Never fall for “LOVE at FIRST SIGHT”

I never believed in love at first sight, although I kept thinking it should happen to me. Someday, I’ll meet someone, someone I’ve never met and I’ll fall in love with her. How impractical. I totally agreed with my parents view about arranged marriage. Marriage! Have I been thinking about marriage? Shit!! Guys, this shows how much serious I am about this. To be truthful, I met this girl named Arpita and now I just keep thinking about her. I saw her and now I just see her face everywhere. Now if you want to know more of how I met her, keep on reading and if you think this is going to be boring story, you can stop as I can’t promise you a happy ending.

Friday, 31st July 2009: I had an interview in Assam Professional Academy, Ulubari, for the post of a lecturer. It was usual hot summer day without the life-giving breeze. There were many of us, ‘you know who’ and one or two girls. I’ve been chit-chatting with one of my contemporaries when she came inside. She was wearing a white kurta with white chunri, I felt as if the room is filled with her brilliance. She looked astounding in her style, simple yet it can kill. Her looks said she is confident and energetic. That’s when the problem arises. I looked her once and I don’t feel like taking my eyes away from her. I prevented myself from doing that and talked about useless things with other newly met friends. But it was too hard to control my drifting mind. It wandered away to notice that her chunri, which was too long that it has touched the floor. It was sweeping the floor due to the force of fan above it. She wasn’t talking to anyone. I kept thinking whether I should tell her about her chunri but I didn’t have the guts. I turned to her many times just to say that but my energy level was beeping low. What then? I didn’t tell her.

Then I was called for interview which asked for 9 months bond and I refused the offer. It was her turn. “Arpita Bhattacharjee” a boy called her name and escorted her to principal’s office. When she came back she was being asked about her interview by those present there. She said that she has already got in to TCS and she can’t do this bond thing. Now, the coincidence is that I am also placed in TCS.

It’s time to leave. I gathered all my courage together and said,
“Hello, are you leaving now? I’ll join you.”
“Okay”, as simple as that. We were descending the stairs as we talked. So, I had to make up something fast to keep the conversation going.
“So, you got in TCS too huh! I don’t even know when they’re gonna call.”
Then we talked about AEC, JEC, and Sikkim Manipal, training, job and temporary jobs while we walked. She told me that she stays in Ulubari with her family. She was friendly but I was still a stranger and it made her uncomfortable. I was hurling questions at her and she was answering them all. It didn’t last long and we departed.

May be I liked her. Her smile, her simplicity, her hair… wait! These are personal. I came back to my room and told my roommate everything about her and how I fell for her. He asked, “Did you take her number?” I’m a real fool. I forgot to take her number. I told my friends about it and they cursed me for not getting her number. So was it my greatest mistake? The following two days I only thought about getting her number somehow. I had completely lost her. I only had one chance and I lost it. How will I search her in such a big city? The only way I can meet her again was to wait in that small gali all day long for her to turn up for which there was less than no chance. Another way which will escape “the only way” line is by fate.