I was all set to go for late coffee with a friend. Simple,
one would suppose but not when you think about who or what we are talking
about! So the said friend is a senior colleague and works in a prominent
position which makes everything he does NEWS (in bold, caps and italics!) and
since it involves coffee between….gasp…people from the opposite genders of
course its scandalous! Add to it the fact that said friend hedged and hackled
(or was it my imagination being forced into overdrive as a reaction to the
reaction I got from people?) preferring to sms me to come down rather then come
up and invite me in front of other people and the whole thing went down the
proverbial drain, a gutter drain at that!
Small incident but it got me thinking….. no matter how
strong we profess to be, no matter how much we may choose to look down our
considerable noses at loser land in the end it DOES manage to distort and
contort one. O it happens slowly and gradually but like an evil cancer it digs
its roots deeper with each passing second pervading everything you once
believed in and stood for till it metamorphoses you into something horrendously
unrecognizable and it happens despite or maybe inspite of your best intentions
to the contrary.
I have no idea what said friends intentions were but I do
know that in the normal world I wouldn’t have given the ‘him inviting me in
front of everyone or through an sms’ the slightest importance. I so definitely wouldn’t
have made it an issue. I wouldn’t have spent an hour debating with myself
whether it was ‘wise’ or not but HERE I DID and THAT is something which is
fodder albeit unpalatable one for thought! Happy weekend everyone!
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