Coming from Jalandhar the city beautifully preserved the rich heritage, architecture, and culture of Punjab life suddenly changes for Sujeet when he entered the city of dreams Mumbai. Mumbai is tough for me. Being from Jalandhar the city known for its rich ancient culture, then stepping into Mumbai the city of dreams was bit a difficult task for me but somehow I knew that I wanted to achieve something in my life. I came from an extremely humble background. So all I could do is just get myself into Mumbai and do my best. Who knew that first day of my college life would be as beautiful as I could imagine it be. Ya, the campus was beautiful, the college building was beautiful. But something more beautiful than this around me that day was this girl. I didn’t knew her name and of course, I am not supposed to know her name. It was the first day of college. So there she goes with flickering her duppatta passing by me. All I could do was pray to almighty that she happens to be in my class.
We entered our first class from the engineering. As horror as it could sound the first class was difficult for me maths, physics all did not make any sense to me because I was thinking of that duppatta which I saw few minutes back at the campus. The first class was done. And I was pretty sure that she ain’t in my class. As she hasn’t come yet. So I was just thinking that after the mid break I would definitely haunt and find out that actually where she belongs. Is she an engineering student or she comes here for some other course? But to my surprise she enters and I could see her coming to me. To my amazement she enters the class. I thought that she must be here to meet some of her friends. Because I was pretty sure that she ain’t from my class. But then she was coming here right towards me. The seat beside me was empty and to my surprise she comes and ask me, “Can I sit here?” Yes is all I could say. She sat beside me but I could not look at her. Few minutes back I was staring at her but she is beside me now and I could not see her.
Time passed and everything around us changed. We had a group of friends. We had our lunch together and eventually we became good friends. And we did not even realize when our friendship turned into love. So along with our degree we also got one more degree that is the degree of love. The main question was what next. She will get a job, I will get a job, but in Mumbai? Maybe I will go somewhere else so as she. What we were supposed to do? This was the serious thing and we need it to sort it over a coffee. So I called her. We meet at the coffee shop. We did not start with the obvious discussion. It was the soft discussion in the beginning. We did talk about how our exams went because we hardly talk about the studies in the last three years. So eventually talked about our friends. How we will miss them. Our friends also join us. And when our friends went we both were silent for almost few minutes none of us spoke. We were just looking at each other. But then it so happened and she asked me, “What we are supposed to do next?”. So I obviously did not have any answer to her question. But all I could say her was let’s go with the flow. She got a job in Mumbai and I got a job in Delhi. It was so obvious that we won’t leave the opportunities that had come to us and we came to the decision that of course, technology is there we can be in touch with each other. But let’s get settle in our lives and then meet each other after making ourselves somewhere into our own lives.
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