#WritcoAnthology
You must be Priya!!! I said with all the confidence & zeal. They say that the 'first impression is the last
impression'. I wanted to make the best first impression. But deep down I was very nervous & full of
anxiety. I was asked to meet a girl who was chosen by my parents as one of the candidates for becoming
my life partner. My parents were not happy with the idea of this kind of meeting without the presence
of families from both the sides. But keeping in mind about the 'age threshold for getting married &
settled' that I was about to reach they agreed.Yes and you must be Aakash.How are you doing? She replied very naturally unlike me who practiced thoroughly even on the first line. But God, she was beautiful, as beautiful as she was in her matrimony profile picture. But believe me after few seconds her good looks started rising my nervousness.
Funny but true fact 'For guys with low confidence like me nervousness is directly proportional to girl's beauty'. I am good, how about you? I answered her with question. This exchange of formal questions has always been my favorite. Simple and closed loop. However, there are some questions with similar length that may leave you wondering like anything.
She said-please don't mind I am having the coffee already. I know I should have waited for you to come.
Actually I came to Starbucks after long time so I couldn't resist, I love the coffee here. That is all right I said with my not so natural smile. I was actually thinking about the etiquette that she violated. You see this is us, the human beings. We start to judge others very fast. Just before few seconds I was admiring her beauty and now I just added a negative point in her 'personality list'. After all meetings like this are supposed to give us positive and negatives about the other person. Then we do math on these
numbers and make our mind.
I will have another coffee what you will have? I will get it for you, She asked. I will have cappuccino, I answered with adding a plus for caring in her 'personality list' and I was back to her beauty again. I don't
think that she did anything different to look special that day, yet she was amazingly beautiful. She came
back with our coffees and I started wondering what to say next. I asked one of the 'small but difficult'
questions. I asked her- So tell me about yourself. This question always horrified me because I never
understood how to answer it. You will find lots of answers and suggestion on this if you search it on
internet. I always searched for this before any interview and surprisingly every time.
Isn't it bizarre that every time we need to search and take opinions of others to know our own insight?
I was not worried this time as I asked this question to her first. She looked at me as if I was an
interviewer and deliberately chose the 'favorite interviewer question'. She smiled and replied I know it feels awkward for two complete strangers to meet and know each other. Don't you agree? But fact is
that our first encounter with every relation starts from being a stranger.
I realized that suddenly I was at ease. Yes I completely agree with you, I replied. She continued-actually
with the families around, it could have more awkward. That's what I thought and asked my parents that
I will meet you...