the guy who pets puppies

You know sometimes you take a risk and do something, it was kinda like that today for me. I went for my first roadtrip and ended up making a really good friend. Alex.
When i first saw him, i wasn't exactly scared of him but yeah i was kinda intimidated by him. Well that's 'cause he's huge. And on the royale enfield, he looked gigantic. But from the moment i met him he was giving me the 'good guy vibe' so it was all good.
Now I'm gonna say some stuff which will make no sense to you. But just bear with me for a few minutes alright. So lemme tell you something about myself. I am a bibliophile....or as they say a book nerd. Basically I love reading books. And since i read books a lot, sometimes, i perceive my life as a book. My theory is that we all are part of a book. We all are characters. And today, in my book/life, i met an interesting character; he was interesting enough to force me to write about him. When I first talked to him and heard his Canadian accent, for a moment i was like ...Woah !!! Man do i like Canadian accent. It seems so cool. Then slowly i came to find out about him. He told me a lot of stuff about himself. And to be honest, i was having a lot of fun talking to him.
You know one thing i wanna tell you about, is, this one smile of his. You know how when you're a kid and you're wishing for a remote controlled car for christmas and you write a letter to Santa and you pray to god very hard for it. Then skip few days, you're in your bed, and you open your eyes, its christmas eve, you run downstairs, you go straight towards the christmas tree, you see your present, its a big box and now you can't control yourself. You start unwrapping your gift and even though its just a matter of few seconds to unwrap it, yet you can't control yourself and its finally in front of you and its a remote controlled car. You have this big smile, ear to ear. That smile. That exact smile Alex had after he took pictures. There was just a tinge of calmness and maturity added to it. I never thought that one could be so happy just by clicking pictures of cows. But here i was. Seeing joy radiating from Alex's face. And that's how i knew, that maybe he's not a professional photographer, but he is certainly a passionate photographer. And thus i knew that one day, he'd sure taste the supper of success.
He was also honest about it. At the end of the day, when he clicked his last pics of the day, he admitted that even though he is passionate about it, he think he had taken enough photographs for today. And that my friend is what i call being honest to yourself. Its very hard and its very rare to find such element in today's world. Heck, if i was in his place, i wouldn't have admitted that.
And when we were heading back to Jaipur, i started thinking, that i know that I'm not gonna forget him, but the question is,  what am i gonna remember him by?
Do I remember him as my French-Canadian friend ? Or the guy with whom i had my first roadtrip?
The guy who eats magic mushroom? Or the guy who says "this is the best chai I've ever had" each time he drinks tea ?
The guy who's super passionate about photography...or the guy who loves 'aloo ka parantha' ?
And that's when it hit my mind... I'm not gonna remember him by any of those things. I'm gonna remember him as the guy who stops his bike midway to pet puppies. The guy who gives belly rubs to the street-side dog. The guy who wanna volunteer in gujarat to help stray dogs. I love dogs. I love animals. And whoever treat dogs nicely, instantly wins a place in my heart. And so did Alex.  
So today Alex played a small yet very crucial role in my book. And maybe i did in his too.
I don't really know whether we'll meet again or not. Whether we'll make an appearance again in each other's book or not. All i know is that it was destiny and life which made us spend a day together. And if it wants, we'll probably meet again. But you know the fun part, even if we don't meet again, i will never forget him.

P.s. i think he can read your face and tell when you're sad/stressed and will say something to cheer you up. I don't know if its true or not. But if it is, i totally gave him 3648 points for that.
Au revoir mon ami🙂!