Well, ok P I admit, I cannot walk with heels on. There! Happy(That doesn't mean I will stop wearing them!)? It was a beautiful day today, my favourite weather(all cloudy but no rain!). So P and I decided to embark on a small adventure of our own. We wanted to do something really wild, like go bungee jumping wild wild, like those insanity waves which just hit you and you remain restless till you do something impulsive, that wild! More the merrier, so we decided to call our friends U and G, who were jumping at the prospect of adventure(Insanity is in the air I presume).Ok, I know I'll sound cliched but I'll just say it anyways. Initially I thought it was more of an adventure, visiting new parts of the city(in a train) I had never heard of, let alone been to, but the journey proved as an insight into myself among other things. Hyderabad is a huge city. I mean huge! Where I live, study and hangout are all three different areas, but maybe they just account to one- fifth of the whole city(combined of course!). G and I were in for a rude shock when we got down the train, it was as if we were transported to another area, a smaller village or something, with a largely Muslim population. Which freaked G out. Me, well that's another story. The place was well how do you put it, dirty. Not that I'm a neat-freak or something, but I just couldn't digest the fact that there were areas like this in Hyderabad. It had drains, open sewers, pot holes and it smelled. Not that the crowd was great either. The guys were pretty excited, P said something about it being exotic! U was all cheerful for... ummm... well he's usually cheerful, I think. It was not as though it was a slum, but I couldn't stop judging the place. Not that anybody said anything to me(not with P and U around!). I definitely can say, I would never go to that place all alone, its those places which creep you out instinctively. P and U maybe right when they say its wrong to judge a place, there is equal good as there is bad everywhere, but as a girl I think that I should go with my instinct. Or maybe its just my paranoia speaking.
Love makes people do strange things, maybe not love, maybe just the anticipation of love or romance or whatever. They are complex things, liking and loving, going out and commitment, date and a hang out . I wouldn't even start explaining either. Just what I've observed today, strange thing this love is, for instance
- Surprising your girlfriend on her birthday with cake and flowers. Especially when you don't think birthdays are a big deal.
- Getting into an overcrowded city bus, just because your girlfriend doesn't like the area around. More surprising so, if you are the kinds who would never travel in a bus.
- Drinking coffee for the first time in your life.
- Holding hands in public. Mushy right? But you tend to do it unintentionally, without any seeming discomfort. Comes a point when you actually start liking it.
- The thought "can I take her there" strikes when you think of a restaurant or a hang out spot to go to.
- When you start thinking, how true, when your friends say you give your girlfriend a lot of importance.
- When you know your in trouble, when you hangout with your friends among whom a girl you liked a long time back is present.
- When you are disturbed when you don't get a text reply within 5 minutes of you sending it.
- When you actually think before hanging out with a friend because you said "NO" to your girlfriend when she asked(Huge trouble! You can get your ass kicked!)
- When you wonder if you have really changed when your girlfriend said so!
Like I said... Strange Love... I've seen U and P go through it, any given day I would laugh at it but not today. What I realised today was that there is something beyond all the dating, going out, hanging out and commitment. The emotional bond. That's Strange Love!!!
