Sunday, August 17, 2008

Shopping and me!

People who know me well, know how much I hate shopping. And when it comes to clothes, where everything looks almost the same(except for a few absolute no-Noe's), and its important(my dear) to try a few of them before actually selecting one, it really puts me off. OK, so shopping and me have always been like enemies(I wonder if she knew it). I hate to shop.
This was the story until today. For no reason visible to me(OK ya, there are some reasons I might tell you by the end!), things were different today. I entered the show room- nothing new - I have been there many times. I came out with 3 new shirts and a pair of jeans, to my surprise. But the 'even bigger' thing was that I actually tried loads of them, a whole variety of straight-fits and boot-cuts, of checks and casuals with funny things written on them... and somehow I knew exactly what to buy and why to buy it?
Being one of the 'I need to justify everything happening around' kind, this little otherwise ordinary Saturday has actually left me puzzled. Since, I have always been able to analyse things and come to reasonably good reasons and conclusions, not being able to think about this one actually troubles me. Now I can always give in to one of the three possibilities. Firstly, it's Rakshabandhan, I am generally happy on festivals. Secondly, the music in the shop was cool. I know why these guys pay so much to get high quality music appliances installed. Thirdly, I saw a pleasant face (a girl of course) and the fact that she smiled back was so cute. She was there till the very end, girls are shopping freaks.
There's something which makes me feel that today was a 'quantum shift' day. I have changed today, though not by much, but surely by a significant amount. It has all been positive, a change for the better. It feels great to learn a new art - of shopping, another challenge thrown at me by my Friend GOD- lets see if I can actually master it in the days to come!