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Excerpt from Bangalore life- The “Naariyal Paani Connection”

Living in a new city far away from your home is emotionally challenging, the same happened with me when I came to Bangalore. When I came here, I badly missed my friends and my parents. Certainly I knew few people but they weren’t that close to me.

So basically after office I used to go out for long walks and to be honest the bestest observations and soul stirring experiences are felt by me when I walk!!!Now unlike Delhi (my hometown), in Bangalore there is no dearth of Tender Coconuts. In every nook and corner of the city one can find this beautiful fruit of nature filled up to the brim with nectar. I simply love it.

Near the place I stay I found one Naariyal Paani Corner. It was run and governed by one young fellow.

And because I loved it so much I made this a habit to not miss the Naariyal Paani for even a single day. This continued for seven months, seven months without fail!

Then recently I asked myself is it really the Naariyal Paani which makes me go and have the Naariyal Paani on the regular basis??And I discovered that it was this young fellow whose face gave me so much of tranquility after a tiring day at office. When we go home we always need some to wait for us, pamper us. And this guy gave me the same feeling. He always smiled at me. Always asked something or the other, neither he knew English nor Hindi properly and I didn’t understand even a bit of Kannada. But still somehow he managed to ask questions in whatever way he could and I reverted in the same manner. We came to know so much about each other where are we from where do we work, what are our names.

In this completely unknown city he seems to me as a familiar face.  And he does quite a few things for me as well apart from selling me his Naariyal Paani. I am very scared of crossing the roads and the street dogs. He makes sure that I am able to cross the road he escorts me till my place if he finds dogs hovering around.

The best thing which happened was that I was extremely upset someday after returning from office and I directly went to his roadside shop to have my soul satisfying drink. And that day after I finished the Naariyal he asked me-“Madam why are you so upset today”. And it gave me immense happiness to know that someone in this city can actually understand what I am going through without me even speaking a word. And this brought a smile on my face.

Though I have others in my place but they cannot understand what I am going through, I pretend and they can never understand that I am pretending to be happy.

This is what u call “Connection”. Sometimes you don’t need to name the relations. There is a genuine affection which prevails between the souls. This 20 year old guy is not my friend he is not my brother or anything. Sometimes just like that you feel close to someone.

So next time you think that you don’t have anyone or find yourself alone don’t worry because someone as simple as a nobody will make u feel wanted.

I got my connection and I will make sure my connection remains intact. And this is life’s nectar. Simple ,touching and soul stirring!!!!

Mani.