100 Ft Away from Obscurity

I live close to 100ft road, Indira Nagar, one of the most happening place in Bangalore. It’s a place nested on both sides by pubs, restaurants, branded showrooms, chic spas, fitness centers, dental clinics, Ayurveda parlours, and so on.

Usually on weekend’s I peddle around this locality or end up in any of the water holes. Each time I go around, I see a new restaurant or a shop.

Demolition Drive at 100 ft Road, India Nagar – Raising old houses
A friend of mine was telling of how 100ft road looked like a decade back. It was more of a residential layout, with houses. He remember the scene of kids playing cricket on this road. Well, how times has changed for many lives around here. Now, all those homely residential area is gone under the hammer. In it’s place are the glass and multi-storyed buildings. Corporations and big brands has taken up with flamboyant presence.

What has all these restaurants given to you?
Well a choice of facilities to dine, drink, relax and shop. Probably, modern people like you need it. But, as forty plus guy, I’m belong to the old school. I’m still the old fart who cherishes old cane chairs, friendly smiles and warm hug. It’s not that I don’t like these transformation, it’s just that it’s so quick that I can’t figure where I should stand.

Also, a grim reality of my shrinking pool of friends. In fact my social life in Bangalore is nonexistent. So, the choice is for me to build a new connection in this town. So, here, I go to meetup with people in Bangalore.

From Obscurity to Limelight!

Lonely?

Imagine spending a weekend with no single activity to pursue…. your wife/girl friends/friends away, or they are preoccupied!

yes, this similar situation haunted me for couple of weekends and I’m now dent on finding a way to kill my isolation chamber.

Lonely in Bangalore?
So far I’ve tried out different ways to find a activity partner in this city full of strangers, but it’s not working the way I had envisaged. I traveled to off-beat country routes, I went to flea markets to hunt down souvenir, went to used book stores to buy couple of fiction titles, and went to near by club to play T.T … so on…

But in-spite of my attempt to find a real passion to unwind a fruitful weekend left we with half-hearted success. When I look back I wonder what I lacked.

The sudden emptiness caused with the departure of my wife ( on work project ) took unexpected jolt on my otherwise busy weekend activity. One thing is sure, I had no back-up activities, I depended entirely on one person to full-fill all my life’s plans.

Coming days will be a testing time on how I can reach out to similar people, lock on to do or start a lively relationship. Sure, there are lonely people like me looking out to experiment, or expand their life beyond their existing realm….

Here’s a link on how well you can start talking to a stranger….