They are a pretty odd duo. One chatters away endlessly, the other is quiet. One cannot sit (or even stand) still for more than a few seconds. The other specialises in minimal movement. One laughs endlessly, the other rations her smiles. The one thing they have in common is that they work in the same organisation. Even there, their roles are different – one is a reporter and the other is in marketing.
And oh, I forgot, they have the same name.
Well, this holy combination went charging off across half the city earlier today, getting medicine to a colleague's relative. I can imagine them – the quiet one driving, the less-than-quiet one talking at about nineteen and a half words a second. One unflappable, one anything but. One with a great sense of direction, the other who always needs to get her bearings from Dhaula Kaun.
But both willing to go out of their way to help a colleague who needed a spot of assistance. On a working day too. And I bet neither had second thoughts about what they were doing. I also bet neither thought that she was doing anything extraordinary. They are like that, you know.
At the end of it all, I am sure both were tired. Well, one of them definitely was – she sleepwalked her way through some ice-cream and was trying to sleep while standing in the Metro when I waved her goodbye (she insisted that she would get home in one piece by herself – and she did too). I wager the other one was just as tired. Although I reckon she would not show it. Nah, that's not her style. She is more likely to have just collapsed wordlessly when she got home.
Yep, an odd combination. Chalk and cheese. Writing and marketing. Calm and tempestuous. Curious and seen-it-all.
Both wonderful human beings. Both a pleasure to work – and just be - with.
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