In life everything goes according to the plan until you come
across various uncertainties, but a life changing one!
After my marriage, I shifted to Dubai and it had been almost
three months knowing new family and the new place but trust me I didn’t find
anything attractive or mind-blowing in this new place called Dubai. A typical
Mumbaikar at heart, I found this place to be very artificial and fake. I am
sorry but this so called “the happening city” of Gulf had just failed to
impress me. But as I was destined to get married in Dubai I was left with no
option but to improve the living, my way.
So after a gap of three months I decided to take up a job as
I love to face challenges and to deal it my way because I like my life to be
more than normal. I kept applying and my
continuous attempts showed me a dim ray of hope but yes good enough to keep me
going. Yes, I was called for an
interview after a few days of struggle and it was scheduled on a Monday
afternoon and I was to reach the company at around 2.30pm.
I was already running late and suddenly I remembered this
quote “Day that starts well, ends well” (trust me bad days remind you of things
you hated even as a child) and my day had already started on a weird note, I
got involved into a small argument with a hooligan, got stuck while punching my
season card at the metro station (miss our local window ticket counter) and to
add to the day, my water bottle’s cap was slightly left open and entire water
spill on my dress for people to give me weird looks and think “Ah Indians” (smirk)!!!
Somehow after facing all the trauma I reached my destination and with
nervousness at its peak, I gave my
interview and I felt as if I was at a war and my mission was accomplished.
On my way back I was extremely relaxed and with nobody
around you, you tend to talk to yourself (I’m sure everybody does) and I was doing
the same. While walking I was thinking about all that, that had happened to me and
suddenly I saw a beautiful girl in her twenties, blonde hair, spotless face and
extremely beautiful walking towards me in my opposite direction. Being a girl I got attracted to her and this left
me puzzled of how a guy would handle himself looking at this beauty. In a fraction of seconds thousand and more
thoughts swam in my mind like who she is? Does she have a boyfriend? Is her
boyfriend equally handsome? I term such thoughts as TFTS i.e. “Typical Female
Thinking Syndrome” and amidst all this suddenly I caught this girl staring at a
guy who was already accompanied by his girlfriend or should I say his companion
and looked extremely happy with her but what caught to my attention was the
emptiness in the girls eye’s and her expression which spoke almost everything
about her. Though she was beautiful, one in hundred but sometimes you are not
lucky enough and blessed to have your loved one right beside you to make you
feel ‘special’ at any damn cost. I did not feel pity at her loneliness or sad
to know why she was alone? Was she not loved or had she never been in love? I
did not know the answer then and even now but what I understood at that moment
through her urge that said so many words in one second was, whether your
partner is beautiful or not, you are far or near, you are in India or Dubai
what matters the most is to have that one person in your life who you can look
up to, simply hold your hand and say I AM HERE to take care of you and all your
worries.
Now I have no regrets of why I left Mumbai and came to
Dubai, Why Dubai is so artificial? Because what matters to me now is that even
in this artificial land I have one thing for real and can call mine is, my
LOVE.
Life is full of crazy incidents and accidents, you do not
know when, how and what you get to learn and experience! So live with this fact
and enjoy the present without bothering about what you had today, what you lost
yesterday and what’s in store for you tomorrow!
