The Maiden on The Terrace

Lockdown certainly taught most of us skills worth mentioning in our resumes. Of which one worth mentioning "Using the wiper to wipe water off the floor" Amazing skill trust me, it actually made the bathroom quite a lot safer for the next person. I had seen my best half doing so and even had heard a lot from her regarding the same. "Cleanliness and hygiene should be of first priority" I heard that twice an hour. From her! 

Now once I had mastered my skills in the bathroom my focus shifted to the balcony. "Will it not be much easier to flood the balcony with water and use the wiper rather than wiping manually with your hands." Evil genius! 

I ensured then onwards that I clean it once a day as that was the only place where I had the bare minimum contact with the outer world. 

Now right opposite to me down the street there was a house which had a decent sized terrace. And till April end the climate in Delhi was awesome. Pune and Bangalore folks would feel jealous of such a weather. Hence, evening onwards most of my time was spent in that balcony smoking, music or talking to my best half over the phone for hours. 

I noticed every time I came to the balcony a girl used to be there on the terrace opposite me. I didnt know her as I had shifted recently and moreover I was least interested (This is Honesty folks, absolute honesty!).

At times it felt awkward. "Is she stalking me?" You see what lockdown does to you, you feel that Tom Cruise is uglier than you but yes at my age I would also term is as "The advent of mid life crisis".

But later on I realised that she and her family spent most of their time on that terrace. So they have two rooms on that terrace and a family of 8. Hence privacy issues, so whoever had nothing to do spent time on that open terrace and apparently this girl had nothing to do the entire day because I saw her everytime I went out on the balcony. 

Either she was a serious stalker or to define it perfectly 'unemployed'. Yet she had the most ultimate swag in her. I saw her sport colourful salwar kameez and with appropriate make up the entire time. She was the one actually contibuting to the revenue by buying lipsticks. And trust me its hard not to notice a pale violet shade in a cool summer evening.

But she was someone who motivated me to a large extent. Amidst all this crisis, she was the one who projected positivity. She helped me figure out one thing "Whatever you do, try and draw positivity from anything within your surroundings." I don't know where she got the positivity from but I definitely received some from her. I started on a quick colour recognition course from my best half. She made me realise that Violet and Purple are two different shades of colour! 

I still don't know her name but yes in our talks we referred to her as "Teresee - The maiden on the Terrace".