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Published: 2026-11-01

# The one who got away

As it so happen I was 27 when this marriage shenanigans just started, I had accepted long back that I can't do girlfriend. There were phases into asexuality after a lot of unsuccessful attempts at it. Till 27 I have always travelled in such circles, lonely men drinking and smoking cuz there is nothing else to do except work. School went into studies since I was the topper, and then I cracked IIT there also ratio of women took a nose dive. 1 girl hostel vs 10 boys hostel says a lot. A lot of department didn't even have a girl in the whole batch. In anycase time went getting high and drunk, since college was far off from the city. 

I moved around in startup circle post college, since that's the only reasonable persuit left, cuz how else you go rich and score a girl that's being the thinking. Startup suffer the similar fate like any other top engineering college. They hire top talent and make them to work even on weekends. But it's all I could do and I did that and even started my own company which failed miserably. Again the startup I was at, at the time it was literally boys hostel and the girl in question here was working in MNC. 

It was a family rishta and I agreed to meet cuz damn she was beautiful. I had zero experience with girls but still we talked and I liked her a lot. Now couple of scene happened, right around the time when I told her I'm seriously interested in her. A friend's girlfriend committed suicide, covid started and my family somehow didn't like her family. Well this all snowballed and it led to confusions. I was seriously interested in her, I asked her to meet a couple of times and understand each other. But she started drifting away. I kept on insisting her to consider but by the time she was already talking to few other prospects as she lost the confidence. It was my first AM scene and I didn't realize the threads are that weak, that even a small miscommunication and people move on to someone else. However, this girl would have been my first and last, if I could manage it, so I did I try. I met her multiple times and did everything by book, brought her flowers, I had a bike back then took her around for tour and what not. But none of those attempts pan out. In the midway she started talking to an IPS officer and I thought this is it, I can't compete with that guy. So I decided to give her the space. Later I found out she went on bumble met a couple of people and made really good friends. One particular in that group had fallen in love with her and she told me that. And I was like girl, please, why aren't you giving us a proper shot. At this point she just wanted to paint her ego on my face that what I am losing. And it was very pathetic experience I'm not gonna lie.