The 3 mistakes of my life!!

Greetings! After wailing about my life in Bangalore in my last post, I am back with a new "experience". One thing I should say is that I have acclimatized myself to the ways of Bangalore life which I mentioned in the previous update ;) One year into production support in a software company has made the word "update" a regular usage in my everyday life. When you earn your bread by giving more "updates" than solutions, you have every right to that :D. Atleast I feel so. Forget all that, this was just something for the first para and does not have any relation to the context of this post. So pls continue to the next para. I know you dont feel like, but pls read through as I am about to spend my valuable time tonight (ofcourse I am writing this after the day's office work) on the other paragraphs which do not exist as of now! :)

Thanks for considering my request. This post has no relation whatsoever to Chetan Bhagat's new book "Three mistakes of my life”, other than the fact that I am adopting his title for this post and the 2 characters other than me in the events mentioned are given the names of the hero and heroine of the book (I think I should mention that I had a good time reading the book). So the hero of my story is, as the name goes Govind and the heroine Vidya and the lead role (a ridiculous one unfortunately) is yours truly. :)

Govind and I grew in our hometown together. And having grown together, we knew each other pretty too well :). The 3 year age difference was no bar for our friendship and let me tell you,Govind my cousin is one of the sweetest persons I have ever come across in my life. It all starts with Govind well settled with a good job, and the most eligible bachelor of the neighbourhood and myself the boy next door who just completed his graduation and having a pretty decent job offer in a multinational(Pls allow me to project myself at par with the hero, atleast make an attempt). That’s it for a general intro on the state of affairs when our story takes place.

Some of the mistakes a person makes, starts with some prejudices that person keeps in his mind. The mistakes of my life belong to this category. I always had the notion that Govind was the "good boy" of the group (trying to look things from a parent's perspective). He may make comments on girls when in our company, he may talk freely with girls whom he knows, but I always thought "He will never fall in love with a girl”. The first mistake of my life!!

Our "most eligible" is still a bachelor getting a lot of marriage proposals. I knew about this as Govind himself had told me so. The stage is set for the second mistake. I was killing time with my new hobby of reading the Orkut profiles when I happened to go through Govind's profile. I thought of scrapping him and opened his scrapbook. My dear reader here comes the third character to the story. Vidya,our heroine's scrapbook entry :) As there were no other scraps from girls and there were two from this lady, I clicked the link which took me to her profile. Sorry Govind no mood to scrap you now! As expected no photo of the lady who will eventually become the heroine in this blog. After some more days I saw her scrap again in Govind's profile. The next day I saw Govind and asked him "Hey man! Been seeing too many scraps from this girl Vidya in your scrapbook. You know her?” And the reply came "Met her in orkut. We chat sometimes. Thats it". "Will this end up a love story? Or you are already in l.., hehe" I teased him. He replied, with the very innocent Govind expression, "Nothing like that". I believed that statement from Govind.Of all the certainties I believed in this world, this one was the most certain (melodramatic exaggeration, sorry for that), "I will be the first to know if Govind falls in love with a girl". And that makes the second mistake!!

Now there is a long duration in time and by this period, I had made my previous post :). I was on a weekend visit to one of my relative's house in Bangalore. I was busy talking to them when my phone ringed. The name "Govind" was displayed. Since I had a talk with him 2-3 days back, I was surprised and thought why he will be calling now. A very odd time, of 3 on a Sunday afternoon, knowing the person who was calling. Usually Govind will be busy "THINKING" at these times after the lunch. :) I answered the phone, with a modulated "Hello" since I did not want the relatives to hear our usual way of talk. And then I heard the shocking news! No it was not "I am in love". I could have withstanded that news pretty well. But this one was worse. "Hi man, my marriage is fixed" Govind's voice rang reverberations through my head (sorry again for giving such terrible and pathetic melodramatic descriptions repeatedly).I could not ask anything else. I just heard all the events at his end for the day. How he and his parents went there to see Vidya and how everyone liked her. My third mistake was this: ‘I believed I will know well in advance from Govind if he was going to see some girl as per some marriage proposal which was proceeded forward by both families!’

All is well that ends well. It turned out that Govind had asked his parents to proceed with Vidya's proposal(horoscopes, go to hell !) since both of them were in love( I am not sure how much Govind and Vidya will agree on this statement, but still I believe thats the truth).Govind and Vidya are happily married now and the best of it all is that I find Vidya fitting easily into the talks and friendship that myself and Govind share. The one moral of this story, which I learned "Never trust your cousin when it comes to matters regarding love ;)". This blog materialized after a chat Vidya and I had in Gtalk. During the chat I came to know that Govind had gone to Vidya's house to see her once, much before he went "officially"!!!!!. No, I cant add more to the count of mistakes. :) "Upon God, never trust your cousin when it comes to matters like this". :) I called Govind the moment I heard this last revelation and promised him "For all this secrets you hid from me I will make them public. I will blog them!". And this one is for you Govind. :)

Last nail in my coffin :

I am trying to present a love story of myself before Vidya during a chat session (Ofcourse with the finesse Kevin Spacey's character tells the story in "Usual Suspects"). I messaged Govind that I am going to tell a story and the name of my lady love :O and that he should co-operate. With this I started crafting a magnificent story with all the essential ingredients for a love story and presented it to Vidya. I said it in the most convincing manner and even showed her my lady love's photos!! I was so impressed with my imagination and was about to stop the story when Vidya said "That was a nice story, I enjoyed it". Govind had told her what I am doing!! Thats it, the last nail in my coffin. I am dead!! May my soul rest in peace ..