stranger who was not one..

May be the song 'strangers in the night' from frank sinatra i heard has turned out to be my muse in writing this …don't know for sure…what happened was that my dear friend with whom i was sharing the flat and has been my pal since engineering days ... has now shifted to Delhi…i was coping up with that loss of camaraderie and now I had to occupy myself with reading, workout, movies, cooking etc,....it was one friday evening when …i was vacillating between the idea of going to gym or swim...weighing my options … one leaves u sweaty, smelly, tired, heated up but with stronger sense of achievement as far as burning calories and muscle workout are concerned…. the other leaving u cold, shivering but fresh and active ….and finally I decided on gym... and I went on with my usual workout program.. ..it was 8 :00 PM when a girl came there… …I thought she was a new joiner…. it's strange...you could be in a room full of strangers...sometimes a crowd that you've just walked into........for some strange reason...you seem to get drawn to somebody....you don't know their name….what they do for a living...and even with zero insight into their character...there seems to be something that draws you towards them.... she passed a lovely smile towards me…I reciprocated hesitantly…with a faint one.
Vaise,… most often, this strange encounter...remains just ...a strange encounter...very few times do we tend to act on it....very rarely do we muster up the courage to actually go across, past a faint smile...or even give out any kind of signal to convey a certain amount of mutual admiration... in fact annoyingly enough...we fail ourselves in those moments...and while what we really want to do is make eye contact....instead our eyes look away each time we sense our look is being reciprocated...and the worst part....for some reason...we try and make our act of noticing so discreet...that it almost blocks an introduction!
I wondered afterwards, why ...when two people know for sure...that there is a certain magnetic energy that pulled them....do they not act on it... so there I was...still doing my workout and chatting with trainer in between, noticing this somebody from time to time....and then call it fate, call it the lack of initiative…. or just nature's way of creating some mystery...the person I have been occupied with somewhere in my mind seem to have disappeared.
I stopped looking seamlessly...my search becomes more evident....and when I was convinced the girl has left....i cursed myself for not even smiling once and looking away when we did have a slight exchange of glances...and just when I was beginning to feel a sense of loss...that familiar face looked at me...with a smile from the most unlikely corner of the room working with the machine which is rarely used....knowing clearly well...if I was looking for her so intently...there must be a connection....like strangers in the night?..bored ?.. if not will wait for ur reply!!
and to clarify i dont know where the girl went after tht .....
cudnt find her on any day after tht :-(