It was a pleasantly warm spring evening. He was sitting on a park bench, all by himself, contemplating life, wrestling with the big questions of life - trying to find his way both in personal as well in professional sphere. He had been well-educated, even found success in his professional but never really found out the answers to the most important questions that kept him awake at nights, the same questions that occupy his mind on lazy Sunday afternoons.
And now here he is, on crossroads in his life, sitting on this park bench, with a lovely fountain in front of him. He's enjoying the view as two woman walk by him - one of them catches his eye in particular and for a moment he felt like all his existential troubles vanished! The lovely view of the fountain was replaced by an even lovelier one with this girl, impeccably dressed in an elegant black dress with black slacks. He always had a weakness for black and for slacks and she seemed a godsend to cheer him up in his gloomy mood.

"A thing of beauty is joy forever", he thought as he saw her and felt immediately intrigued. He wanted to get up and talk to her and tell her that but he didn't have the nerve! He was crippled by his fear - he wasn't exactly sure what it was he was afraid of, but he couldn't think of going to this gorgeous woman and asking her out. It's not that he had never tried; he had but it never quite went his way - at once all the recollections of the past trials went through his mind and crippled him and he slowly saw the two girls walking awa