Looks ARE Deceptive!!

I came to know an interesting fact about myself two days back. Mohit and I attended Vikram's (a very close friend from Mohit's School) wedding in Noida with Siddharth( the third one in the special friend trio) and his wife, Ashwini. On the drive back home, Sid revealed something that I had never known about myself.

He and Vikram had very worrying thoughts for their "poor" friend, Mohit when they attended our wedding in March 2007. Both of them, I later came to know from Sid's mother, sat up that night and discussed how Mohit will be dominated by me from now. Sid confessed that they both thought that I was a very 'challu' 'punjabi' girl and Mohit's life was surely screwed now.


That was interesting and very surprising to know. The story didn't end here though. Sid told Ashwini to watch out for Mohit's challu and dominating wife when we visited them in June 2009. The poor girl said she was so scared of me when we landed at their place. But it didn't take her too long to realise that I wasn't challu and certainly not dominating. And I guess the fortnight we spent with our lovely hosts did change Sid's point of view too. He admitted as we reached his house that I surely was nice and simple and good to his 'dear' friend. BTW, the poor, dominated friend was all smiles through this conversation.

Anyhow, as Sid and Ash left the next day, I made Vikram( the partner in crime) say it out loud that I was a nice girl and a good friend. Of course, such a revelation cannot go without some praise. After all, this was the first time somebody had told me something like this about the 'first impression' I cast on people.

This got me thinking( I think I think too much!) They do say, Looks are deceptive. But are they so deceptive that a sweet, simple, nice( the list is endless so let's think of all goodie adjectives) girl like myself can be thought of as a smartass and dominating one? Well, if two men think that way, maybe that's how I look. Come to think of it, there might be other men who think like this about me!!!! There might be also a lot of boys out there who didn't get talking with me cos they had the same impression that Sid and Vikram had!!!! Hmmmmm, ain't that too many missed chances for me??????? But well, the one that matters the most did have the right first impression and didn't pass me by for the wrong reasons...Thank Heavens for that!!

There is a moral to this story, I guess which is very obvious. Let's all look below the hard crust for the softie heart...

Thanks for telling me this Sid!!