College is to find the Love – By RJP

We have learnt this from cinema – College is to find the love. So, every one of my friends tried hard to find their soul mate.  My strong belief was some girl would get mesmerized by my personality, qualities, sense of humor, intelligence [if there’s any], talents, smartness [wait, from my perspective I am the Hero] and looks [honestly I used to look thin & pathetic].  I remember, once my chemistry lecturer had asked me to stand up when I was trying something funny with my friends. 

“Look this guy… He looks like some sick person… Hey, what were you doing there man..?”

These insults never last more than 4 hours. My friends will never make any situation getting emotional. For us everything in life is really crazy & funny. Our strong belief is that there’s always one more reason to laugh.

At hostel, one guy asked me:

“What color shirt you are going to wear tomorrow?” 

“Why?” 

“Tomorrow is valentine’s day, right?” 

“Hmm… So..?” 

“So tomorrow the color of shirt you are going to wear indicates your current romantic status. Blue means you are already in Love. Green & white means you are free. Pink means this valentine’s day you are going to propose. Red means you love someone single sided……. and black means you are against love”

That was really interesting and I felt that the next day’s shirt color is going to determine my life in many colorful ways.  It was a mixture of feelings – happiness, thrill, fear, doubt & many unusual feelings.  Which color shirt to select?  But I could able to decide one thing very strongly – I should not wear black shirt that would be funny.  And also I shouldn’t wear pink.  Otherwise, otherwise… My God… Even now am feeling shy…J!  Girls would get scared & run away from me.  What if am wearing some brown shirt?  No… No…  I should indicate something to the gals…   Who knows someone would be waiting desperately for me …?!

Finally the next day I had selected a fine blue shirt.  I was thinking some girl’s poor little heart would break by looking at me. Second reason was that I didn’t want to beg anyone’s love. In-build self esteem system made me to take that decision.  Third reason – it would filter many unwanted proposals. 

In the class room, some guys were wearing white/green. Very few guys were wearing pink. Some red, some black as well.  Really they were looking funny. Majority of guys were wearing some useless strips, checked, mixture of various colors.  They did not believe in this wonderful Valentine’s Day game.  Leave them. Everywhere you can find such type of people, who fall on neither side.  Leave them.   They are required to make us distinct.  Gaussian distribution shows majority falls around Mean. We are the people deviating drastically from the Mean. Silence… No science…!! Turn our attention towards lovely ladies!  

Wow….! They were looking stunning but… but they were sincerely doing the assignment works… My brain was choking… They were talking among themselves some unnecessary talks about the Electric Circuits problems, Laboratory Assignments, Drum stick sambar for lunch, etc.  None of them got shocked or shattered by my Blue shirt.  I am sure most of the girls wouldn’t have noticed my blue shirt till the evening. “Oye Ladies… Look at me… How shameful for a guy? How much effort I have put in this? Am I looking that bad?”

After reaching Hostel there were many hot news published from every nook & corner of the Hostel. 

“Hey..! You know, that guy proposed to that gal..?”

“And this guy went directly to that gal and proposed”. 

And also some rumors were flying here & there. But the summary is no gal proposed to any guy & no gal accepted any guy’s love. Thank God..! So automatically no gal would come to me propose at any time. Lesson learned.

“Ok, why that gal rejected? But the whole college has seen them together in many places..!”

“It seems she just applied <I just treated you like a good friend blah, blah,… And here after don’t talk to me…> template”

College football ground has seen many hearts got kicked out effortlessly.  Auditorium has seen many pathetic & dramatic performances.  College canteen has seen many tasteless relationships.  Some gals cried [don’t know why].  Some gals laughed [wow! compliment].  Some gals sighed [caring for that guy’s painless retrieval]. Some gals just walked away [leave them. They are not worth loving].  In the conservative heartland where saying ‘I love you’ to one’s own husband is still not allowed publicly. And, expecting a gal to accept someone’s love is quite unimaginable. In such type of conventional society for a guy to come forward and honestly proposing to a gal with all heart & soul requires lots of courage. So friends, it’s the society that made our romantic expedition bitter and not the individuals.

Now we are slowly vanishing into the next level of the life, aligning ourselves to the new roles assigned to us.  But at least during the Valentine’s Day, just think about that ‘someone’ who was ready to share his/her valuable life with you. You are precious. Wow… Lovely smile J

R. J. Premkumar