E 2 her smile !

And then she exchanged a smile!

June 9, 1990 10:00 AM

I was having a very bad day at work! Not that my tasks was tedious. My day was bad if getting shat on by a crow during office hours counts as work. I cleaned myself up and walked into my cubicle. All my colleagues who seem to have lost their sense of humor way back before their birth were sitting stiff faced. I tried hard to not to lock eyes with anyone of them. That would be awkward because we were too proud to be polite.

June 9,1990 12:00 Noon

My friend didn’t turn up to office that day. So I had to have my lunch alone. To make things worse, the food court at office was so full of people that I still doubt that it was open for outsiders that day. A perfect ploy by God after knowing for sure that I was super pissed. That’s that. I stood waiting for food in the queue which was pretty longer than our train ticket queue. For a long time, I stood there ranting and cursing almost everyone that passed by (flurry of in-house mental abuses, obviously!), I brought out my exquisite grumpy behavior.

June 9,1990 12:45 PM

And then I saw a girl observing all this and chuckling. With hunger in my stomach and anger in my veins, I looked straight into her eye to confront her. But she winked and pointed towards the counter. Now that was a response you wouldn’t get that often. I obediently got my meal and on my way back, I saw her again.

And then she smiled!

Years 1990 – 2015

She is not a person who believes in grant gestures. The high on booze birthday parties, the expensive gifts, the mandatory selfie after a foreign holiday; none of these things ever mattered to her.

She tells me that these planned celebrations seems fake and the fact that it is orchestrated makes it predictable and boring. Though we always have a great argument on whatever topic we discuss, I have never questioned her on the philosophical front. Since she always seemed to make sense.

She is the one that most of us would never meet. She would prefer an unanticipated kiss on the forehead rather than a diamond necklace, an honest on the face criticism instead of a well worded diplomatic one. She led me into believing that those insignificant moments are the ones that matter- That offering a seat to an elderly person on a moving bus! That door you kept open for a stranger! That time you called an elderly person ‘Sir’ irrespective of their economic status.

She told me and I believed.

June 9, 2015

Today is our 25th anniversary and I am going to fall in love yet again. No fancy gifts, no candlelit dinner, no expensive liquor. Just the two of us and her favourite snack I made for her. I carefully place a greeting card below her favourite snack expecting her to find out sooner than later.

She entered the house with that killer smile of hers and hugged me for that extra second. That extra second was all that was needed for her to convey her wishes. She was evidently delighted to see the effort I put in.

Like she had already read my plan, she grabbed the snack and started munching. I just move to the next room to wait for her until she found out. With utter glee in her eyes, she came running. She has spotted the greeting card. She kissed me and held me tight.

‘ And then a girl made me smile.’

PS: Your loved ones are just a smile away!

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