DIVINELY MATCHED

It always happens, when we often lose all our hopes and stop at a point, when we have no option but to choose. The choice may not be that difficult though, however, the very thinking and conception of it does take a toll of us, right from its initial stage till the time its closure is decided, we have a constant frame of mind, that is into a juggling, a duel that sets the pendulum of our mind and heart swinging from “YES’ to ‘NO”, from “Right” to “Wrong”, “should I” to “should I not”.  It is a funny lane on which we start walking. We find various new faces in our journey. New expeditions all together are encountered. 

Today, was this expedition day for me – “meri ungliyaan baar baar google playstore par jakar DM type karti aur, mera mann chetavni deta – decide karlo pehle app download karna hain ki nahi ?”; But, finally my mind was quick and spontaneous to respond to the situation – “aisa hi toh hota haina – jis baat ki ijajat dil naa de, ussi ko sabse pehle karna hota hain dimaag ko”

A whole family of W’s - “what, why, how, where, who”, starts loitering around us from within. Novice experiences start bothering us from, new fears, to new surprises, to new hopes, dreams and fascinations and fantasies.

Oops! I forgot to introduce myself! Hello. I am sonu! (Female, 31) and currently working in an MNC in Gujarat. “Bas aajke liye itna hi kaafi hain”  “Filhaal main work ke saath ek aur chiz bhi kar rahi hu – meri best friend ne mujhe bataya tha iske bare main” Now, why to waste time in knowing kyu, kahan, kaise?, instead just join me in my journey of DM! (pata chal jayega DM kya hain don’t worry)

 

“It all started with DM”, a new application that connects people socially through a social media app. “Aam language main isko dating app, aisa kehte hain!” The purpose of joining this, was to get connected to the person who we think, we can connect to well.

 

I was busy shuffling the photos of various prospective grooms on DM when suddenly 3 profiles caught my attention; out of which two were from Ahmadabad and one from Bangalore. Isn’t it quite a weird thing to keep on visiting a certain profile in a day, strange but true? I did that the whole day, kept on reading those profiles that I selected. I liked these profiles in one go and I hit a click button on it. Further in a childish curiosity, when I clicked on the message icon mentioned there above in the toolbar menu, I was taken aback to see a message flashed on my mobile screen.

 

“The person you liked, should like you too for taking talks ahead; patience my dear patience”....

 

I just widened my eyes and read that twice. OMG, how foolish I was to do that. But, it was not my fault at all. We are always in a hurry to watch out for the next step. And I am no exception to this rule! The moment I liked the status and profiles, I hit a “LIKE” button and further, as this was done, my over smart mind questioned me “WHAT NEXT”...; to this my impatient heart answered let’s get started with a conversation “IMMEDIATELY”.

 

Well, nothing happens immediately, I consoled my heart and logged out of the application. A new day that was, I reached office early, and was busy finishing off with the targets in hand. Suddenly, a buzz fell on my ears; my phone got a message, the icon of DM popped up as a notification on my mobile screen. Bas fir kya tha, “yehi toh chahiye tha na mujhe”... within a moment, I just pushed aside the huge box file in front of me, closing all the windows on my PC one by one, cleared my office desk, flipped some stationery from here and there, just  to locate my phone.

 

Hassh! Finally! Gotcha!, (with a ear to ear wali smile),I grabbed it firmly, unplugged the charger, watched out for my surroundings quickly,(arree bhai! – jab hum apne aap main magna hote hain, tabhi puri duniya ko apne saare kaam chodkar ye jaana hota hain, ki hum aakhir kyu itne magna hain?)”, after all its psychological na!

 

So I looked around to see, who is looking at me, who is staring at me, rather! who is observing me, what exactly my CEO is doing at the moment... “Uff! Bechari main!”

 

I finished all these difficult tasks and quickly unlocked my mobile lock  and straightaway chose to open the DM message, leaving behind 137 unread messages on whatsapp, 10 notifications on my FB page, 2 text messages in my mobile, 4 missed calls. Now this is what I call, “Competition at its level best!” What to choose over what??? (Immediately, my rational mind recalled the economics – theory of demand, in particularly, the problem of choice!)”...I shook my head and told myself – shhhh... FOCUS karo FOCUS! But, out of all the notifications, DM –came out victorious in it.

 

There were 2 notifications, both from Ahmadabad. “Widening my eyes, I just checked on those messages”, I read both from both the members, oops! Prospective candidates... I must say na! Oho! I m blushing now! Aree bhai apke saath bhi aisa hua hoga! Ismain konsi nayi baat hain!

 

While, I got engrossed in reading those messages from both the profiles, I just overheard my name from a girl sitting next to me. My eyes are still glued to the mobile screen and I was busy trying to open the messages; I mean I was juggling actually, ki pehle kiska message padhu? The girl sitting next tapped on my shoulder this time, and Irritated to it, I jittered, aagey bolna kya hua ruchi?

 

Ruchi gave me a ‘whatever wala look’ and said, “abhi toh kuch nahi hua, but agey pakka hoga!” CEO ma’am, bula rahi hain tujhe unke cabin main!”...My fingers froze for a moment, leaving behind all the fantasies, I was brought brutly to the world of realities! In a few minutes, I reacted foolishly looking at her and screamed, kya? Kab? Kyun? ...too many questions in one go, and she calmly responded, Haan! pichle 10 mins se! AGM ki meeting ke liye! She replied to all my questions in the sequence, I asked her!

 

My jaws dropped down. “Oh! NO!” I just gasped and put my mobile aside and walked inside the CEO’s cabin shamelessly without carrying any diary or pen with me. (Shhh... haso mat...nervousness issiko kehte hain aakhir, haina?”) Aur isi ke saath, economics ka ek aur term mujhe instantly yaad aa gaya! “Opportunity Cost”!

(“Pata nahi kyu, lekin jab meri buri tarah se lagne wali hoti hain, tabhi mujhe economics ke har kisse gin gin ke yaad aane lagte hain!”)

 

Khair! To Opportunity cost is – to choose the next best alternative! And at this moment - I was supposed to choose the next best alternative for me given the range of limited resources at my disposal. You know what next best alternative was awaiting me? – “meri aur meri CEO se urgent meeting!”

(I never knew that Economics loved me too!)

 

A choice was to be made, between the assignments that I and ruchi, were assigned; only 2 hours were allotted to us! Sometimes, life really plays rude games in form of a hyper BOSS! I mean like, I was already amidst situation where I was to choose my Mr. FUTURE PERFECT, and now this new assignment, all of a sudden? Like a googly ball from my khadus While, I left my CEO’s cabin, she smiled at me and said, “ek ghante main reports submit kardena haan!” staring at me from the CEO’s cabin! Closing the door of her cabin, I cursed her and planted a fake smile on my face!

 

God must be smiling from above, he exactly knew which area of life, I need to work upon well! “Lekin – duniya main hum aaye hain to jeena padega! (I reminded myself!)”

 

Ruchi ke saath thoda sar khapakar aur meetings ki minutes banakar...Alas! I had to listen to my heart for sure now, so I just excused myself from RUCHI and the office crowd, (aree wohi purana bahana – main zara washroom jakar aati hu!)” and before they could say anything, I was literally, gaayab from the cabin. I smartly slipped my phone under my cotton dupatta so that “Log mujhe toke nahi – ki washroom main mobile kyu leka jana hain and all those foolish stuffs” I  finally, isolated myself for secret reading about the messages sent by those two candidates. (God!...messages padhne ke liye washroom main aana padta hai!” tapping my forehead I murmered.

 

“Hey! How are you?” one of the messages said, I am fine and you?” I replied quickly.  One of them was very quick in replying tough, so he just shared his mobile number with me and asked me to drop a message on his whatsapp. Itni bhi jaldi kya hain! I murmured! I was surprised to learn this! No clue at all how to react to this? So I logged off from the DM app soon. The very next moment I realised, that I was still to check the message from the other candidate from Ahmadabad. Oops! I completely forgot..., so again I logged in hurriedly and opened the other candidates profile to check what he had inboxed me? But, it was a smiley! Actually, it was a reply he gave me to my question on – did he like movies? And what kinda movies he liked watching? How am I going to know from a smiley? – “Ye boys – to the point kyu nahi bol pate?” I thought to myself.

 

For few hours work caught me up, but suddenly the evening tea came up with a surprise. I got a message, yes again on DM. This time from the person whose message I was waiting for since MORNING; the guy from Bangalore.  An ear to ear smile carved on my face when I saw his message. It said, “Hey! I too was a part of such campaigns at work; it was fun, enjoyed and had a good time too”. He actually shared this when I mentioned in my previous message, about what are my hobbies and that I loved writing fiction stories, poems and scripts theatre and plays!

 

I was happy to know our hobbies matched. He was kind enough to mention that, BOTHERATION should not be a word at all! This was when I saw him go offline soon when I messaged him inquiring whether I am intruding him with posting messages on his DM account. As usual, I had to wait again for the whole day to get his answer. Meanwhile, I just checked out some more profiles, but the thought of that Bangalore Boy never left me alone even for a while! And I said to myself, “Welcome to the world of DREAMS”.

 

Impatience as they say is too bad to handle…. So I straight away listened to my heart and texted him my mobile number with a message, to buzz me on my whatsapp. Cool na, isn’t it?

 

Sometimes we surprise life and most of the times, life surprises us! That day, waiting for the whole day for his message on my whatsapp, I thought life is really funny, it doesn’t fetch you what you want that easily! But then yes, it has its own way of surprising us too. At 11:55pm I thought let me go to sleep, let’s not wait now, and the moment I headed towards my room, and a sweet surprise unveiled at 12:00am sharp” I mean, WOW!! See the timing, man!! The B’lore guy, was here! I could not resist my eyes reading his name that I saved in my mobile. Still couldn’t believe - it was him who messaged me! I smiled and blushed together. Something happened that moment. I can’t explain what it was – but I loved being that phase – as of now! I felt.

 

“Hey!… Jeet here”  (crisp, short and to the point message), I thought to myself. There was a cute smiling SMILEY! Icon followed after his message.

“Yes I know”, I replied.

“So tell me, how are you?” (I know this line is cliché, but “yaar conversation start karne ke liye kuch toh ho!”)

“I am good and you?” He inquired politely. (yaar, yeh itna hi bolta hain?) I thought to myself then replied to his message.

“I am good, just going to sleep as its 12:00am.”

 

Now this is what we call “WE GIVING SURPRISE TO LIFE”. Isn’t it true? “When it has to offer us the goodness, we keep ourselves away, fearing that this may SLIP AWAY soon, so we wanna preserve it for tomorrow, and forget what today holds for us!” and in this hustle, we often forget to enjoy the moments in hand…

 

So like a foolish, I messaged him, “great! Can we talk tomorrow I am feeling sleepy now!”

And like a gentleman he replied, “Ok, no problem, we shall talk tomorrow!”

I hit a back button and was about to shut my phone when a message from him popped up again.

“Good Night… “

and again a Sweet SMILEY followed! (This time with a start twinkling in its eyes)

 

“A SMILEY OF UNDERSTANDING AND CARE”...

 

The next morning came with yet another surprise, someone from DM posted a message for me! Hi, sahil here. This is my number, can we talk over whatsapp, I am not that frequent on DM now. As usual I was amongst work, so I didn’t respond over his message. But later in the lunch break, when I opened my DM again, I messaged sahil back that I am sorry, I can’t reciprocate to his request. And then I decided to close my DM account forever now!  I have FINALLY DECIDED….!!!

 

Do I need to mention why I chose to do so? Aree baba my search was over now!!!

 

With this I closed my DM and the application reminded me “ARE YOU SURE”? …I said yes and now no looking back!.

 

Opened my whatsapp and messaged Jeet around 2:45pm, so “how are you?“ “How is your day going?” This initiated a conversation between us…finally and I was happy to make the decision of quitting the DM…app.

I messaged him – “I logged out of DM forever – I think my search was over finally!” and sent with a smiley of hearts in the eyes!

 

So amongst all these twists, turns and surprises, “I WAS HAPPY!  LOVE WAS IN THE AIR…..”

 

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“End of STORY 1, but SOON WE SHALL MEET AGAIN WITH A NEW STORY ON NEXT FRIDAY!”…. TILL THEN STAY TUNED....