
Chapter-2: The instability & life sucked
Feb 24, 2024
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The Past: Kondapur, Hyderabad.
“You got a new match!” Beeped my phone.
“It’s from the Tinder app?” I tried recollecting listening to the alert sound. Yes, it’s the dating thing! You swipe right with random people you like and if they swipe right too you get a match. Long story short Meghna my friend and my lab assistant, a person I rely on, a person who shares my mad ideas, and the only one who supports me literally in thick and thin without expectations, installed the app on my phone and created my profile. I just had it on my phone but never used it! I kept ignoring all the notifications to date, Meghna randomly checks and un-matches non-potential profiles she thinks who isn’t a good fit for me.
Life was boring and I never needed the motivation to socialize. I was working on Field Quantum Entanglement, the study of particle movements in spatial proximity, in simple terms the behavior of two or more particles is identical in similar quantum conditions. Basically, I’m trying to help particles time travel with the help of one another in a controlled environment. Okay, okay, we are drifitng away! So I opened the app and saw this girl with a beautiful smile in the first photo, the second with a weird smile with two knives containing a graphic image of a chicken, the third on a mountain top with a plush green mix of trees, plants, the fourth on her knees proposing Kishore da statue, the fifth with a glass of whiskey wearing cool neon glasses and the sixth after her sweaty Zumba session in her sky-blue hoppers and black hoodie with a ‘I’m a good bitch’ print.
Proposing Kishore da and posing violently with a chicken didn’t quite add to my cognitive sensibility, “Who is this girl?” I thought and ignored her after receiving a call from Professor Satish. I am co-authoring a paper with him on the spatial transfer of particles.
“what’s up, Tej?” Called Meghna walking into the room/ lab/ everything I’ve ever dreamt of building is in this room.
“These neutrinos don’t seem to be happy.”
“What?”
“Nothing, I got a match today on Tinder! I like her character in the pictures, the bio seems interesting.” I said smiling.