Episode 85 : I, me and just by myself

Hyderabad, Bombay, Pune, Gurgaon, Noida, Calcutta and Bangalore were my choices. With the added thought that if I had to choose Bangalore, I might as well stay back in Madras...

There were times in my life when I wanted to go somewhere far from home, to a place, like Scandinavia perhaps, where nobody knows me and I know nobody. And live like a recluse.

And then I thought I should first prepare living alone and then think of a solitary life. Circumstances later made me opt for Bangalore despite being the last choice.

Bangalore is a place where I have friends and ex-colleagues in fair numbers, I expected to bump into them somewhere sometime.

The people I bumped into were-
-- Ant, an ex-colleague who I did not expect to see.
-- A Thunderbird rider I rode past at Dairy Circle, only to see him again an hour later at Banerghata Road. I again bumped into him at the St. Marks Barista two weeks later!
-- Sam, who I met at Coonoor and later at Java City, standing next to me at PurpleHaze two days later.
-- Shrek who I met at Hypnos one weekend and bumped into at PurpleHaze the next (and within minutes of finding Sam).
-- And C, the HR exec of the company I so badly wanted to join, walking down the road that runs beside my office.

I expected to bump into none of them. And till now I have not bumped into people I thought I would.

Perhaps Bangalore is preparing me for a life of reclusiveness. As this thought formed in my mind, I felt perhaps things are getting stalled because of a long-pending visit to an aunt's place, the one I kept postponing every week. The last time I had such a thought, I got the feeling things would improve once I complete my post-graduation.

And to my surprise, I was proved right.

Today morning, I got a call from home saying the same aunt slipped, fell and suffered a fracture. Can I visit and enquire her health?

Are the stalled wheels are in motion? Who knows!