A and AIR 76……

Hello Ish! Hey Tigger! I guess its just you two with me these days, huh? Thanks for sticking with me, while my posts get less consistent, less funny, more boring and more depressing.

But, I promise, you like this post or you don’t, you’ll have fun reading it. Ok, I’ve got two stories to tell you. They’re both in 3rd person…..But first let me tell you what I’ve been upto these few days. Well, I watched Jannat, which I liked and watched Se7en, which I did not like, also saw MP3 which I liked as well. I also read the three mistakes, by Chetan Bhagat, was cool, but kind of weak as compared to FPS or call center. Also read the kite runner by Khaled Housini, which was totally awesum, couldn’t get the characters out of my head for a weak. And that thing about Yelda was so cool, I loved it. Also read The Alchemist and didn’t like it, it was so very boring, don’t know why everyone praises it so much……. Anway, back to the stories

Lets start with AIR 76

Anand, pretty much a normal guy. Hailing from Delhi, he had much more sense of style than others, was good looking, ok in studies, and good in sports. He joined Bansal Classes, not really because he wanted to be an engineer, but because that is the only thing his father had suggested and he didn’t know what else to do with his life, so he decided to go along with it. He came in a good batch, even after not having taken the entrance seriously. He found the life of Kota boring until one day, when the course of his entire life changed, when he saw her. He fell in love with a girl in his batch. He, somehow, got to know about the hostel where she lived, and bribed the gate keeper to deliver a package to her. But, unfortunate as it was, the package was found by the hostel matron. She opened it up and found a card and a bracelet. She took it to the girl involved and said that she was gonna take serious action. The girl said that she would tell Bansal sir herself about this. When the matron was gone, she read the letter. It had a beautiful poem and a message telling her about Anand’s identity. He had written that if her answer is yes, then she comes to the class wearing that bracelet, and he’ll understand, and if the answer is no, she could throw it all in the dustbin, no hard feelings.The girl gave the package to Bansal sir the next norning….

He called an assembly and announced in front of everyone what had happened. Anand packed his bags and left that evening only. When teachers asked about him, they got to know that he had left a letter for Bansal sir. Although the letter said that he had left cuz he couldn’t face bansal sir, but Anand knew that it was not the truth. Bansal sir even called him a couple of times, that it was not his mistake and he could come back, but he refused. He was just sad, that she could have thrown that away if she didn’t like him, why did she tell bansal sir?

He was depressed for a month. Not eating anything, not studying anything, wasting his entire time. But his father understood him, and he said that don’t make your love your weakness, make your love for that girl, your inspiration. He told him to work hard and if he was able to stand tall on his feet, his father would himself go to the girl’s house to ask for her hand for Anand.

So he worked hard, more than anyone, in private tutions, self study, he gave it all he had, and he got A.I.R. 76 in IIT-JEE examination. He went to Bansal classes that very day, enquired about the girl’s address, and went to her house. As he had got to know, she had captured a 2000 something rank. He asked her why she had done what she had, told her about his feelings, demanded an answer, but on getting nothing for an answer but sobs from her, he gave her a card and left. And here I am telling you this story, hearing it from my friend, who heard from Anand and that girl on their wedding day…………

A

He had changed. The winds of Kota had given him a cold, the thing he felt awkward when his friends did it, he was doing it himself. The disease was “watching girls”. Yes, he used to say to his friends, “What, have you never seen a girl before? are the an alien form, new to us that you have to speacially go on gedhis to see them.” But, now, he noticed every girl walking past him, like they were something on display.

But, he was not that far along. He was still a good kid, just looking for love. He was never attached to his parents or family, so tried to find love from friends, or perhaps a girl friend. Whatever it was, he decided that he would start practicing the Game(Pick ups). So he strated carrying out the tasks in The Rules of the Game, grasped every aspect of the game, and finally started as a rookie. He tried to practice online first. So he sent friend requests to a couple of girls on orkut. You know, a couple of good profiles he found in his friends’ friends list. Thats how he met A(name not to be disclosed, so just A).

They hit it off the first time they chatted, for like 5 hours… and not a dull moment I tell you. He was taking it slowly, you know, following the game, slowly getting past veils of the female mind….. They decided to chat everyday. And they do, almost everyday, and he slowly starts getting attached to her. He even number closes her. When she doesn’t come online for 3 days once, he calls her and they talk for like 20 minutes. Nothing special right, but it was turning into something. Slowly, chats became less frequent and calls went everyday. They talked from 11:30 in the night to 4:30, one night. It was the longest phone conversation he had ever had. By now, he had also seen her pictures, she was more cute than pretty. He slowly started getting more attached to her, started missing her during daytime, thinking about topics to talk about at night, thinking about her. But he felt wrong, he felt like it wasn’t fair to A, he was getting these feelings for her, when she considered him only as a friend. He wasn’t attracted to her earlier, why now? He kept thinking and thinking for 2 days and then it finally dawned on him, one day when he was walking towards his classes. He was trying to find that girl in A. He had never got to know that girl, not talk to her, and he was trying to find her image in A. It may not be considered a big deal, but he knew it was for him, and he broke down, he wanted to just scream, let out all the frustration, not only about this, but about all of it, everything he was trying to forget about while talking with A.

“I felt like putting a bullet between the eyes of every Panda that wouldn’t screw to save its species.

I wanted to open the dump valves on oil tankers and smother all those French beaches I’d never see.

I wanted to breathe smoke…… I felt like destroying something beautiful.”                   – Fight Club

These dialogues were ringing in his ears as he climbed stair after stair, and he finally decided, that he would get over with the previous chapter first. So he called a couple of buddies in his home town told them to find out her orkut profile. He doesn’t want anything to work out, no, its more his curiosity that is getting the better of him. He just wants to talk to her once, and he knows the chapter would be closed after that. He doesn’t want this to haunt his love life forever. He wants to find out what it was that appealed to him, that’s stopping him from moving on.

He’s still friends with A, a better friend than he was. They still chat, and still talk on the phone for hours, and he hopes they will continue to be good friends.

And he has changed, he is out of the narrow minded trance he had dived into. He does not “bird watch” anymore and is more than confident while approaching someone, whether a guy or a girl. He feels more bright, more positive while talking, not caring much about public opinion. I am not saying it is because of this story, it might be because of the whole experience, but he can say that coming to Kota proved to be a fruitful decision.

P.S. I hope you have watched fight club, if u haven’t, you definitely should, its one of the best movies out there.