Turning Point!!!

Well, my brother who has the lovely job of ferrying me to and from office was working late yesterday and I had to cajole a rickshaw driver to bring me to Andheri. Normally when I travel by rickshaw the good Samaritan hidden deep (really really deep) down inside me stirs from the Rip Van Winklish sleep and makes me offer lifts to people. Accordingly yesterday I offered a lift to someone who I am on civil hi-bye terms. When I say this I mean it is a someone I've known for a long time but isn't some one I would expect to chit-chat with and definitely not someone who would share life experiences and give me straight from the heart in your face blunt advice which actually makes sense. 

Come to think of it, it really makes me believe in the age old sayings "Never judge a book by its cover", "Don't believe all you hear", "God speaks to you through others" and last but not the least as my best friend once told me "Never Assume". For never in my wildest dreams did I expect this person to be so down-to-earth and capable of carrying a sensible conversation about anything other than self. I had the most interesting half hour conversation which has given me enough food for thought. I sincerely hope that in the distant future when I look back at my life, I can single out this conversation as "the conversation that changed my life for the better!"

Cheers to life!!!

P.S.- Just noticed this is my 300th post :-p (16th September 2012)