hello i'm jayashree, and you are.....?

browsing through profiles, there's one thing that you ALWAYS find they have in common... under "interests", cramped in between the miscellany of movies, books, travelling, sports, blah blah, you find the ever-present meeting new people. now i am one of the people who posts that in their profiles. i used to figure i LOVE meeting people, expanding friends' circles, getting new ideas, learning about new cultures, building new bonds.

and then you think....yeah right!

see there are some people you hit it off with instantly. there's the connection and you think, shit, i'm enjoying myself.

then there's the other group of people wherein you KNOW it's going nowhere but in the true spirit of determination, you persevere.

it's an uphill task.

Me : So, which school did you go to?
Them : ABC school in chennai.
Me : Oh, the X Nagar branch?
Them : No, no, the other one. Near the airport.
Me : Oh, right. Cool. School was fun, right?
Them : Oh yes.
Me : Hey, the airport branch? Did you know RTY?
Them : Who?
Me : RTY. She was in the commerce section?
Them : Oh sorry, i was in science.
Me : Oh, okay....
Them : Yeah.
Me : So....what music do you like?
Them : Oh, any music!
Me : Awesome, what bands?
Them : Oh, any bands!
Me : Right.... hey so what school did you say you were from?

makes tedious reading? it's even worse in real life. i agree with the belief that you can't go by first impressions, that it's only after you strike up conversations with people that you really get to know them and all. but seriously... after a point, after you've had THIS sort of conversation with about ten-odd people, you think - who needs to meet more people anyway?

now this doesn't make me unfriendly or an introvert. impatient, perhaps. you realize you're doing all the talking and that neither of you are interested but at the same time, you're both too polite to cut it off.

of course, on the bright side... you talk to about ten people like this and then enter the eleventh.... and everything becomes worth it!

i love it when you discover the bond or the chemistry right from the start. where you can spend hours talking or messaging or emailing and it's STILL not enough because there's always so much more to say. and later due to circumstances when you start losing touch or losing track or you realize that the contact's not the same... you start fighting damn hard to make things work again.

i know who i'm talking about....