We are like that only

The local mess serves us some delicious morning breakfast with well laid out pooris, 'doshas'(that's how they pronounce dosas. See I just picked up on how weird someone else's pronunciation sounds. We are like that only. We always pick up on where others faulted or looked funny. Strange no?

So, here I and Sai, another wonderful friend of mine were having our breakfast, when a suspicious looking man too came down to our table and ordered for his breakfast.

I didnt quite like someone sitting next to us, but that place didn't have much place either. He didn't bother us all that much and we continued in our conversation.

I remember we were discussing about our work and then sharing stories and anecdotes, when Sai happened to ask me about my native place.

I told him about my native place and described its beauty. The filter kapi(coffee) shops, the great temples, the local traditions, the beaches, the food , the people, i went on and on.

I told him about Udupi and why i keep singing 'Krishnaa nee begane baaro', and while I was doing that, the man suddenly declared he is also from Manipal, a village and an education hub very close to Udupi.

Suddenly this weird looking stranger looked like my own fella. His weirdness disappeared, his mannerisms neglected and he became namma urru janaroo (my own village person). Although we exchanged very few words, and bade good bye. 

Looking back, i feel how quickly we make judgement and base our opinions and fail to realize how shallow we are becoming in the fast paced MTV Facebooked world.

We chat for long online, but fail to pick up fone and say 'Hi'. We need to be 'maskaoed' by our best friends, but would be on our toes to network with unknown blips. 

We are getting tokkalu each day and place tokkalu things on priority and screw stuff.

We are weird tokka fellas! no?