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It was a Sunday evening in late October, I was stuck in college with my friends preparing our robot for the annual tech event in our college. There was a big room provided for all the contestants to prepare for their projects. The room was loud, equipment everywhere, people huddled up in their groups, tech talks from one table to the next.
I left my table and my group to go outside for some air and also to check on some work being done, and when i was on my way back inside, there was this tall, albeit skinny, baby faced, curly haired guy standing near the doorway. I would be lying if i said he had never caught my eye before this. He was on his phone, engrossed too. I passed by him and sneaked a peek, and to my surprise, a Premier League game was playing on his phone, Liverpool vs another team. Me, being a football fan too, stopped and asked if I could join him and watch too. And he said yes, of course!
This incident snowballed a lot of things which I would’ve never thought that that simple conversation would lead to. It was the first of many.
And to this day, I still wonder how I got the nerve to talk to him. What made me stop there? What if there was no game that day? Would we still have met? Was it fate?