Hi Guys. This is yet another one of my posts to talk about one of the areas that have crippled the minds of our nation.
Well, the other day, I was at this bar at Park Street holding a glass filled with “100 Pipers”. There were two empty glasses lying next to it which I had emptied a while ago. It was beginning to intoxicate my mind a little. I was a bit exhausted by the day’s work and was just beginning to relax. My mind went into a myriad of thoughts involving events that took place during the day. There was a tap on my back and I turned around to find Sagar. Sagar Arora was my school mate whom I had not seen for 2 years. I was shocked to meet him so unexpectedly. The following is the conversation I had with him.
Me: Sagar!!! Man. What are you doing here? So nice to see you after so long.
Sagar: Buddy, how are you? I am posted here in the city for a project for my client. What are YOU doing here all alone?
Me: Well, just a little drink after a very grueling day. Where are you staying here?
Sagar: I got a flat here at Ballygunge.
Me: So how is everything? How is Pooja?
Sagar: Dude, I broke up with her.
Me: What??? You were serious. I thought you guys must have been married by now.
[A LONG PAUSE]
Me: What happened bro??
Sagar: Shit happens man.
Me: But shit like what?? You were one of the best couples man!!
Sagar: Yaar, I found something about her.
Me: Like?
Sagar: She confessed something.
Me: I am sorry yaar, but was she cheating on you?
Sagar: No!! but she confessed that she was….
Me: What??
Sagar: That she was not a virgin.
Me: And??
Sagar: And what??
Me: And what else did she confess that made you break up with her??
Sagar: This is it. Isn’t it enough??
Me: Enough for what, friend? Breaking up with her? I don’t think so.
Sagar: How could I tolerate the fact that she had slept with guys before me?
Me: Hadn’t YOU slept with girls before you met Pooja??
Sagar: Yes. A couple of girls. But that’s different.
Me: How is it different?
Sagar: Well, I am a guy and I had the ABILITY to flatter a few girls. They became my girlfriends and things happened. But those were before Pooja.
Me: And Pooja’s affairs were before you? Right?
Sagar: But…..
Me: But????
Sagar: But she’s a girl dammit!!! Someone else USED her. I couldn’t accept that.
Me: Used????Did you guys love each other??
Sagar: Of course we did. But that’s not as important. Cant you see the point I am making here??
Me: Alright. I get your point. This is not important that you guys loved each other or not. What’s important, is that did she get “USED” before she even met you. What about you getting “USED” before you met her???huh??
Sagar: Man, I didn’t get used. I am a guy. I used them. I never got used!!
Me: So what about the girls, whom you “used”??? What would happen to them, if they got a LOSER like you after you were done with them?? They wouldn’t accept them because a loser once “used” them. Just look at the cycle brother.
Sagar: How come you call me a loser???
[ I already had enough and was beginning to feel sick of the discussion. I put down my glass of the unfinished scotch that I was clutching on to the whole while, and paid the bill]
Sagar: Where are you going??
Me: I feel like puking and trust me, its not because of the alcohol!!!!
I was out in the streets in no time. I just had one of the most sickening conversations in my life. It was ridiculous. I couldn’t expect this coming from Sagar Arora, one of the finest boys from school. Well, that’s what I thought before this chat of ours. But, now I realized he also became quarry to this epidemic of narrow-mindedness that had bound this country. I had come to realize it soon enough in the bar, that whatever I say could never change his mentality, which is why I chose to walk out immediately. This is what we have become. A bunch of hypocrites, so prejudiced that we cant respect other’s self-rights. I couldn’t believe this was the same land, which during the Rig Veda, used to be called the land of “Men-Women Equality”. What have we come to be? Where are we headed towards? We all talk about Men –Women Equality but are we really that broad-minded?
Chew on this people, as I write my next blog post!!!
P.S.- I did not for once feel sorry for the girl, Pooja. In fact, I felt she was lucky that she got rid of a loser. 🙂
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