A dash of love, a pinch of hate, a speck of sorrow and a lot of life..
Gentleman: I don’t know f you have seen Forrest Gump but you are like Jenny. You will always remain a mystery to me. I chase you like crazy, not even expecting a second glance in return and you keep eluding me. You are so strange and bizarre and yet that’s what I crave, very well knowing I can never have you…
I have to say it was one of the most heart wrenching thing ever said to me. Being a huge Forrest Gump fan myself, I knew what these words meant. Jenny had always been one of my favorites so it was flattering, just being compared to her ;-)
A friend had said it to me after a very amusing start to our friendship.We continue to be friends without any more "funny" stuff being said anymore..
Gentleman (To my mom): Your daughter, she dances like a dream! I couldn’t stop looking at her feet move as she moved so gracefully.
And as mom was reveling at a total stranger complementing her daughter’s dancing skills, the gentleman came up to me and in a near whisper voice he said to me..
“ You dance so well and your legs…they are so hot! Couldn’t take my eyes off them baby!”
Later that night, he kissed me as I stood dumbfounded. I was 18 then and he must be ten years elder to me. And boy, I could feel the confidence he had gained over the years!! I never met, saw or even heard from him again. I didn’t call on the number he gave me. In fact I don’t even remember his name today. It is better this way. It sounds like a story- a stranger kissing me on the new years eve… J
Gentleman: I do need you, but I think you need me more, considering how you are- lonely even in the most crowded places…So I will hang around, for your sake you know…
Outrageous. That was the first reaction and within seconds of this snide remark being made I realized the callous frankness and pathos of it. It was true. I found myself lost even in a crowd. And yet someone saying it to me like this almost pierced the heart, not to mention what it did to my pride. I didn’t know if it was sweet or malicious but it just flooded my eyes…
Gentleman: You’re a bitch!
Well, I might be one, who isn’t?
Gentleman: Among you and me, you are the dude!
Boy dint I laugh my guts out on hearing that one! It was like I had been waiting to hear that since forever. So obvious and yet never stated. Hell yeah I am the “dude”, being romantically challenged and all. But the dude in question here would like to keep her/his duties largely ceremonial. The actual dude will have to take care of the rest ! :P
The best part was that the gentleman made me smile, and still manages to do it every time and that is something..!!
Gentleman: You are my student and I shouldn’t feel this way about you. But when I teach and my eyes scan the class, it just stops at you...like the gaze belongs there...on you..
I wish I could do something about it but I can’t…
Fine, these lines were spoken in my dreams! So before anyone gets any idea of an unsavory teacher student relationship let me clarify, I had none. Whether that would have been a fortunate or an unfortunate incident will constitute a different debate altogether. To cut a long story short, I had a mad crush on this substitute physics teacher. With his lean frame, check shirts, Byron like hair and librarian glasses he wasn’t exactly the stud girls were crazy after in those days but I adored him. Whoever said love makes you do crazy things was right. And even though it wasn’t love or something even close, it was indeed crazy to do physics numericals just so that I could have more doubts..!!
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