A phone call from an old aquaintance/colleague:
“Hi” – a hesitant male voice before telling me his name.
“Hi to you too”
“So how are you?”
“Good.”
“I saw you in Kerala sometime ago”
“Really? In February?”
“Yeah. At the Kovalam beach. You were with some guy there, I thought of saying Hi, but decided not to interrupt you”
“Thank You. You see, I was on my honeymoon”
“Really, congrats”
“Thank You”
Pause.
Longer Pause.
“So, erm, who was the guy with you on the beach?”
“!!!”
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Why is it so silent now
While the cacophany deafens me?
And why I am so alone now
While the crowd threatens to submerge me?
Why do I no longer recognise the face in the mirror?
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It’s scary to know that your every move is tracked, recorded and relayed faithfully at your last workplace.
Like when you send a message to a colleague to let him know that November will see a little bundle of joy in your life and you get a call from him saying:
‘That’s late news. I learnt of it about four months ago, as soon as you confirmed your first scan”.
“How? It was supposed to be a secret…”
“Well, you had to cancel a training program and had to give the reason for it and we learnt of it here”
“Ok, I also got a new job”
“I know. L (a pesky branch manager who seemed to make it his job to learn of every aspect of my life even while I was working there) told me”
“How did he learn of that?”
“I don’t know. But he told me this last Friday that you had joined ABC company”
“Well, atleast it took him only a month to find out!”
I am wondering if soon the news of what I had for dinner will be making the rounds, but then I remember I was the notorious one, the one who had to be warned not to listen to music in the office since people may think that I was the only one enjoying life.
On the other hand, it is just conceivable that the man actually reads this blog, in which case,
Hi L. Long time no see….but do you mind not giving out my life’s particulars to all and sundry. There is a reason why this blog is written under a pseudonym (and never mind the quirks about the phase where I decided to out with my real name)…
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Wondering if staring at a piece of cheese stuck on your boss’s mustache for more than three minutes and not listening to his words can get me fired…
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Back to reading after a long time and savouring every sentence, word, comma and period.
There is something to be said for a night spent in bed curled up with a good book and a mug of hot chocolate in hand.
There are few things better in life. I haven’t discovered them yet.
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