My Love Life – Part I

Today I want to talk about my close friend’s love life. He is actually 3 months older than me but I am 1 year elder to him (Please don’t ask me to explain that – you need to know advanced quantum physics to understand it – and if there is anyone who has done PHD is quantum physics – they also need to know molecular biology) Both of us are 24 years old and pretty much followed the same path when it came to studies (computer science stream – and yes he did score better marks than me most of the time)

Well all in all he a very nice guy. A little afraid of girls, Loves spending time watching movies and doing anything on the computer. And by the way is working too…Any way all this started when he was doing his UG. The management was very strict at his college. Though it was a co-ed, they were not supposed to talk to the opposite sex, each sex had their own staircase, and basically there was no freedom.

We were all brought up with a lot of freedom, though we had boundaries. Our parents never put pressure on us to do this or do that not even on our studies. And we were thought to do our stuff on our own – even studies, we never really went for tuition’s (may be once or twice for a month or two)
Anyway – going back to his college day – he used to be always very upset about the way his teachers and the authorities acted at college. One day he and his mates were having fun chatting outside the college (the usual tea shop outside the college). Any way there was an incident where someone tried to tease a girl and it was brought to the attention of the college authorities. The college authorities decided to suspend all the students who were standing by the tea shop for one week as punishment.

My friend – though pissed off with the authorities, was happy to get the one week off. He sat at home watching movies, went to his friends place…he was enjoying himself. By the way at that time my friend had managed to convince his dad to buy him a Mobile phone (a Sony Erickson model) and he had this Airtel connection where he had to pay Rs30/- every month and he could send any number of SMS free for that month. And believe me – he used to abuse that service. Now he can type out an SMS Message without even looking at the screen or keypad – though I have not measured his word per minute speed, I can tell you he is pretty fast and accurate.

Since he was not doing anything – one day he decided to do a small experiment. He started to send out SMS’s to numbers that preceded his number. His msg was introducing himself and asking the opposite number if they were interested in chatting. Just like what you do on yahoo chat rooms. So he was sending this msg to random numbers. Most of the numbers he never got a reply. Other numbers he got negative reply. But there was this number – a girl who called herself Sanitha; SMS’ed back. That was the first positive SMS he had got. Any way he got busy chatting with the girl on SMS and she also used to regularly send back messages.

This went along for a long time. They exchanged personal details. She was from West Bengal, and was studying at a premier intuition. She was the only child in her family. Finally my friend and she decided to meet each other. So the date and time were fixed. They were supposed to meet at a very famous mall in the city in the afternoon on the 15th of AUG. My friend was very excited. At last he was going to meet an SMS Pal. He decided that he was going alone.

In the evening he came back beaming. I asked him “What happen?” He replied “You know what? She lied to me.” I said “What?”

“Yea! Her name is not Sanitha; her name is Moumitha” and he went on to tell me about her, her friends, the fun they had at the restaurant. Though I was a bit apprehensive, I was happy for him. He had at last decided to move into the bigger world and make friends. Any way he started, visiting her and her friends regularly, to restaurants, to the beach…He was enjoying the new found friendship. All his friends used to try and woo him, to try and get him to introduce them to some of her friends. He used to always say “no, she is just my friend and I will not take advantage”

I think this friendship went along for a few months before she decided to propose to him. She had started to love him – she confessed. He told her that frankly he was not in it for the “Love”. Any way she convinced him about it and he also agreed – though he never said the words “I LOVE YOU”, he later told me. I also did not take it seriously, and left it alone. He started spending more time with her. He used to spend the weekend going for shopping with her, or going to the beach, going for movies. He even started talking to her for the whole night on the cell phone….

And before I realized it “Holly Shit” this guy was serious about this relationship. He even called up her parents and introduced himself and told them about his intention of marrying her. This went on for I think 3 years or so. By that time I was out of the country with a good job, and he had signed up for his PG in a better college. Whenever I used to call him, he used to talk about her also, and tell me all the fun they had.

By the way I forgot to tell you about this other girl at his new college. They used to call her “Vath” (Duck). She was studying for and UG engineering course. My friend’s class mate’s told him that this girl was watching him and following him everywhere. That was cool eh? Any way, he was deep into his other relationship, and as I had mentioned earlier, he was afraid of girls – so he never had the courage to go and directly speak to the girl. Any way he had fun with the girl following him around. But he made it a point to let her know through “orkut” that he was already in a relationship and was unavailable.

Read Part II of My Love Life to understand the whole story. I know “Falling in Love” is a common thing in India. Though I have liked some of the girls who studied with me; I never had the privilege of “Falling in Love”. Please leave your comments – and let me know what you think of this little story and your own experiences.

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