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Was there a stranger you met once, are not likely to meet again, and who profoundly affected you?
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I don't know how much does this fit here but it's my story which happened with me 1.5 years ago. First I'll give a small background about myself:
I am a girl doing my M.tech in Computer Engineering in one of very prestigious colleges in India.
Now, here's my story:
This happened in first semester of my M.tech. Once, I went to my college canteen just after our classes had finished. I had ordered maggi and was waiting for it. My order got ready and at the same time enter this guy he had purchased a hot beverage(either tea or coffee). It happened such that at the same time we came back after taking our orders I came and sat back to the table I was sitting earlier after taking my maggi. It happened such that the my table was the only one which had just one person sitting others were fully filled. This guy I don't know how but came and sat at my table.
Since, I was sitting alone so I didn't mind he sharing the table with me. After sometime we started talking to each other. While talking I came to know that he had done his undergrads from another very famous college in India. He was doing a project in my college. We almost talked for an hour.
I thought this was the end and we may never cross each other like this. As, we did not exchange phone numbers and just knew each others first names.(So,no chances of finding each other on Facebook)
But, fast forward four months, my college organizes each year an exhibition where various researchers showcase there work. There this guy along with his lab mates was also showcasing his project. I talked to him a little bit and asked if would come for coffee with me. We went to canteen but I found some other friends there and we joined them (In short we didn't talk much). But by now at least I knew his full name.
I felt bad that I invited this guy but could not talk to him. So, I searched him on Facebook and messages him sorry. This was it we started chatting on Facebook. This led to going for coffee or meals together. This led to going on long walks inside the campus together.
We used to discuss many things like our dreams, crushes, our passions, cultures(Since, he was a south Indian and I am from North India) etc. I felt that there exist people which exist who are as weird as I am. This was the time I came to know he is going USA for master's and would be doing a Ph.D later on. This was the same thing which I wanted to do going for a Ph.D after my M.tech is done.
In all this process of roaming with him in the campus helped me break the shell around me where I assumed that could just to talk to boys in a professional ways and could never be casual friends with them. This little friendship with that guy made me comfortable in talking to boys and removed the fear from my mind where I had lost the courage to be friends with guys after an incident in my life which had changed my outlook towards boys.
Once, we ate pizza in open air amphi-theatre in my college, this was the thing which I wanted to do since day I entered the college. :-)
And there were many more such things which we did together which I had always thought of doing in college. This small time with him made me a very broad minded person in terms that good guys can be different from what I had a thought in my mind.
We met the last time on 25th July 2015, 3 days before he left for USA to pursue his master's. After that we chat on Facebook or Google Hangout.
I don't know if I'll ever meet him in person or not. But ya this the little time for which he was in my life has changed me forever I feel that I have become a more broad minded person than I was before.