4. The first time

The first time when I saw her was in a Salsa class in Lucknow. I joined the Salsa class because I didn't want to waste my time learning some computer language. I was doing my engineering from computer science but my interest in computer science was only limited to watching movies on my laptop and surfing internet. Everything went over my head during the last three last years of engineering.

In the first year I was enthusiastic and wanted to make college life the best years of my life. That never happened. I got good marks in all subjects in both semesters of first year. The reason behind it was that I was way more intelligent for the college I was in and batch of kids I got. Everything they were teaching there I had already learned it during my engineering preparations, probably that's the reason I never ugot selected in IITs. I studied way too much but the things that were relevant to entrance exams.

Getting frustrated I decided to join Salsa classes as any guy in my condition would do. Knowing that I will get some job as I used to think of myself as the coolest stud of the college, which unfortunately I was not, I wasn't too keen on utilizing my time in learning new computer languages, I was comfortable with English, Hinsi and little bit of French that I knew at that time. To me Dance was more important, at that time. Though a group of my friends were going to some computer class to learn ASP.NET. I too wanted to join the classes as many people I knew and was friends with were joining it but I didn't because the girl I had fallen in love before which later ended in bad taste between us had also joined it. At that time I was more concerned for her getting uncomfortable in my presence then me progressing my life that I decided to not join it.

How much do we love to sacrifice in love and feel great about ourselves only to realize later that it was simply idiotic. Through out my life I had this stupid notion that if you are Akshay Kumar of Dhadkan or Shahrukh Khan Khan of DDLJ, you will get any girl you want. I didn't. There are times in my life when i had scarcity of girls in my life. I would browse my contact list from up to down to find one girl I wanted to talk to, or could talk to and who would to me. There was none.

Anyways that girl from coaching is now happily married and my best wishes are always with her. Coming back to the Salsa girl. The girl I have missed more than anything in my life.

I don't remember whether i have mentioned her name or not. But I don't want her to get irritated seeing her name her and for reasons most writers conceal name of original characters, lets call her Shambhavi. Shambhavi Mishra.

Coming back ...

I didn't join the salsa classes alone. A friend of my elder brother who was studying in IIM-Lucknow became my partner in crime. He we gelled together as he was totally not interested in studying anything which are out of course and i was like that myself.

He was a fan of fountainhead and i had only recently read the book so I was vainly trying to become  Howard Roark. Looking back i wonder how stupid i was. I grew my beard and would talk only in minimal words and would remain serious all the time.

Sometimes I wonder how many people have been ruined by Howard Roark. We both were rebel in our own terms. We were rebels who had nothing to rebel against. We joined dance class so that we can learns something extra in life but later we realized that we were insult to dancing. I, however am  a good dancer but i never got the right platform and teacher. So we decided to do what we were best at. Make fun of it.

Salsa is not an easy dance and it also requires a lot of hip movement. If you are standing in the back doing salsa then you will be privileged to watch buttocks of girls and woman standing in front of you. I have noticed that fat woman sweat more than beautiful woman. for some pervert reasons, the sweat on beautiful girls look tasty except you can't taste it, coz it's sweat you know. Men are pervert deep down in nature. Al pervert thoughts in my articles are all validated and confirmed by many people so don't think that i am the only male perverted guy.  

Joining the salsa class changed my life. From a guy who was doing nothing in life, I became a guy who was doing salsa from 5 to 7. Didn't change much much as Seinfeld said, we all like to say Salsa that's why Salsa is flourishing in all countries. I would tell almost everyone that we were doing Salsa. The worst part of learning Salsa there was that we were late entrants and so all the dancing partners were already made. Left were we two. The dancing instructor, Bhupendra made two of us partner. The hopes of dancing with a woman were shattered in that single moment. We lost the motivation to attend the class anymore.  The fun was now becoming a burden. After a while, when you have invested money you want to have a girl as dancing partner. I had few girls in my mind who i was wishing secretly would become my dancing partners but they never did. I always had to dance with this obese rotund friend of my brothers who have become a good friend of mine, with elder boundaries intact.

From everyday to alternate days and from alternate days to occasional visits. Our dancing enthusiasm was breaking day by day. Until one day I saw her....