Sane to Insane

Have you seen the trees change their colour through the seasons? The leaves which were a lush green suddenly become a melange of red, brown and yellow hues. It is beyond belief that they could change so drastically and one wonders at Nature. If you are nodding to this, then you can understand when I describe how guys change beyond imagination over a trivial matter as love. Trivial to others, that is.I narrate the changes that I've witnessed among my pals, and even then not all of them. Only a small subset. I've seen people developing altogether different personalities, much like the leaves through the seasons.

1. The dude would have been a loud talker on the phone. He would never mind swearing at some friend for all to hear. But you will find suddenly him whispering to certain calls selective while remaining his usual booming self for others. It's a 110 % certainty that the guy is in love.

2. As a gang we would have seen all movies till now. But if our bub suddenly says that he cannot come as he has already made plans to "just give company" to someone else, all you can do is praise Cupid's aim which results deserting friends for some new found "company". Ofcourse all while blotting the blood from your ears.

3. Our dandy would have worn decent shirts till now. Suddenly he would be sporting bizarre styles not in sync with his usual nature. Not only none of the other guys would know when he makes the purchases, but the new-shirt-wearing frequency would also zoom up. Trust the card companies to dream up for their sales, of some-day or the other which would result in increase in business for funky clothes, trinkets, flowers and many other useless items.

4. The gentleman who has never hid his passwords from his friends for various accounts would suddenly change his passwords and keep it real secure. If any friend of his with tenacity manages to crack the password, he can very easily see where it has been derived from, usually a girl's name and her birthdate.

5. Our romeo who till now was a fan of all noise that goes for music and hip shaking (Shakira! Hint, hint!! Hips don't lie!) that goes for dance will be suddenly crooning his version (ghastly) of "Nothing else matters". Or he'll choose some melody in his mother tongue and proceed to murder it.

6.Our chap's mobile will become an attachment to his arm. Either he'll be talking on it or checking for sms. Pretending to listen to all the talk going around, he would be furiously punching out smses. And he'd single-handedly (the other hand will be clutching his mobile) aggressively fend off even two guys trying to grab his mobile and read the sms (No exaggeration, believe me).

7. The macho-guy for whom wishing his mother on her birthday is a sissy thing will suddenly begin a countdown for somebody's (Not for him, that somebody) birthday one month before.

I can go on and on. Infact points that I have observed rush at me faster than I can type. But I need my friends to be my friends. So I stop here.If you had observed the same things happening with your friends at one time or the other, go check-check-check! Additions to these pointers are always welcome!

And I've also seen the cure for such MPD. Marriage!