Can one really live without Internet today? She wondered contemplating her thoughts.
Especially a blogger like her who’d spread the wings wide in the sky and experience freedom. For her, It was totally impossible to live without her Internet connection.
Internet connects people, heart to heart and soul to soul, two different people from two different world. So she believed.
As she flipped through the colourful pages of the magazine, she came across the Vodafone ad: The Internet is fun on Vodafone. And the first thing she did was to switch on her laptop to visit www.vodafone.in/fun to know more about it. And she knew this way she can use Internet on-the-go, no matter where she is, with the largest mobile coverage network.
But there was so much more than she had thought about it.
And her eyes popped with surprise and excitement. When she read:
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Internet for her was a way to connect with her friends, watch videos shared by others, play games online, experience exciting new apps, or get to know someone from the other side of the world.
With the Internet so handy, she knew there was so little space between them which eventually helped them realize, what was inevitable.
Internet on mobile, one of the reason that made them realize that they are meant to be together.
A world beyond, was waiting for her when she met him, an instant message popped on her desktop.Thus their small talk began with ASL, with no intention of merging their real world.
His realistic approach enchanted her, while her hopeless romanticism amazed him. They had their own world, where eyes did not look nor did faith believed.
pratik_1987: It's already 12:45, are you not sleepy yet?
prunz_eye: No, I have a presentation tomorrow,I am unprepared.
I have no idea,what I am going to do!
pratik_1987: cool.Take a deep breath,log out and sleep.
wake up early and go through once more.
I hope this helps.
prunz_eye: Seems better,I dnt lets see.
Goodnight,Sleep sweet.
pratik_1987: you too.
One thing always left her confused, He never had used 'Bye' even once,since they've met.There were no conditions, no bars. They didn’t have anything common other than zest for living, with which they could chat for hours. They were everywhere, for each other making spaces for each other, in eachother’s lives.
On Facebook,Gtalk,Yahoo messenger, they were together where they could be.
pratik@gmail.com: Do you dream about your life after 10 years?
pranali@gmail.com: ahmm..Yess! I have already planned everything.
pratik@gmail.com: Great.
pranali@gmail.com: Prats,Tell me.
pratik@gmail.com: What?
pranali@gmail.com: You know what I am talking about.
pratik@gmail.com: Well,I just got dumped!
pranali@gmail.com: Aww Poor baby.
I need to talk! Get your head set,asap.
They knew each other so well, they could even read each other through the words, they expressed. Their Friendship was boundless and vast as the sky. Once they promised and agreed on her condition that they’d never meet in person. They wanted their Fate to unite them, if it was meant to be. But there was something else hiding beneath their virtual Friendship.
Pranali Kadam
believes in Serendipity.<3
via mobile
Soon,she updated her Facebook status from her cell phone that night, when they both agreed never to meet.
She remembered their chat on Yahoo messenger, where they discussed about their dreams and hopes. As a loner, most of her dreams and hopes were only shared with him.
pratik_1987: I want meet you, just once to see myself to believe you.
prunz_eye: I don’t know what to say, let leave it to Fate. Lets bump into each other someday and realise few hours or days later, That we actually met and did not realise :-P
pratik_1987: I can spot you out from 10 million’s crowd.
prunz_eye: Really?
pratik_1987: You’ll know.
That December night, He sat down to read all her blog posts, he wanted to know her more than he knew himself.
As he read,
There is a girl with an eternal soul.
who smiles with the dawn
with dreams twinkling in her eyes
who talks in her sleep and dreams with open eyes
who smiles with hopes gleaming in her eyes
who wish upon shooting stars
who dreams about you..
He felt something inside him, wanting to let out, Something that would change their life forever.
Maybe,Just maybe I am in love with her #Iamconfused
via mobile
He sighed as he tweeted, in the hope that she’d read and would ask about it.
He was far away from his imagination, in the real world. He could not gather his courage,that night to tell her that he loved her.
“This would probably be the last chat I’d have with her, She has her life and I don’t think I have a right to involve in her personal affairs” thought Pratik as he signed into Yahoo messenger. She was there, waiting for him. He returned to his hometown after 5 years, They now lived in same city.
prunz_eye: Welcome!!
I was waiting for you,I am on cellphone.
I am so happy..You are finally here
I cannot believe.
pratik_1987: >:D<
I need to talk to you, right now!
Cellphone number?
prunz_eye: 9819******
pratik_1987: Vodafone?
prunz_eye: Yeah.I’m in middle of something,I’ll talk to you later.
prunz_eye has signed out.
He could not sleep that night. And so did she, next morning she had to meet her friend who'd help her publish her book. It was 9.30 am, He moved out of bed and groomed himself. All this time, there was this girl on his mind.
Time: 11. Am.
She stopped by the lake, dropped a coin into it and wished something with her closed eyes. She reached the venue by 11.15, she sat by the glass window to see the world go by. Her gaze flew all over the place and stopped on a similar looking face, a face she never saw before yet that was trapped into her memory. And his eyes lifted, and met hers. He was there waiting for his old friends from school.
She passed his mind, when their gaze met. He blank texted her, but she ignored.
Something inside him knew, It’s her. He walked by her table standing beside the see through glass. She was so absorbed in herself that she hardly noticed any movements around her.
*beep*
I do believe in Serendipity too!
Her cheeks turned pink as she read her received text.
“Maybe I am not courageous enough to confess what you mean to me. But it is you, who would light up my world, when dark. And this surely makes me brave enough to ask you to spend your whole life with me figuring out why fate would want”. Geez! This won’t work. He warned himself.
He turned around and stood in front of her, Like I said, I can spot you out from 10 million's crowd. Miss prunz undercore eye at yahoo dot com.
Her eyes lit up with surprise, Pratik! It’s you?
That was the first date.It was Serendipity,she believed.
P.S. This post is an part of Indiblogger contest Internet is Fun on Vodafone ,in association with Vodafone.
The names and email identities used in this post are fictitious,and should not be used.
