The Chair at the Counter is Taken

The evening at the pub : One lady sitting at the counter, alone. She is smiling looking at the screen of her mobile phone, seems busy in texting with someone. The next moment she puts aside her mobile phone and sips her drink. She picks up the fork and the spoon and gently manages to make small slices of the chicken. Her red colour handbag is kept on the table and a huge shopping bag is kept on the floor beside her long chair. She apparently is looking laid back and totally enjoying her own company. She is going smooth with her own company.  Lady 2 : A pillar, a narrow stylish table, a chair and all of them positioned slightly at the corner of pub. The attendant (I like to call stewards as attendants because they take care of our needs at such places) is all smile for her. She is carrying a huge office bag and her make up is little faded hinting that she has come to the pub post office. She orders her drinks, which are being served one by one. She is also looks quite happy with herself. Pretty she is. Then why sitting alone over her drinks ? Perhaps she too is at ease with her own company. Table 3: Silver hair, bulging belly, wearing some comfortable cloths. This man is deffinitely looking fresher than the two other ladies. But he is also alone! He has been alloted a long chair at the counter but at the other end from the lady. The guy appears to be cool and ordered 2 vodka at one go. At ease with himself? Perhaps. Do you think these three are different ? Exclusive kind? No. To cater with the rush of sich lone dates the pubs are rearranging more and more single long chairs or some corners. If you enter there and tell the attendant that you are not joing any group there and not even expecting anybody they will automatically take you to the chair of your comfort. They somehow understood that this guest is here by choice. They want to enjoy and date themselves so they are here. Like the counter lady confessed - "I have come here alone and by choice. It is not that I do not have friends to accompany me. But I wanted to sit alone and spend sometime with me. I wanted to enjoy my drink alone. If someone is going to judge me for that, believe me I care a damn." They say internet has interfered in human relations making people lonely. Is it? These peoplr are definitely not lonely people. Had they been lonely they could have gone to any place on earth but for choosing a fancy pub with good music. If you onserve them you will find out none of there bothered if they are being checked out or not.  I would like to say that people are maturing. They are realising the value of themselves. Now they, atleast few of them know that there is no harm to treat yourself. There is no harm to invest and love ownself. May be they are making a distance from being judged to being ownself,apologetically. But it is truly a delight to see such 'single' people around who are at ease with themselves. Atleast they are giving it a shot. Cheers to such spirits. Thumb up.