Face OFF - Man vs Woman cute incident that happened in my life.

We are lost so deep, so deep into our lives that we miss some small but beautiful things that take place around us. It was one fine morning, when I was walking in the beautiful garden that I realized one of such small things, which I would have missed to spot before. The garden is placed right at the center of Airoli Mindspace where my new company is located. The light streams passing through the branches off the trees and shinning like a diamond over the dews on the grass gave it a majestic look. 

Note: The photo clicked is of Airoli mindspace garden. This was taken early in the morning so no one was around.

New job and higher position with no team had given me a chance to spend some time alone. And to be honest, I did not mind time with myself; it gave me a chance to look back on the things that had happened in 2014. I saw a lush green grass bed with trees providing enough coolness. I just wanted to lie down over the soft velvet type green bed. I wanted to but some part of my brain was not allowing me to do that. I was wearing a well ironed sky blue formal shirt which I did not want to spoil. I was also worried of how it would look like a professional like me lying over the grass. Embarrassment was enough of a reason for my brain to keep the child within me quite. That is when a small droplet of pure water falls off my face and all I did was not think. Because sometimes when you stop thinking, you act or rather say react but it is still an action. I had lost one of my good friends and I knew if he was around he would have surely lied down and forced me to lie just beside him. He was a fully grown man with a heart as childish as a ten year old that was very hard to find anywhere else these days. And I am glad I did that, I got a lot of stares and I was not sure if they wanted to do the same or they were just amazed at me being so childish. And Somehow I was smiling back at them for being so childish and fighting their own child which wanted to come out. These are the moments in life that you notice very minute details, like the ant trying to climb a wall and failing, a spider trying to build a web and failing. And you know what If you give them the time, you would see them succeed. See from a child's eye and you would be astonished to what we are missing in our day to day life by caging the child within us. We want to be so self righteous, perfect, stubborn and egoistic in some ways that we miss the fun in life. This is when I noticed a face off, a very cute face off between the two different species. Man vs. Woman. If you feel they are from the same species then you should probably get married. No offence to anyone who is happily married but just a thought. A wife would be less worried about her husband being lost than her dog. :P A gal was walking along the footpath that ran right through the garden when our eyes met for say a sec. If it was a normal day I would have left it at there. But this was different; I looked at her again, for just a sec and turned around. But as you know our boyish brains have some problem catching signal the first time, so I looked back again. Again it was not a prolonged look, just a glance. She was wearing a blue jeans and pinkish half sleeve top. The gal looked at me probably for a sec and moved on. I could almost see a sense of victory on her face, as if she had won the round for not looking again. It was funny though I do not know what we were fighting for but even I felt as if she had won something. I knew she would come by for the next round, I was prepared this time. My mind was constantly telling me, "Do not look at her, no matter what just ignore her. Let me win this round at least. She came by this time and as promised to myself, I did not look at her, until.... Oh ho, that is what my brain said too when she started to sing just before she neared me. Her voice was sweet as honey; there was no way I could have stopped my reflexes to not look. The stare I got back was off, "Have you not heard any gal sing before, stop starring at me." Damn, why, why did I move my head around? Am I even in my senses? It was obvious who won this round. I was just praying and hopping that there would be more rounds for me to come back. She came back again and this was probably her mistake because this time I was not going to give in at any cost. "YOU ________, I know you want her to win. Yes I am talking to you readers, especially my friends. Anyways, so she came by and even stood there probably to switch the song. And for you Losers out there who think I turned, I did...not.. :P

She was going on talking, Should I pick "What makes her beautiful" or "You are beautiful"?

Baby you light up my world like nobody else,

The way that you flip your hair gets me overwhelmed,

But when you smile at the ground it ain't hard to tell,

You don't know,

Oh, oh,

You don't know you're beautiful,"

Yes that is what I sang. Oh come on that does not mean I lost. I just wanted to sing but that is what I was thinking. How would I know what she was thinking of this round? If I had won or lost this round. Yes, I had to look at her face to know her reaction. Damn, not again. So I was looking from the corner of my eyes, you know to gauge the situation. Although, my brain was pointing to me some interesting facts. Wait; hold on, she is the one who stopped in front of me just to juggle a song. Come on she wanted to let me know something. Probably she wanted me to choose her song that is why she came over there on the first place. So, I left all my doubts about losing and looked at her. She was giving me a stern look, although I could feel she was laughing her hearts out from inside. Well who can blame her? She looked deep into my eyes and she still had that stern look in her face. Then a smile brightened her entire face that calmed my stupid little heart that was beating very hard by now. No, do not worry, I did not show even a bit of worry on my face but that smile wow. That is when I realized it was never a fight or a face off. Her losing could have never been my victory. Her smile was my victory. It was a face off between our ego's and this time we won as humans or we would have lost as humans. One could not have won alone. At this point I would have loved to end the story as if she lied just besides me and we talked for hours. But that is not what happened. She went her way and I went my way. We probably would not have met for the rest of our lives but I would have always remembered her smile and the last words she said , "It is my favorite song too". Just to let you all know, I have met her once or twice with her friends. And we always share a smile that neither mine nor her friends understand. I could see from her facial expression that she has a hard time explaining it to her friends and just saying, "No nothing." What she could have possibly explained to her friends that we had a face off and I had helped her to pick her favorite song. Sometimes, something's are better left unexplained. At the end we won over our egos and I have this smile sharing cute acquaintance of mine.