Will come in a while. Stuck in a traffic jam.
I read that message again and again before I fed up and kept it back in my pocket and waited over there for him. I had reached the restaurant half an hour ago and he was busy attending a meeting which was scheduled suddenly.
"Sir, would you like to have something?"
"I am sorry but I am waiting for someone." This was the third time when someone had come up to me and asked about the order and every time my lines were the same. I just looked at the menu and most of them were basic ones which you can find in your daily lives but there was also some state's famous cuisine from the state.
I was busy reading the whole menu along with the price when I heard some talking of girls which were louder than any whispering which was going on around me. I looked up from my menu and my eyes went over to the girl who was having a camera bag with her.
She was beautiful and thinking if she really clicks pictures than how much more beautiful, she would be looking while taking the pictures. I was again going through the second page of the menu when their dim voices were audible to me though few of them, I couldn't understand but was able to figure out. I just heard a few sentences and then I realized that I was eavesdropping on someone whose thought was making me feel as if I am a stalker to them. I started to again focus on it but their slow murmur was becoming the main source for my distraction. I was wishing that Tanvir could come as soon as possible so that I could just stop my mind from diverting elsewhere.
I once again looked at the menu and tried to concentrate on it when I heard something which I couldn't unhear. I looked at that girl once again and couldn't believe what I had just heard.
By looking at her no one could say that she could be taking the photography so seriously that one could feel it around them. She is the one who I was looking for. Syria.
But thinking from another angel, she must be just taking her name and impressing her friend and lying to her. We can't see the depths of the person's lie. After a while Tanvir arrived.
"Aren't you very early over here?"
"I am sorry buddy. I wasn't aware that the meeting would take so much of my time."
"Now make an order." I said and passed him the menu before he started to go through and ordered his food. We were waiting for the food while my eyes kept on going on that girls table with debate in my mind whether to believe what her friend called her.
"What are you thinking?" I came out of my daze and looked at him.
"Just thinking about my new magazine."
"It will still take the first position and now drop that thing and focus over here."
"So, what was the meeting about?"
"About the new modal."
"Who?"
"Who is getting popular around the world."
"Oh Kabir Basu."
"Yeah, he has been popular all around the world and our director wants him to do some photos for our magazine."
"I had heard one of his songs. He is not a bad singer."
"That's it." I gave him a look of confusion and he was looking at me as if I said something wrong.
"Yeah, what else do I need to say?"
"What do you think about Syria?"
"She is really a talented photographer and the pictures which she takes are breathtaking." He stared at me for a few moments before he started laughing. I was confused. "What is so funny?"
"This is so you." His statement once again confused me.
"What are you saying?"
"You may haven't realized this but whenever something is related to your work, you would praise it without realizing it but when someone stands in that shoe, you just quickly say words and slide them away and this goes the same for the humans around you." That had kept my mouth silent.
"What? Cat got your tongue?" I looked at him and shook my head. "Then what is on your mind."
"Just reflecting on what you were saying."
"Was it that deep?"
"I never really heard anyone saying that to me before."
"Ah! Now I can see why this seems to be so deep to you there is another thing that you need to know about you is that, you are ambitious and that is why you always think about achieving your goals with any means and most of time there are correct but I would rather say that you should change your tactics of achieving something in another way."
"How are these two things connected?"
"Your deep passion for achieving just blinds you so much that you never really see what you are feeling and just makes you do what you feel right and that is why most of the other people might be able to see what you are unable to see or ignore. You better start to blend with the surroundings as it may be able to help you discover a side of yours which you never knew."
"Did my mother send you to talk some sense into me and ask for me to find a girl and settle down?" He shook his head.
"This is my own concern."
"You are worrying for nothing."
"You don't really have to follow your father's footsteps. You know that right?" I looked at my food and nodded.
"I know that."