the worst thing was that she always saw her advantage. Once she knew that the guy wouldn’t be of any use, she would dump him. Therefore, to tell in simple words Animesh was “varan bhat” and she was a “biryani” gone sour. Animesh never confessed his feeling because he knew it was not worth it and that was the most promising part about him. He knew and he believed that he deserved better. We also told him the same thing, “ YOU DESERVE BETTER”. His feelings were genuine, but he realized that it was not worth it.

 

So this was his story. These two most common cases that u will find in your college life. Am I right?

 

Afterwards they both turned to me to hear my story. But at that time the lecture got over and I told them that I will tell them in the next maths lecture.

 

Fortunately / unfortunately / luckily / unluckily use whatever term u want……….. the next lecture got cancelled :P 

No Need for a title.... just read it... u will love it...

DISCLAIMER:

The characters in the following story are very real, any sort of resemblance to any person living or dead is intentional, and I am not sorry for that :) :).

 

Just joking. But this one is absolute fun. I hope everyone enjoys it and please do leave your comments on this one because it is something each one of us will have an opinion on. This is how it goes…..

 

He was a very quiet, reticent, simple, introvert and what many girls would call a “sweet” kid of guy. He was very down to earth but as they say that a man is known by the company he keeps, many people thought he had the same arrogance that his close colleagues had. But it was not so and people who knew him even a little could tell u that he was not as arrogant and self pampering as his peers were. 

She on the other hand was very outgoing, cheerful, sweet, straightforward, determined and was on very good terms with almost everyone at her workplace. It was very easy to envy her but there was hardly any person who hated her. It was just impossible to hate her. She was such a lovable girl who was in love with him.

 

“In love” is a very strong term and I don’t use it that easily, but this is one such case. She was not that a great friend of his and they hardly used to talk with each other. They were just working at the same company. But still she fell for him. There was something in him that attracted her. Actually many thing appealed her. It could be his simplicity, sophistication, occasional expressions on his face, which said “I’m lost”, his general expression of being as cool as cucumber or his provogue shirts!! It could be anything and everything. Her beautiful black eyes would tell it all….. only if u knew that she liked him, otherwise she was very good at hiding her feelings.

The funny or the tragic, whatever call it, part of was that he has a slight idea that she liked him. He had acquired this information form the grapevine communication system of their office. She never told her side to him. He got to know only half of the things and so he was never aware of the genuineness of her feelings. As he knew, only half of the real thing, there always existed a thin line of awkwardness between the two of them and at times, he did show signs that he knew about her feelings. But still he never knew her true feelings!!

FUNNY OR TRAGIC…… u guys decide.

Then she changed her job and now she was working as a HR manager in an MNC. She still hadn’t had her PF cleared from her old job. And surprisingly, he was the one who was in charge of these accounts. Therefore, when her cheque would be ready, he would have to call her or give her that cheque. She was aware of this fact and she expected him to call her or meet her. She had rehearsed what she would say to him, when he would call, at least 14 times!! One day when she was having her dinner, her phone suddenly screamed to life shouting out the Savage Garden number “truly madly deeply” and she saw an unknown number. But, that number was not that unfamiliar to her. She knew that number by heart and talking about heart, she realized that her’s was beating unnaturally faster J

 

Now lets jump back 5 minutes in time and I will tell you what he was thinking. His mind had struggle of his own. “should I call her or meet her in person… no! Meeting in person would attract unnecessary attention.. I will call her. But then there will be a bit of awkwardness.. shit mann this is crazy.. Fuck it!! I will rather call her..”

So he called her. Seeing his number on her screen, somewhere her ego was satisfied that he had to call her first…. Girls I tell u!!! so when she took the call this is what happened.

 

HE: hey hi!! This is ABC here.

SHE: (Of course, I know that. I’d been expecting your call) Oh hii!!

HE: err… I just wanted to let you know that your PF cheque is ready and ummmm u have to collect it before 7^th of next month.

SHE: ( god u sound soo  sweet!!) ummmm okk so where should I meet you? Office or somewhere else?

(At this point, both of them felt their mouths go dry)

HE: aaaaa….. ( what to do… if she turns up in the office m y group will tease me to death even though her reasons for coming will be genuine… where to meet…. Shitt!!! I hate to do this ) ummm can  u meet me somewhere outside.

SHE: (haaaaaaaaaaaa!!!) ummmm .. ok … where?

HE: aaa…. How about CCD? ( I hate myself) tomorrow 7pm ok?

SHE: ya sure .. bye  cya then..

HE: ya bye.

And so, after 2 mins 39 seconds, they hung up. Have a look at the irony of the situation. He had to call her to to ask if she would come to CCD .. lol :) ( though in an entirely different context). She did realize this fact and it made her smile. They say that, “a lot can happen over a cup of coffee”, and she surely hoped this saying came true.

 

It happens so many times with us. When we meet that very special person, we suddenly start trembling a bit, our mouths go dry, we feel like the tyre or a balloon, which is being deflated suddenly; our entire behaviour becomes similar to that of iron ,when magneto passes by ; and many such analogies are possible. If at we get a chance to speak with that person on phone, then the moment we hear the voice our dil goes hmmmmmmmmm :)

These kinds of things are magical and they need to be experienced to know them the best. I have tried my best to put them in words and I hope the readers have understood what I am trying to say. However, one question still prevails….

As the character “she” in the above story many of us have same feelings that she had. We sometimes genuinely like a person dearly, we care for him/her as we do care for our loved ones, we may not know that person inside out but still we have all these genuine feelings and immense liking for him/her…… so what is it? What can u call it?

 

Is it what we call true love? Or is it a seriously major crush? Or something else?

Please enlighten me.

 

I am waiting………