15 minutes

My colleagues wonder when I say I love being alone.Frankly I wouldn't have been surprised had someone told me the same but given the fact that I am a cheerful girl, I feel these people are justified in their exclamations.College life provides ample of scope to be a loner.But job doesn't guarantee you this luxury.I am a victim to this.24 hours simply fly!Weekends make me really busy- sleeping being my trade for the 45 odd hours which I have been spending at the office.Evenings are dedicated to the web.The only time which I have to myself is the 15 minutes when I come back from office in the Volvo.

I love this "15 minutes".It is when I think of everyone whom I have been missing badly. It is when I think of how the day was. It is when I think of how I will be spending the evening. It is when I smile to myself thinking of the strange ways of the heart.It is then when I decide what should be the Gtalk status for the day.It is when I think how good CET days were.It is these 15 minutes which make me realize how beautiful the evening was and how nice Bangalore has been.It is then and there when I wonder how lonely I am at times without my college friends and my family.These 15 minutes bring back to me the memoirs of the past 24 years and in the most lovely manner.

And every single day I pray to God that I should not meet anyone on my way back home lest I lose the 15 minutes I love the most.I love the world I tread into in these few minutes.Every day I think I should stop being busy "virtually" and spend more time being this way.But one thought holds me back the moment I step out of the bus - "15 minutes cannot be the same again".I smile to myself.