Friday, November 25, 2011

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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