Storytime — Destiny Demystified

Karan : A handsome guy working for a MNC…must be 29 or 30…but looking at him, no one can bet on that…It is jus week since he came down to New York quitting his old job to start a fresh phase of life…He has many friends out there in the city but the recent things tht happened in his personal life made him to refrain from all socio gathering…he really dont want it to go tht way…he don’t know who’s fault it is…rather he know there is no fault at all…but still it happened…now this was his first weekend in the city, tht never sleeps…he stared at his watch which showed 30 past 10…he wish this time, this time of loneliness would fly away like anything…rather he longed tht goddess of sleep would embrace him with her warm hands…but for him sleep seems to be a forbidden fruit…he is not interested in partying anymore…he was very much tired of parties he had in the past…he is searching for something, which he dont know what it is and where he lost..but the quest for the mystery search seems to be unending…grabbed a cup of Café au Lait, which he started luving after a stint period stay in France…”beep beep beep”…he took out his communicator…it showed a POP3 mail from oppugn_destiny@yahoo.com…”i wish, i cud answer the past b4 i could question the future”, he thought to himself and opened it…its reply from someONE, for his matrimony column he posted b4 he headed to NY…

View from Karan’s apartment (wish i had one like this in NY)

Rhea : A beautiful young gal (ya when a Guy can be handsome…) of 27…she knows how the corporates work very well…had been the eye-catcher wherever she goes…must hav got proposed from N mens for N+1 times…but she set herself free from all those corporate chains and now enjoying the bliss of nature in Auckland, New Zealand…She left her well paid job and all the things way bck and now she is totally in a very new chapter of her life, which she want to write it in her own way…she got tired of the monotonous life (wht we all feel at time) so took the fortunes she made and came to this place for a better and meaningful life…well why Auckland…even i donno..thts the way women’s mind go…well even she dont know, in wht mind she was, when she replied back to tht matrimony ad few minutes bck…Tht ad does not hav much info, nor even photo… may be this is wht made her to reply…the ad went like this…”About ME: well i am yet another man from mars, looking for yet another woman from Venus, here in earth…i don’t want this search to be formal…bcos my search is not for some with whom i can just live rather it’s search for the ONE without whom i cannot live…to know me better mail me at yore_escapist@yahoo.com”

Reha’s view of Auckland …(Real photo of it, when i visit)

Looking at the mail…Karan kick started his lappy like a Hayabusa (yep thts how he treat his lappy…fast, consistent, stylish, truly male) and logged into yahoo…clicked the add buddy… typed the id oppugn_destiny…it asked for introduction abt him…he typed “yet another man from mars” and sent the chat invitation…sipping over his coffee he waited for reply…
In other end, when Rhea was about to shut down her system, the invi popped up…she grinned over the response from other end…added up yore_escapist and pinged…

oppugn_destiny: so u r tht yet another guy from mar’s huh?…
yore_escapist : yea..Wht abt u?
oppugn_destiny: Not 4 sure from Venus…
yore_escapist : Was tht a serious interest u showed on my ad?
oppugn_destiny: No not…i am playing cyber prankster
yore_escapist : Girls never change
oppugn_destiny: So do men…
yore_escapist : So wht u gonna question the future?
oppugn_destiny: Sorry i lost tht in my dreams
yore_escapist : May i know abt u?
oppugn_destiny: How do u know i am telling the truth?
yore_escapist : brb
oppugn_destiny: k

Karan grabbed one more cup of coffee…ran the packet capture for yahoo and fed the IP to his IPtracer…IPtracer initiating please wait…the monitor showed a world map…a dotted line started moving from NY to France (20% complete) to Singapor and finally ended up in New Zealand…the monitor showed a trace complete and some techy report popped up…it gave location, and all other system information…

yore_escapist : if u r sure u r not from venus, then u might be from Auckland now…
yore_escapist : seems u got a brand new MacPro
yore_escapist : r u t?
yore_escapist : hello
yore_escapist : Ding

Rhea got surprised, bcos thts the level of knowledge she had about networking technology, even though these tracing and all is not a big deal in real world today…

oppugn_destiny: how u know tht?…tht I am in Auckland and using MacPro…r u sure?
yore_escapist : s i am sure…
oppugn_destiny: ok i admit…i am in auckland and my lappy is MacPro only…but tell how u know?

karan explained the things, though it was bit greek and latin to her…the moment he finished the explanation the other end went offline…he waited for sometime tht she will come online…but no use…girls are girls…he couldnt remember when he slept…when he woke up the next day, it was noon…he felt relaxed…after morning routine (ya the time u get up is MORNING irrespective of wht the hell the clock shows) he set out to roam arnd…but his mind was wavering abt the chat thing…”y she went offline?…was tht not the rgt way i shld hav approached?…did she thought tht I spyed on her?…thts a normal tracebck wht anyone can do…whts wrong in tht…atleast she must hav bid me a GB”…his mind churned out a galore thoughts…he jus decided to remove tht matrimony ad and the link to his anonymous personal site b4 he hit the next weekday as he know how busy its gonna be…the same night he logged on to yahoo and left some offline msg…

yore_escapist : hi…I was bit shaken since u went offline immd even without a notice…i really apologise though I am a kind fo guy who never apologise easily, but when I do, I go with all my heart…will be waiting fo u coming Friday, same time as yest…adieu”

Rhea saw the msg next day itself but thought of replying bck, when he comes online next Friday…The week went so fast as expected…Friday night he logged on to yahoo eagerly expecting a reply…he saw her id offline…is she in invisible mode?…he jus loaded his fav friendship environment in IM and pinged her…at the other end Rhea heard a child laughing ignorantly in the middle of Linkin park…

Well it all started again…both oppugn_destiny and yore_escapist agreed upon few things…never to share the name and past details etc etc etc unless and otherwise thts gonna be the final solution for global warming.

Karan and Rhea started their second world in the chat room…they meet virtually in the cyber world every weekend…it opened up hell lot of ideology, how to look into various aspects of life…they shared their likes and dislikes…Discussed abt heavy metal to hindustani…they bcom so close in a short span of cyber time…though at times they strike the topic’s luv, marriage, and so related, somehow they got diverted naturally or purposefully…well after 4 months…Karan took the guts to ask this weekend wht he was thinking over his mind for the past 3 days, which is eating him…jus one more day to go…

That Friday night…

oppugn_destiny: Hey I got some news for u…
yore_escapist: Now is tht a gud or bad one for me?…dont say u gonna get engaged
oppugn_destiny: How dumb u r to think so…The news is “I am going to Paris next weekend…got some work…Confirmed this week only abt the trip”
yore_escapist: 1 sec…will check my calendar…

Karan quickly ran thru his calendar in his communicator…gotcha…Friday 14:00: Meet with Mr.XXXXX in Paris…the itenary as follows…for karan it was an out of the blue feel…

yore_escapist: Hey thts strange and sweet coincidence…
oppugn_destiny: Y so? (She made the guess but asked so, JLT)
yore_escapist: I am also in Paris next week…

Both their mind want to ask “shall we meet?”…but the struggle of overcoming whom to asks seems to be never ending…as a gal she expected him to ask…as a man he felt bit embrassed to ask some gal whom he know only in the cyber space thinking abt the first time exp he had with Rhea…Finally Rhea broke the silence

oppugn_destiny: Ha ha ha ha ha…(the same IM baby giggled in Karan’s lappy)
yore_escapist: Shall we meet?
oppugn_destiny: Well tht would be grt
yore_escapist: But how can I identify u?
oppugn_destiny: As per our agree, no photo sharing not even name…lets stick to tht… lets meet in Paris at Eiffel tower…time night 10 shld be fine with me …u know my fav color rgt …I will be wearing a saree of tht color…
yore_escapist: Done…Well wht abt me…wht to wear?
oppugn_destiny: Anything is ok…bcos won’t u come and intro urself once u identify me?
yore_escapist: Ya tht makes sense…sure will catch u next week then…

Both felt its gonna be a wonderful day after such a hardship they faced in their past life…both of them decided over their mind to speak upon their past b4 they could go on a commitment, if at all they wanna commit…

Enough is enough…Now I cut short…go directly down the Eiffel tower…there, Rhea is standing in a gorgeous blue saree…she looked arnd toi make sure she is the only women in saree there…and it seems so…she was eagerly expecting tht guy to come to her, though she saw many Indian like men roaming arnd, she dont want to make tht guess whom it would be…

Karan came to the Eiffel…his heart full of expectation and face full of exuberance…As he went near the Eiffel he can see some one in blue saree as he thought…but now face is not visible…he jus went close near her…called her by “oppugn_destiny” for which she turned back to him…

Time frozed…is this destiny?…search of words couldn’t explain the situation for both of them…they couldn’t hear the huzzle and buzzle of the near by…they went beyond this world into a world where silence can be spoken and listened…blah blah blah blah blah…

But it doesn’t took much time for Karan’s brain to realize who’s face is tht when Rhea turned to him…It was none other than his wife whom he divorced a week b4 he left to New York and Rhea to know, whom she is looking at…

PS : Now let me stop the story here…Though I hav my ending which is not going to be the same as u people may think, I giv it to the readers (If any :-)) to decide the ending in their own way…If u really wanna know mine, well mail me … Though I wrote it as a 100% fictional story, there are lot of real life scenarios in this…Na…i don’t wanna get philosophical :-P…My thanks to Dreamvendor…