Matched...

In the last few months, I have wanted a set of silver bangles that did not belong together… and I’ve been to so many silver shops, hoping I’ll find them…but nope…I’m always told that they come in a set that looks exactly like each other…and I’ve found such pretty ones but they always come with 5 others that I don’t care about… I’d kinda given up…and then this morning I found myself wanting them again…and I never crave for stuff like this… it’s usual just purchases on impulse…a pair of exquisite earrings that I like at first glance….or bangles that cost 10 rupees but can still make me smile…
So anyway I walk into this silver shop in colaba and look ruefully at the silver bangles and look at the man behind the counter and sigh…’why do these always come in sets’…and he tells me that he has a box full of ‘left over’ bangles…bangles that strayed from their set…odd bangles with no partners…bangles that had no other matches…bangles that sat in a box cos no one wanted a single bangle…
Wow…I had found them… I spent a happy half an hour looking for the right odd ones…and I spent a mini fortune…but I walked out with a wrist full of bangles that now belonged to a set…and I love each of them cos they are so different from the others… and I guess I kinda felt like I know how it feels to be a part of no set…I know that mismatched feeling… and its always good to find that there are other mismatched people you can simply ‘be’ with…