Sanyukta – The Woman Who Gave Me Happiness

Early January ,one year, I met someone and that someone stole my heart away, right there right then the moment I saw her…

I crossed a popular cards and gifts gallery and there she was ….Buying a big teddy, really big and cushy teddy from the store for her younger sister. Her smile just pierced through my heart as I saw her more and more. I just stopped. Called my secretary and told her to cancel all my appointments for the day. I simply did not want to miss out this moment..She was giggling with her friend but here I saw a girl who was full of life unlike we corporates who get stuck with regular formalities and stop living a life…She got on with her friend in her white scooty and rode past me when I suddenly realized that she is gone…Just like the way I saw her…I lost her too.

I was very dejected and went on with my day cursing my bad planning of not following her. Being a workaholic I called my secretary and re scheduled all my cancelled appointments and went about my work

Day 3- I was in a coffee shop meeting a client and there came a group of people ,loud and brash disturbing me meeting. I was getting angry and started looking at them..Every single one of them. Suddenly j heard one of them saying guys quiet and my eyes fell on that beautiful face who had just said those magical words. Her eyes met with mine and she said sorry on behalf of them in an animated tone..I smiled and looked at her, assuring her that her apologies are accepted.

I look down and smile again and start talking to my client when it struck me I saw a familiar face and I looked there again…Just behind this girl whom I had spoken animatedly to I saw a woman sitting and laughing ..Oh my god …. There she was ,the woman I missed out the other day from the gifts gallery and god heard my prayers that I found her…But wait a minute ..I think she was married as I saw mangalsutra and sindoor on her forehead..Oh yes she was married…I was very badly dismayed and concluded my meeting before its time accepting some conditions of my client which I would not otherwise on a regular day. My intention was just to move away from there…Why did I miss out her being married the other day….How could I eye a married woman that way….Just did not seem right to me and I got into moral and ethical questioning to myself…Howsoever I took it as a sign from god and moved on but could not take her out of my head.

Day 4- I was in the same coffee shop sipping my coffee and staring out in the oblivion extremely disinterested in what is going on in and around me..I was lost in my thoughts when a voice very sweet yet very authoritative echoed my ears breaking my plain and blank but intense thoughts“ it’s a busy coffee shop and you can’t take the liberty to just have coffee and sit occupying one whole table”. I was so annoyed on hearing something like that…That I turned in anger breaking my thought to give the other person really good taste of my temper.