Way too smart !

Ravi was an introvert. But he was also a genius.

He was interested in people. No he was obsessed with people.

He wanted to understand them. What made them work. Why they did things. What they liked. What they hated.

Everything.

And mostly he was interested in women

One day he was watching a movie in a movie theater. He loved going to the movies. He wanted to hear the reactions of people to different situations. To see what moved them. What they laughed at.

As he watched the movie he noticed two girls laughing. It was a love story. In the intermission he noticed the two girls talking. So as was his habit he listened in.

Girl1: What chemistry the couple share!
Girl2: Oh I studied acting and movies. I am sure a good actor can 'create' chemistry
Girl1: Nonsense! Chemistry either exists or dosint! Nobody can 'create' chemistry!
Girl2: Of course they can. All it requires is good camera work and some role playing

Ravi started to think. Can chemistry be created in real life too?

Ravi could think about nothing else for the next few days. He had to find out for himself.

Ravi decided he had to learn psychology.

He had to understand women better.

He bought every book he thought would be relevant. He studied character types. He studied behaviour. Then stimulus and reactionary behaviour. Abuse and its effect on people

He read every word of every book. Then he analysed and prepared notes

Now it was time to act

He went to acting class. He studied Stanislavsky and the method. How not to 'act'. But to 'become' the person. He studied Strasberg and improv

After 3 years of effort he was ready.

'Look out world here I come', he thought

First he made out his plan. He categorized women into seven types


1) The confident extrovert type

This type of woman loved introverted men who needed to be mothered. They had to be in control always and needed intelligent men who were unsure of themselves

2) The shy timid type

They looked for men who were aggressive and dint take no for an answer

3) The eager to please type

They wanted men who treated them badly and made them feel the way they thought they should feel. Bad about themselves

4)The pretty /dumb type - who want to prove they are smart

They needed men who told them they were sooo smart and that they had great ideas and gave them some job to do. They needed to be loved for their minds not their looks

5)The insecure type - who want a man to father them

These women lost their fathers early or their fathers paid them no attention so they just wanted an older man to father them and tell them things were going to be ok

6)The slutty type -who want the attention (usually of rich men)

This type had only one need and that was attention. They will do anything for the attention of a man who was rich. They were aggressive and were willing to do anything to get this 'rich' man

7)The holier than thou type -ones who wanted to be known as good people

These women needed men who needed them. Men who were really damaged. Men they could help and rehabilitate


Now that he had his list he went to work.

He had to learn to become the man each of these women wanted.

He would first identify each of these types of women.

Then he would become the man they wanted and get them to fall for him

Would it work?


So now the stage was set

Ravi began to execute his plan. He first began to identify the different types of women.

When he was sure he had identified the different types he went into action.

He first chose type 7 and became her ideal man.

He became an alchoholic with no job and approached Ms 'Holier than thou'.

He had of course made sure she was single.

He dint want the complications of cheating to corrupt his research

Within a week he had his result.

It was an unmitigated success!

Soon Ms 'Holier than thou' was totally in love with him.

He pretended to have a quick rehabilitation, ceased to be an alchoholic, and gave her all the credit.

She was so happy to have been so useful to somebody that he had her eating out of his hand!

Oh boy now was the hard part.

He had to move on to the next conquest.

But first he had to let go of this one

He had to do that gently too.

There was 'strategy' in that too.

First he had to become the one person Ms 'Holier than thou' would hate the most.

He knew who Ms Holier than thou would hate the most.

A rich arrogant cocky son of a bitch.

So he told her he got a huge promotion and started to talk about how great he was.

She threw him out in a week


Soon Ravi had tried all the types and could switch roles whenever he pleased

He dint even dump one before he moved on to the other.

He was enjoying this too much!

He simply said he was going to work, changed himself to the next character and went to meet the next type

He was getting carried away with his power

After two years of this charade, the first signs of trouble began to surface

He found that his sleep was getting disturbed

Ravi started to forget if he was character 4 or 2. He would go to the girls house and forget which character he was supposed to be

For no reason he would wander the streets looking at people


Ravi suddenly found that he had forgotten who he was.

In all this experimentation the man who 'knew too much' had lost himself.

Who was the real Ravi?



He began drinking

He just felt like it.

He couldint control himself.

He found another Ms 'Holier than thou' and began drinking nonstop.

She could never rehabilitate him this time


She found him dead on the street in front of her appartment one day

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This was the first story I wrote when I was in Engineering college in Bangalore. I entered a creative writing competition during an Inter collegiate contest at Bangalore. I won the first prize for this entry and fell in love with writing

Hello Uncannybal,

That's a really good story! I particularly liked the theme - trying to create several personae out of a single person! And how it didn't exactly turn out as planned...
Very innovative..

Good going,

Regards,

Sowmya

Dear Uncannybal,

A very lovely story. Studying psychology is one thing. But getting so involved that you loose your own individuality? That is insane.

For a person like Ravi an introvert who as it is cannot give vent to his feelings, this project cost him his life.

Small wonder that parents tell their kids in a sarcastic tone : Hey don't study too hard else you will end up in an Asylum.

Regards,

Corallux

hi santhosh,

A nice story though very differrent from your usual ones.. enjoyed it nevertheless....so u started out as a very serious writer...and now u are such a versatile one...good for u ...AND ...all of us at IL....

MINDI

Dear Santoshbhai,


I think this must be yr life story, having tried out all the roles, and forgetting who u are, are now becoming a writer, albeit a good one.

HAHA.Man someone must examine yr brains to find out where the hell do u get yr ideas from.Wish i had a tenth of yr talent.Great one,man.Keep writing.Regrds.kamal

That was a real good one, Santosh. Something that he wanted to try out cost him his life You can get interested in people an observe them but it has limits.
Wonderful attempt I must say. You sure rock buddy!!!!

Sometimes you fall into the pit that you have dug for others. Guess thats whats happened here.
Good one here with a moral for SOME too!!

Congratulations on your winning the prize ,Santosh , a little late though but please accept my wishes. Seeing your story dont think they had a tough time in deciding the winner!

Devika

HI Santhosh,

Belated Congrats on winning the competition.

Experimenting within limits is safer as long as you don't get too involved yourself.

Hello Santosh
Good one ...............In order to understand types of women he himself landed up on streets......what all he had to do for that,

Congrats for winning the competition,

Congratulations for winning prize. You can sell it to TV. It will make nice serial.