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There was a version of me once who could walk into a room in shorts and a t-shirt, and people would still ask if there was a dress code they did not know about.
He did not need a suit to be a gentleman; he had something better, ‘Presence.’The shirt could be crumpled, the hair could be rebellious, but the grin… the grin made strangers reconsider their life plans.
This man lived like a human festival. He told jokes and made people feel they had been part of something worth remembering. He could strike up a conversation with a wall and leave it feeling more confident.
He never networked. He collected allies. Shopkeepers, bartenders, auto rickshaw drivers; everyone had a story about him. He had charm in bulk.
As far as romance was concerned, let’s just say that if he asked someone out for a walk, they would start checking whether they had enough memory on their phone for the number of selfies they were about to take. He was not the ‘tall, dark and handsome’ stereotype; he was ‘shorts, mischief, and entirely too comfortable to resist.’
But that man… is gone.
The man today is worse. In the best possible way.
He does not need to light up a room; he controls the dimmer. He is still in shorts, still in a shirt or a t-shirt, but now, there is a calm confidence that makes people lean in instead of just look. The energy is not “look at me!” anymore, it is “you will look, eventually.”
Now, conversations are not just funny, they are surgical. I can drop one line at the right time and have a table laughing so hard that they forget what we were talking about. The old me was entertainment. The current me is an experience.
The old me could make you laugh until you spilled your drink. The current me will make you laugh while making sure you don’t. That is evolution.
Women do remember the chat and the silence in between because I have learned the pauses can be more dangerous than the punchlines.
And if the old me showed up now, full of restless energy and wild ideas, I would tell him;
“Thanks for warming up the crowd. I’ll take it from here.”
Because he was fun, but I am unforgettable. He was at the weekend. I am the whole calendar.
And I am not visiting his grave. I am too busy hosting the afterparty.
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