A rendezvous.

20^th day of the Eternal September started on a gloomy note with a light rain, this eventually filled my vocabulary with all the words that propagated procrastination! After a great battle fought with all the unending drama, we decided to put on our pants and leave the place before we end up spilling the spirit we won. Our next stop was a tea shop, which is also a vantage point for all the birdwatchers out there. We would just walk in to pick a glance of all the birds along with a glass of tea. This treat provided us with some sort of crazy redemption, hope and energy required for the day’s activity. As my friend was driving, I was still found in the shoes of a birdwatcher enjoying all the gloss and glitter that went past by my eyes. In their bid to fit in, this face which was hurriedly jumping and hopping to skip the puddles synced with a straightforward memory of a girl from my school. She was Sneha Sampath.

After a vibrantly  wasted day with no life changing pivotal events taking place, I sat with my premium model mobile phone to check out what was trending on facebook, I saw Sneha Sampath online! Without any second thoughts I decided to break the ice.

Me: hi Sneha I think I saw u today morning!  

Her: is it??? whr???

Me: yaa ! You wore a grey kurti..?  You were walking along that hotel Sky park road!

Her: Lol yeah! I was wearing grey

Me: now I’m quite sure that I saw u only, You were walking fast!!

Her: Lol is it? What were u doing there

Me: I was going to meet a friend...As I was going, I saw your back! n was like “Oooh who is this ladki” ... I eventually saw your face...After few moments I thought it might be u!

Her: Lol! Not bad, that u recognized me

Her: u could have stopped me

Me: now I confirmed the ladki in grey was Sneha Sampath!

Me: today I cldn’t! But next tym if I see u, I’ll stop n say hii

Her: Lol sure

That night I thought I should show up and say “hi” to Sneha.

                        As I looked synonymous with a person in comatose, my parents flattered me by finding a course that required me to wake up early morning and leave, which benignly benefitted me in meeting Sneha that day.

I took the share auto as they would stop at our will unlike the bus service. En route, the share auto bumping into every pothole available on the road put me through trauma and Retrospect. I was eagerly counting each and every minute expecting a Rendezvous.

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Voila!! The moment of truth arrived, as I was looking through the share auto’s windshield!, The face that synced with a straightforward memory of a girl from my school hurriedly walking along the road again in front of my eyes. I got down and waited at the turn so that I could see the kind of expression she chooses when she confronts me.

     A rendezvous.

            WHEN CALVIN MEETS MASS HYSTERIA AND INSECURITY

                      My college has this culture where the male students where suppose to mark their presence in the hostel by Waiting for the warden to come with his register to the respective rooms and note down their presence, this intensity of waiting for the roll call would gradually diminish when semesters  pass by… So this one was a night, I never felt like going back to my hostel rather I would stay back at Swami’s place, not with any great purpose to serve but just to while away the time by watching movies and listening songs ....

       Swami had this desktop picture of Calvin…who was not so sure about the parenting techniques adopted by his parents!!

     I looked at Calvin the same way he was looking at his parents, when I had to take the glimpse of the pic.

“Intimidated...!” 

 

We started to watch a movie that swami had selected;but still i had Calvin coming up frequently in my head …until the movie was over and further too.

    As I couldn't resist thinking about it…I started to run the memories and the events that had occurred in my childhood again n again…in my brain all over the night. The next day we where walking to the college office to get a bonafide, then

 I asked Swami...what’s that desktop picture you had da?? Were Calvin was staring at his parents and wondering if they where good at parenting??

       He said about the possibilities of his life and all the chances that he could have experienced; he said about his life that had stayed unknown!! Till now..; is because of parents who took our hands to the stature that we possess at this moment.

The insecurity that our parents have,when it comes to their children is because of the fear of their child becoming an unsuccessful candidate of life.

The fear of chances of their child telling, why didn’t you tell me while you people had seen this coming, tells Swaminathan.

 Our parents develop this Insecurity feel when they slip into a Mass hysteria, take this instance where our society thinks  if a person is enrolled in an engineering course his or her future turns to be as bright as   *sorry  I couldn’t find any metaphor* and takes part in a spree of generating engineers!! By easily neglecting all the other likes of the individual...this eventually gives rise to a society filled with cliché

“Yes I know, this is again a clichéd example!”

Our parents could be like “child look, there are two ways you can do this. You can either follow me or you can figure out and tell me what is that you have” by just explaining the differences and try not falling into any kind of  hysteria and developing insecurity.

Days of me forgetting are over; Days of me remembering have just begun! 

Aravindh Baji

## STATUTORY WARNING: This is the first Time the writer has written something.

 ##I’m Sorry if I sounded like a duck.