The big bad screw up

Long, long ago, soon after the sky and earth had become separated so that there was room for trees to grow and the tribes of men to move between them, many gods still lived in the world and I was 19 years old...Yours truly decided that he was in Love. 

As a matter of fact, desperately so and with special emphasis on the “desperate” part. Also I experienced everything I read or heard about that ever eluding feeling of love.My naivety led me to believe that the subject in love experiences the following:

1.  Blindness: “love is blind”. Whoever said that forgot to consider the fact that you just may be stuck with a really ugly looking person for the rest of your life. Try replacing the word “Wonderful” with Bored and “Beautiful” with Ugly in the song Wonderful tonight by Eric Clapton.                        

               We go to a party and everyone turns to see
               This Ugly lady that's walking around with me.
               And then she asks me, "Do you feel all right?"
              And I say, "Yes, I feel bored tonight."

1. Longing: That is bound to happen especially when you have met the woman concerned about 8 times in 4 years, and 6 out of 8 times at her home with her folks in audience.
2. Pain and Anguish (read Frustration): That followed by bouts of self pity.  
3.  Career hitting the road south: Courses like Engineering may get sacrificed at the altar of love.
4. Betrayal: “Not telling the truth” though can be technically considered as “not lying” but it’s certainly not same as telling the truth!

And that is followed by proclaiming oneself as the messiah of love a.k.a Love Guru.

Love Guru:  Noun. The spiritually enlightened creature in your local FM channel with a seductive (read gay) voice, advising mere mortals (read pimply teenaged kid, fat aunties and middle aged man) on affairs of love.

Post that fiasco I tried flirting with love once in a while and I mostly succeeded. I never cared about breaking anyone’s heart and that is how I became an asshole I never was. Eventually I got tired of it all and I became just plain old me i.e., the guy who owns an island before he turns 25.

Checkmate...Love!

So to know what happened in 2008...please read my book “Love in the time of Recession”.

Just kidding....hopefully will write about it in my next post.

P.S: To be fair to the person I supposedly fell in love with, we were both kids and we might have felt some connection and mistook it for something deeper. Then she truly fell in love with someone else and it was foolish and inconsiderate of me to take that as a betrayal. I wish her luck in all her future endeavours and hope she has a happily ever after with the person she loves.