Life, as it goes.

"The best part about having girlfriends is that they understand your need for chocolate." T quipped in the manner of imparting a life changing gyan to R.

To put this into context, R is my hone wale woh and T is a friend I have recently made at office. This statement was made when T and another of our friend A had come to my place and had brought a huge bar of Dairy Milk with them as a gift. R doesn't get it, not many men do as to why women swoon and salivate at the mere mention of the C word.

"I say, Chocolate sauce and strawberries is probably better than sex." says A, the unattached one with all her wisdom and not so relevant but a bit of experience. R raises his eyebrows and looks at me with an expression of "What blasphemy?" He is not so used to Mumbai girls yet.

I have never had many girlfriends. Most of my lasting friends are guys. I don't know why this has happened maybe it is because I prefer the fight-it-out-if-you-have-a-problem-with-me instead of the connive-behind-my-back-but-still-call-me-a-best-friend attitude.

But its not that I had never had girlfriends, most of my them have been place specific or situation specific, like my dance class friends or my college friends. Sadly, out of them very few have survived the days and distance that have now separated us.

Since I came to Mumbai, I haven't had any girlfriends, Nish is there of course and then Raina, but still Nish isn't a girl and Raina and I are too different to be that close. So I went on without the comfort of my kind, missing the giggling sessions, the gossiping and the bitching etc. typical to women which I used to engage in and enjoy Ahmedabad.

Now that T and A have come into my office, things are very different, a slight twitch of the eyebrows indicates the onslaught of the period pains and a combiflam appears with a glass of water. A small change in tone points out the fight with the man and an understanding hug turns this little less gloomy. An almost invisible sign shows a good-looking guy just passing by and a collective spurt of giggles.

There is comfort in girlfriends and their understanding of things from the tiniest and seemingly insignificant to the most profound, sometimes much more profound than just the need for chocolate.

What??? Typical to men you think women don't think of profound things? Well you are wrong, we think of lots of profound things? You ask me what we think of??? Now now, you think I will let you in on the secret, thats our USP re. The reason why men spend their lives saying, "Will I ever understand her?" Do you think I will be the traitor to my kind by telling you that? Keep guessing while the women around you exchange a look of understanding, keep guessing ...

// posted by Priyangini @ 6:51 PM