Encounter With A Stranger: A Short Story

No matter how hard we try to manage our lives and restrict ourselves, there comes a time where you become so bored that you decide to break your boundaries. You start taking decisions on your own and let destiny take charge over you.

If I travel few years back and look at my life, I was too lost to even plan my short term goal or let me just say, I was too clueless to have a “to do list” for a day. It was an difficult task for me to figure out what I liked and what I wanted to do in my life. But there came a day where I met a stranger in the middle of nowhere, changed my perception of looking at life.

I Encounter with a Stranger

On 15th June, 2013 I had gone to saloon with my friend just to accompany her as it was Saturday night and she had party to go to. By the time she got dressed up for the party the weather outside turned too lousy. And yes, that was the start of the filmy scene with the visual and background effects with utter thundering, storm, huge traffic, chaos all around in the city of dreams (Mumbai) where no one waits for anyone. Moreover, people here don't walk, they run and I was doing totally opposite of it so it was a bit difficult for

I was all drenched, water poring out from my clothes and purse. I grabbed fresh pair of clothes and ran to take a shower. But no, I was already distracted by my thoughts where thousands of things were poping out, imagination started its work. I waited for my cell phone to bling as I had an instinct he would contact me. I took my mobile phone with me while taking shower, I didn't wanted to lose an opportunity to talk to him. I was nervous and excited to talk to that stranger whom I met few minutes ago. I checked my mobile every five minutes, I wanted that stranger to call me or text me even though I didn't even knew his name. And, asking for his contact number while our encounter was beyond my guts so all I could do was to