One fine day

Yesterday was a fine day indeed. A saturday , the first of the weekend, a perfect day to let yourself loose. So me and a couple of new guys ( from my office, they joined when I did) decided to go to The Forum ( in bangalore) . The Forum is a great place to be or so I was told, its hip , its cool, its got movie theatres and a shopping mall. Kind of enjoyed that. Didn't go for a movie though, I rather watch one in my home at my own leisure . So we came out and thought we would just sit around for a while. And this is what happened... spoilt the whole weekend. Don't get me wrong, I am not a kind of guy who is moody. I don't lose my temper nor do I have mood swings. Some people call me the Iceman, nothing really gets on my wrong side, almost nothing.

So we were sipping a nice Pepsi and it is fairly obvious we ain't blind. Right in front of us was a group of 2 guys and a girl. That was one nice TV series loved it a lot. But coming back to the incident, this girl is actually spoon feeding something to her boyfriend and the other guy is probably the boyfriend's friend or something. Well, it is all cute I know, kinda lovely too. Display of public affection... I probably wouldn't do that but I wouldn't ask anyone else to not do that either. So there they are, right? Right smack in front of my vision that just wandered to the front. Like everyone else's does. And all three look back at me ,It was just one of those times for no reason everyone's vision syncronises on each other. But then their gaze wasn't a gaze anymore , it was a stare. A stare that would make me feel guilty for a crime that I did not commit. But I didn't feel guilty , I did nothing wrong. But I hated that look that they gave me.

I have only one question, if you do something in public and you expect everyone else to turn blind, that would be an outrageous expectation. I wasn't judging those three, but why would they judge me? I wasn't the one who was publicly displaying my "love" for another. I wasn't even peeping, I was sitting right there, right infront of the mall where a hundred other people are hanging around. And then this didn't happen once , it happened twice. I was taking the escalator down and there is this young couple in an eternal hug. May I emphasize that they were right in front of me. And this guy is actually facing me. And he is looking at me, as if he means to kill me. And I am the one who is supposed to try to look away rather than make sure that I step off the escalator properly. So why do I need to look away? I will tell you why....because a lot of people are hypocrites.

India is growing and westernizing in someway. We see more and more young people displaying their love in open. And these people expect others to just mind their zone of vision and they usually stare back at you as if they would eat you up . But I say its got to stop. If you think that you are quite modern and you are quite comfortable with public display of affection , you can't blame someone whose line of vision accidently moves towards you. If they believe they can do this in public and they want the public to oblige , to be more patient towards them , because they are the open minded people, then they are wrong. They are not open minded. They are displaying this act of affection out there in the open because they can't do that in their homes, in front of the family. Are they willing to do that? No. Because they are just hypocrites who use the " modern openmindedness" to their own advantage and they wouldn't dare do that in their homes.