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Sunday, February 26, 2017

Its all about the First Impression

It was the day of casualness, when she came into my life. I was wondering where I had been lost all these moments where I have been living without her. Is she the one who is meant to be with me forever ? I hit myself hard to think of an answer that has to be a YES in all aspects.

It all happened when I reached the office that day, I was starting to have a feeling boredom in my day to day life with everything not just work was not in favor of me at that time.  Also, I was feeling the need to isolate myself, in order to search for those troubling situations to focus on them and get rid of them at once. But I believe someone else living up there in heaven, had a better plan of  making my life hell here on earth in a lovely way.

"The clock says 1700 hrs, and I still had to reach office, I was working in the third shift for the day and my job extended to the first daylight of the morning. " How difficult it seems to manage that and still I wanted to do it, maybe because I was waiting for her while going through all this .

That day, I entered the office though five minutes late, but it all changed my life. I had just entered through the main gate and the guard smiled on seeing me; the reason of that smile was me myself. I seem to have been creating a record for myself by reaching office on time but never before time. But today, I was five minutes late, so he might have guessed the nervousness that I was feeling about; not regarding what the HR would say but it was about the manager and the lead who would bug me with all their questions inquiring about the same.

So, I was about to punch my attendance to unlock the main door to the office, but before I was about to place my card to swipe, I heard a knock on the glass door, when my senses entertained the focus to shift inquiring about the reason for that knock; maybe they were mesmerized by the looks of that girl. I was so much affected by her looks that I accidentally jammed my card into the punch machine, which blocked the machine. When I pulled out my card, it had broken into two pieces, the same way a fortune cookie breaks into two.

Is she my fortune ? to early to comment on that. The gate opened and the girl came out, smiled on looking at the broken pieces of card and walked away saying "Thanks" in her very gentle voice. I was getting drooled by her sweet toned voice. My life seemed to have found a new direction to follow in life, at that time but then I saw some of my colleagues making their way in the direction to the meeting room. I could figure out that a meeting was called in order to decide everyone's share of work for the day and I didn't wanted to get into the meeting late to let my manager and the lead to figure out.

We all entered the meeting room. Last person to enter was the manager and he closed the door after him . He asked one of the persons to write each and everyone's share of work simultaneously as getting discussed, for everyone to see it written on the board.

He saw me sitting there, and said, "Are you late today ?" Did you informed anyone about you getting late today ?
I replied him with a so-called reason to let me know that what made me get late today and also told me that I would need a new punching card to mark my attendance from now onwards.
everyone was so curious in knowing the reason behind the card getting broken into two pieces.

We all discussed our plans for the day at work and what could be assigned to whom and all. Just when the new HR, walked towards the meeting room as we could see her coming towards the meeting room with couple of papers in her hand.

She requested the manager to step out for a minute, he just looked at the sheet he had it in his hand and said "lets just wrap things up here today".
He walked out of the room accompanying steps of the new HR as they moved towards the room next to the entrance.

We could all guess that it must be regarding some new joinee or a candidate for interview. So, everyone was anxious in knowing who would it be; the girls in our team always complain to have been less in number against the strength of boys, so they always wanted a girl to join our organization. Maybe, someone was listening to them, who made their wish happen in reality, that too in the next few hours.

The HR brought the new joinee to the floor, introducing her to everyone on the her, even our team. He made her meet our manager first, before introducing her to the team.  The HR required some of her time during the lunch hours to get done with the induction process, he had an urgent meeting to take care off and he requested to help her and accompany for the lunch. I looked at my watch and it was still one hour to lunch and going for a break unless the lunch hours required the permission of the manager. I went to seek permission of the manager and also to request him to send a girl instead of me. He failed my request and asked me to get back to work. Then I did told him that I was requested by HR to do that and also she was going to be a part of the team, what impression would it leave on her; if he would stop anyone of us to accompany her. Though he didn't wanted to, but allowed me to go alone.

The girl had no clue, about what was happening, she was blank and followed me when I requested her. She had got her smile back maybe because she was feeling happy about being not alone or maybe she could figure out everything.

So, we went ahead and sat on the chairs in the cafeteria. She seemed a bit tensed or maybe felt uncomfortable to start up with any conversation, to which I did. I asked her about her experience and what designation she was asked to work . Though I wanted to say or complement her about her looks but I controlled myself of not loosing my chances on the very first conversation with her.  She told me about her  experience and explained to me how she got here. Then suddenly she asked me about what I did as a part of my job, it was very less to say about that but I still bragged a bit about my duties in front of her. She seemed impressed and juggled another question towards me " Do you think, I would be able to justify this job in this particular industry ?". Though she had the experience of doing the same job but for  a different industrial domain, did made her doubt her capabilities. Though I wish I could have said, my love would definitely empower you to get rid of all the obstacles, but instead I said, "Dont worry, you would do well".
On hearing that, that daunting smile was back on her face which made me fall in love with her again and again.

We completed our meal, and I accompanied her to the meeting area. It was tough for me to let that moment end in such a way that was lightning up my life for all these intervals.  As I was moving away from her, loosing sight of her beauty, I was gaining conscious of the side effects of the steps that I have taken to be with her. I had the best meal of my life and I was up for the worst sweet dishes now.
I was hoping for more great lunches and dinners to come after that.