Bangalore Blues!!

People come and go out of your life! But some people just touch your heart, like no one else has ever had! Yeah! You guessed it right! It’s a love story!! 17 and restless, that I was! I couldn't wait to go to Bangalore!! What more can a small town Trivandrum girl ask for at the age of 17!!Bangalore, hostel, life away from parents!! Aha!!! Hell aha!!! Dad said he would get me a cell phone too!! Wow!!! I said to myself “I will always hold it in my hands, so everybody could see"!

Few days down, hostel started looking dirty, classes looked really difficult. Math looked Greek and Latin, Engineering drawing as they called it looked like a beast". The colors and crushes started fading away! So was the money my parents were sending! I would spend five thousand rupees in first 15 days and then rest of the month was at the mercy of Anita's wallet!!

Yeah! Anita was one hell of a girl! Not because I lived the second half of months on her money! Not because she used to say that I was beautiful, not because she made me laugh, not because she let me use her wardrobe!! This girl had a heart which never knew to hurt a single soul! She was a pillar of support to all her friends. Unlike me, she didn't have to do double masters in Psychology to know people's heart! She was a born true HR person!!

Anita was an extrovert, outgoing who never had an issue going out to a party and shouting aloud “ok, so I have come, let’s make it interesting for my sake"!
Spending endless hours at restaurants, blood donations, packets of kurkures , dosa and sambhar , Magi noodles , fighting with room mates!! We were always together ending up in trouble! Life fun, fun and hell fun!! Anita taught me to love (really). She used to talk to me for hours together about her grandpa and how she loved him!! I used to think“oh, do we have to love our grandparents too? I thought one needs to just love their parents"!!! She used to phone up her parents regularly, which made me feel guilty!! She talked about how good her mom was, how her dad loved her. Talking emotions at that age was quite surprising to me!! I used to think "cccmoon, 17 is not the time you talk about your parents"! But, had not been this girl, at that age, I wouldn't have realized how much my parents meant to me. How they work hard to send me that five thousand rupees!! I learned to talk emotions finally!! I started writing emails to my mom!! Yeah! It indeed was a great start!!

If somebody is expecting a revolution (or a sweet ending climax, like Subha finished her engineering with a good grade, though she had so much fun, then you are on the wrong page).I lost five papers in a row!! Engineering didn't happen! But it was a beginning of a very fruitful relationship which taught me to love! I tell you, one needs to learn from this girl how to love somebody!

It's been almost 10 years. Engineering times has drowned somewhere below my many other "accomplishments"!! Lol! But the love which she taught me still helps me learn new things. I discover new things everyday to love my mom, dad, husband and almost everybody!! Thanks to this girl!!