Posted:
16 years ago
Chapter 1
Srikanth was back at his desk with a morning cup of coffee, he was an early morning person by choice. He looked out at the quiet city through the glass windows. It was a beautiful but cold morning, the beginning of the fall season. As any downtown people were walking around in trendy fall clothes , the location of his office were surrounded only by office buildings and a few restaurants, coffee shops.
Sri's thoughts went back to india where his modest home were always surrounded by relatives and the thunderous laughter of his little sister and his mom's constant yelling at the servant, he missed them all! His sister too had moved away from home and now working in Singapore. Both his parents had retired from the workfoce and now their primary task was to get their children married. Sri had always been awed by his parents since they had had a love marriage even in those olden days. His parents belonged to different castes and it took eons for them to be accepted by his grandparents. But now another problem ensued, as they meticulously looked for girls for sree the fact that his parents had intercaste marriage were eliminating many potential brides. Sri had completed his masters and took up a challenging position at a leading Networking company in Delhi. He was happy and contended at Delhi and had frequented Chennai almost every month to visit his family. It was then he was offered a chance to go to US from where he travelled to different countries and eventually settled in Washington DC.
Sri peeped forward to look at a couple who were walking hand in hand, his thought went back to delhi where he had courted a pretty damsel Sangeetha. An unpleasant aura surrounded him as he remembered the day she proposed to him. Sri accepted her proposal but within days he knew he had made a big mistake, he couldn't feel that he was in love and in addition to her domineering attitude, it was not the right fit. Sri was a quiet and sensitive person but he liked to talk to a few people about his passions rain, music, ghazals....but sangeetha was the opposite.....she expected Sri to be boisterous like her...Sri tried his best as well, but his failure only provoked her anger more and she left him with an email saying that " We are definitely not made for each other, you are a boring personality, I hope you get a woman who could bask in boredom". It was cruel...What Sangeetha did not know was his angry side, one evening he picked up all the cards she had sent him and threw it on her table....."To hell with you sangeetha"..shocking her. That's when he decided to take up the US offer that he had been refusing for a while and then his life changed.
He had his work, his own little condo that he tastefully decorated, his daily calls to his loving parents and sister, his fast developing cooking skills, his visits to the temple and music programmes, his frequent visits to different countries, his wonderful team at work......everything was beautiful.....but yet there was an emptiness in his life. No, It was not sangeetha..,......that was good riddance to bad rubbish.... On his sister's recommendation he created a profile for himself in a website, he made many friends but he still could not find his soul mate...He turned away from the window as he heard the ding from his computer. You have Mail!
Edited by madumithas - 16 years ago