The very title of this post can be perceived in many different ways.
Well, if you are expecting a motivational story containing a struggle to
achieve a specific goal or something like that, this post is certainly not for
you. It contains a mystery I have long been unable to solve. It’s been more
than 8 years of trying but still I have not been successful. In fact majority
of men have tried and failed.
Last weekend I, along with a friend, went for shopping at one of the
prominent shopping places in Chandigarh. Since I had been running short of good
clothes for a long time, I was particularly very excited. Even after spending
hours at all the brand stores I’m fond of, I couldn’t find even a single
article that interested me. Disappointed I thought of heading back home when I
saw a girl (yes! Here comes the topic of discussion) I’d give my eye teeth to
be friends with.
The sudden urge to talk to her was so strong that I started following
her and thereby upsetting all the plans we had for the late evening. After
almost an hour and a half (we all know how much time an average girl takes for
thinking what to buy and at the end of it all comes out buying nothing) I
finally got an opportunity to make a move. Not wasting even a second (for if
she had entered another showroom it would simply have meant waste of a couple
of more hours) I made a move.
‘Excuse me. Do you mind talking to me for a minute?’ I asked.
‘No.’ said she with a little smile on her face. At this moment I was on
cloud nine for there could not have been a better start.
‘I have been noticing you for the past two hours and I really find you
very sweet. Is it possible for us to please be friends?’ I asked
‘I have never been approached like this before. I really appreciate the
level of your confidence.’
Her eyes fairly glittered as she spoke, considerably surprised at my
enthusiasm.
‘So is it a yes or no?’ asked I, my legs shivering.
She smiled an enigmatical smile. ‘Yes.’ she answered.
Continuing ahead I asked her cell phone number which she refused to give.
Instead she took my number.
‘I will call you soon.’ she said, as she bade me good-bye.
‘Good-bye,’ I answered, and strolled along with my friend to the
nearest food joint, considerably happy.
Such was the level of my happiness that I gave a treat to the friend
who accompanied me. The entire episode was so overwhelming that I couldn’t get
a wink of sleep that night. Usually my cell phone remains on silent mode but
the next day I specifically kept it on general mode for I didn’t want to miss
her call.
I waited all day long for her call but my phone didn’t ring. Thinking,
perhaps she was making her mind I didn’t get disappointed and waited for her
call for days together. A week went by but I didn’t receive any call. Finally I
accepted the hard reality.
I have learnt a lot of things about these mysterious creatures (girls)
in the past few years but this event once again shows that I, and for that
matter all the men and boys, need to work harder to unravel the mystery.
As they say, ‘A quitter never wins, a winner never quits.’ I ain’t going to quit and stubbornly carry on trying, trying and trying to understand what are these girls all about.
