This was not the Bangalore I knew

“You become the place where you have lived for long”

This proverb about Bangalore does not really hold true as you don’t need to live long there for being in love with that city. Two months is what it all took for me to start liking this city. May be there were other factors too involved in me falling in love with this city, but that time I had ignored them.

After a gap of around 6 months, I came back to Bangalore, but this time from Chennai. Early in the morning, I got down from an AC bus and I was welcomed by a cold breeze blowing in the city which has given me lots of lovely memories. Shivering in the cold weather, I took an auto rickshaw to my friend’s guest house. I reached there, got under a quilt and slept again. Sleeping under a quilt in a cold weather is a feeling, which is truly heavenly. I woke up at 12 noon and straightway went to the road. Walking on the road at 12 in the afternoon, this is another privilege only few cities in India can provide and Bangalore is one of them. And it is while walking on the street that I realised something was amiss.

Strolling alone on those Richmonds, MGs and Brigades of the city, I felt I was missing something. These roads, those malls did not endear me any more. What was wrong? Why was I not happy to be in Bangalore? Then immediately it struck me Oh! Yes. I am missing the company I had last time I was in Bangalore. Those two months of my internship in Bangalore had gone by real fast and the fact is however hard I try, I would never be able to get back those two wonderful months. And now, here I was in Bangalore with a feeling that this was not the Bangalore I knew. Things have changed, people have changed and but it was taking me sometime to adjust to these changes.

Subduing all these feelings in my heart, I tried to enjoy as far as possible. Met friends, ate around, watched movies but know what I always felt a void around me. Soon came my time for departure from Bangalore and along the way I saw the bus no. 201E. A flash of memories flew past my brain and I was even more depressed and somehow wanted to leave this city as soon as possible. For the first time Bangalore disappointed me and I was happy that I was leaving for Chennai just because may be something better was waiting for me in my new work place.