Yet another so called proclaimed day for the celebration of love has gone by......this budding contemplator made herself artificially unaware of the underlying excitement that this day brought to many. Of course, it so happened that after a point it required no particular effort on my part to think of this day as anything special. Monotony does that to you. I thought my mundanely exciting office would rid me of any speculations that I might have regarding the existence of Valentine's Day. But for once my conviction that my office and my senior colleagues were of the Jurassic park age was defied and shattered!!!! On a mission of mine to roam about the office with the ambition to look busy and aloof I found many of my senior colleagues excitedly wishing each other "happy valentine's day!!!!!Each pointed to the others clothes (especially the excited female lot) and tried to come to a conclusion about the reason for donning on a specific colour.The usually coquettish males begin to nod and knowingly wink at the poor bachelor batch mates of mine as if to say ....we know what you did last summer.
As for yours truly, it is amusing to note that when people perceive you as even above average looking, it is naturally assumed that my social calendar would be full of marks and crosses and that I must have several plans and suitors falling in line......I would benignly smile while redeeming them of their self made conclusions and graciously move on only to find my batch mates enclose me with their demands as to what rocking plans have I made for the V day. Finally ensconced in my work cubicle, I engrossed myself in multi-tasking between having an online conversation with friends; answering useless queries over the phone; calculating the amount on debit vouchers and for the nth time cursing stupid rules of accountancy.
As for yours truly, it is amusing to note that when people perceive you as even above average looking, it is naturally assumed that my social calendar would be full of marks and crosses and that I must have several plans and suitors falling in line......I would benignly smile while redeeming them of their self made conclusions and graciously move on only to find my batch mates enclose me with their demands as to what rocking plans have I made for the V day. Finally ensconced in my work cubicle, I engrossed myself in multi-tasking between having an online conversation with friends; answering useless queries over the phone; calculating the amount on debit vouchers and for the nth time cursing stupid rules of accountancy.
My dance class was no different with all the lovely ladies decked out for the occasion and waiting for their beaus to come and whisk all of them (all of them are coincidentally friends) to a priorly booked restaurant. I refuse to be envious or wistful.....I come back home sans dance class and back to a lonely welcome of my home......Valentine's Day....I mused...the day one is supposed to be with the acknowledged close one....which has never happened in my case.......but I am happy.....for a reason best known to me and which made my day special......
So I lay to a rest my cynicism about this day and postpone it to next year....
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