The last day of college has arrived..!
As customary, he is sitting among his classmates on the stairs at the college and it makes him wonder, how he wished if this moment could have happen sooner...
Finally, it‘s time for him to get a taste of the real world. The whole point of two exhausting years in management education was to get an affluent corporate life that was ahead of him… Now is the chance for him to prove his worth and make it big in life… Being a perfectionist he liked to be appreciated for his work and that’s the only way he would ever matter...
Still there was a part of him that was sad..! The carefree days of fun and frolic were over… He loved to attend those economics and entrepreneurship lectures and made a point never to miss even a single one of them. He could never get enough of pacing through those long corridors and the panoramic ocean view he had from the college library at the 8th floor... He would long for the company of some of his friends whom he had suffered throughout for too long... All good things and times in life finally come to an end, he knew..!
But then he sees her..!! The most angelic thing on campus...
It took time for him in the beginning to notice her but ever since she had been a major distraction...
Not that she was the prettiest among the lot yet there was something about her that made him like her so much… He would always want her to catch him staring… Mention of her name would make him smile...
Everything about her persona was so magnetic to him... Her feline eyes, that dazzling smile, her unkempt hair and how she untied them every time before a snap...
Her red and green salwaar suite would always make him go weak in the knees… He always wanted to tell her how lovely she would look wearing a saree...
The simplest things about her would lure him… her diction as well as her command over the language; her personal sense of hygiene; her cheeky wit; her kindness towards unknown people... she made him realize that beauty is skin deep...
He liked her silent presence and how she let herself be yet always wanted from her to speak up for herself once in a while...
He would always guess her foul mood and that would make him sad… He would notice every time her cheeks would turn rosy when she blushed... Her smile gave him so much of joy...
He saw a different side to her that no one else could see...
And then sometimes he would imagine both of them taking a stroll on a sunset evening at the beach holding hands, looking deep into her eyes...
His chain of thoughts is suddenly broken when he hears her cheerful voice… “Hi there, it’s the last day of college, please sign this book for me and try to write something cool...” He keeps looking at her for a moment and then takes up the pen and writes... “I am a bit of everyone I see... yet I know no one can ever be me... this goes for you too… on one can ever be you...” – Yours truly
