Friday, July 24, 2009

Short curiosity killed the Tall Cat

Recently the only time that I strongly felt guilty of being short was when I was surrounded by three towering people in an elevator.Now in that tiny kind of place..I was pushed to the back..one of the three TALL giants facing me , another towards my right & the third one towards my left - I felt like a lamb in a herd of giraffe. I just wished I was one of those fantastic 4...so that I cld stretch myself up to their level.

I knew all the three of 'em.That made it worse.It was like being surrounded by not just tall but familiar giants.Almost mocking me for being short :(

So the three of 'em were talking bout their result being declared.And my tall already hyper friend went super hyper on knowing that the result's out.I knew I sld be scared of this girl for being so anxious.Because when she is super hyper...she blurts out unnecessary things.I don't know when & how & WHY , but all of a sudden she said , "M..she is N "
Huh I was staring at her like I had suddenly transformed into a lioness from a lamb .I didn't know if I sld slap her first or say him 'Hi' first.I managed neither. I was frozen.

I knew the guy is M.That one person I been talking to online on & off since last three yrs.
M & I have more than a dozen mutual friends & acquaintances.But I'd never seen him nor had he ever seen me.
I had told my friend of him because I was curious to ensure that he is M.The other day both of us got to know he is M.But I was stubborn that I wldn't go & talk to him since he always seemed to be more interested in talking to me. Fair enough ?? Fair enough!
All these yrs , M occasionally asked me my cell no. & I gave lame excuses like I was sharing my cell with mom :D on which he said that he wasn't going to call me . So I was like..Oh good , whats the point then ? :P
I just found it a bit too weird to keep contact with M when I had only known him online.Maybe I bother too much bout what others might think.And since we were in a close network , I thought we'd naturally meet some day. I just wanted to keep it this way.

BUT to be introduced THAT way ..was embarrassing specially when my friend didn't know him at all ( except his name ) All I told my friend was that if he wanted to talk to me..he sld have been the first one to do so.But guys are difficult. :- to understand , keeping M in mind. And my super hyper friend is even more difficult to handle !

I'm dead sure he knew who I am .And yet that day he said , "Ohhh..I didn't know"
That was far from being innocent.
Liar!

This is the first time I've met an online friend/acquaintance.I was comfortable meeting him for the fact that he wasn't a complete stranger. And yet..I didn't want to be the first one to go upto him & talk.All I can say is people are so different when you chat to them & so different when you meet them in real & I'm saying this even when I did not talk to him much.
But somehow I tend to paint a picture in my mind of how that person's body language must be. Assumption as it is..bound to have variations.

If someone chats to me in simple normal English..I have a different picture of that person in my mind .And if with those same words ..dat person wld tok 2 me in dis rathr common chattin style of eatin lettrs..I'd have a very different opinion/picture about that person.
I know thoughts matter more than a person's chatting style but I somehow always seem to analyze or picture them on the basis on their typing , lol. WICKED!

Anyway. Curiosity killed the Cat. If I hadn't been so curious to know who M is , I wld have never spoken bout him to my friend , and then my friend wld have never introduced us in a way that wld have left me feel so dumb.
It was even more embarrassing when the third tall person, M's friend chuckled & asked him "Offline ??"

Conclusion :
Super hyper friends can do senile things.Remind them to keep their mouth shut.

People you talk to online are very different in reality. Not good or bad , just different from what you assume them to be.

Guys are difficult.

The title is senseless.

9 comments:

  1. I know a girl 'J' she talks to me like i am her best frnd or somethng and the very next day I give her a smile when we meet in public and she walks away as if i have yellow teeth or i hv ugly braces ..or she is blind. or all of the possibilities ..

    # so conclusion number 1

    Girls are weird too :P

    I have met my fellow blogger Nidhi and she cud not be more real that what i thought her to be. she writes the way she talks and vice versa.

    # so conclusion number 2

    People whom u meet OL may/may not
    be the same :)

    and btw i too judge a person from the way he she writes or chats.

    and i am giving u my free impression about 'U'.

    You are reserved, simple(may be), docile (may be), dreamer(for sure), funny (kinda) short Girl(obviously).

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  2. People you talk to online are very different in reality. Not good or bad , just different from what you assume them to be.. Possibly..I was dying to meet my online friend..i still am..he seems to hv forgotten me :(

    But I agree with ur POV..u might hit it off with some1 online..offline it cud b different..

    and i dont think you're short..anyway, i guess its d other way round..those 3 tall ppl were definitely intimidated by ur personality :))) cos u stood out!!

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  3. I felt like a lamb in a herd of giraffe.... rofl.. :D I was laughing all through.. :P

    and M's friend.. hahahaa.. offline.. that was a brutal attack in a subtle way I'd say.. :P

    btw, even I've some times landed into a similar problem cuz of friends' hyperness.. it better to keep mum abt such subjects.. but then, who else would you speak to, if not friends?? ;)

    and yeah.. guys ain't that difficult btw.. :)

    guess what verification text I've to type now.. hyperie.. :P

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  4. Everyone is not their true self online. Personalities take a 180 degrees turn while chatting... Take care about that..

    I have special sympathies for people who are vertically challenged.. I can understand their feelings (sigh!)

    Too many short-forms makes life difficult!

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  5. HAHAAH gurl!!! nice encounter with this M guy.. suits you right!!! why is it dat i remember i had warned yu abut this thing??? hHAAHA nywyas kudos to M,s friend... 'OFFLINE?'

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  6. - Peter
    lol ! No wonder..J is weird :P
    Meeting blogger friend must be different.You don't just chat to 'em , you read their lives.Get to know them far better than any of their actual friends , ain't it ? Its good though you found your friend to be exactly the same =)
    And I agree that ppl you talk to ol may or may not be same.But if they are not the blogger friends , I can gaurantee they will appear much different.

    You are a lil right bout me.I'm reserved & simple not docile though :S Funny ? lol Dunno :P


    - Swats
    Oh! I too wanna see another online friend of mine but I wonder if he ever wants to meet me :(

    Yup thats true!

    He he..am short :) Intimidated by my personality ? Wow :D Ye kab se hone laga ? :P

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  7. - Saad
    lol yup brutal attack :P

    Yeah friends do crazy things & we provoke them to :P Not their fault at all !

    I'm sure all guys aren't difficult ;)

    lol @ hyperie



    - Abhinav
    Quite probable.

    Vertically challenged ? :S Haw! Aisi bhi sympathy mat do! :D


    - Donna
    Lol! You're making me laugh so much. Encounter with M ..suits me right ?? Lol! No wayy!
    Honey you warned me of something else :P

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  8. A good post here Sugar. I loved it. It spoke volumes abt online r'ships. It's imp to know all of this.


    **People you talk to online are very different in reality. Not good or bad , just different from what you assume them to be.

    Thats very true. I hv never met an online friend face to face yet, but I DO KNOW that they will be different in real. one cannot expect a person to be the exact same image of their blog-image when they r in real. cos in blogs/chats etc, all we do is WRITE n READ. Its hard to grasp a person's entire image just from reading and writing. And it's unfair to do so too. When u really meet someone, there's no reading or writing there...new things come to light..such as talking, body language etc...and these will be brandnew things u learnt abt that person. So it seems strange. But if u continue to be friends with em in real, u will truly get to KNOW who/what they r. Its human nature.

    btw I dun like to give my number/address etc to most online friends unless I really know them well. one other reason why is cos Im not sure if I'll gel well with em in real. Cos once again, like u said, online and offline personalities r different.

    Keshi.

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  9. "ll I can say is people are so different when you chat to them & so different when you meet them in real"
    Exactly!!

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