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Monday, October 25, 2010

Conversation Overheard

“Hey, have you seen him off lately? Where has he vanished?” One of the several guys sitting around the dining table in a cozy restaurant called loudly.

The other lad replies, “yeah I too haven’t seen or heard of him for the last couple of months, I wonder where and what might he been doing?’

“A little I know about his is that he had been a good friend of mine and a helpful one as well. He lived by his own orthodox principles and rules which is why he never got out of the box. He never saw anything or bothered to see anything beyond his own horizon. He had his own life, a unique approach of dealing with his self pro-claimed outsiders and was a lonely psycho” says another.

“However at times, he used to be the most amicable person in our circle. Sometimes he was very amusing and a terribly short tempered guy on most occasions. We all know him as a crazy maniac, don’t we? Someday we would hear about his suicide” giggles another one.

The most talkative one speaks, “I think he has left for abroad or he might be possibly be back to his village where he had a dream to catch. Or he might just have detained himself within four walls in some corner of the city, lying flat on the floor and gazing at the ceiling and weaving silly and weird thoughts. I had caught him in such acts several times. It was really funny the way he looked at the ceiling, putting one of his arms on his chest and the other ticking his chin. He even used to mutter ambiguous sentences and pat on his head.”

The last one speaks, “But there must be something which bugs him so bad. He never shares his troubles and thought so that makes him a nerd. He is supposed to be frank with us and share his feelings so as to ease his troubles away, but he doesn’t do that. I really feel pity on him.”

“Do you guys know anything about his romance?” inquires one of them.

The one with fair acquaintance replies, “He used to say that he never had a girlfriend but he is in love with a girl. He also said that if he ever had to marry, it had to be that girl and if not, he would remain a bachelor for his entire life.”

As the talk got more focused towards the character they were talking about, a lot of things were revealed. Everything from the character’s past to the present was gossiped.

Then I approached them because their voices seemed to be too familiar to me. Ah! They were my lines, I waved at them, patting one of them on his shoulder. Astonishingly, he says, “Hey where had you been dude? We were just talking about you.”

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