"The Stranger's Phobia"

The faces in the crowd which we daily come across, some known, some resembling known faces and others totally peculiar. Even If I know someone, they behave as strangers. Have you ever come across a situation when you need to meet someone and you feel nervous and your stomach starts aching…hehehee..This feeling is natural when we were kids and many used to say before the exams they used to have such a feeling…For me this feeling comes when I go to a new place or have to meet new people. My face is too transparent to resemble my expressions and feelings, no matter how much I try hiding them; they are but obvious on my face. One such evening it was late at night, 10.45 p.m or so, standing at the bus stop , waiting for my 522-Marol Agar bus, I saw that there was no bus coming. It suddenly started to rain in a short while and suddenly the size of the rain drops started increasing and the drops turned into shower. The shower increased the fear of not getting a bus, the number of strangers started increasing on the stop and the smile on the face vanished. I prayed to God, please send a bus so that I could reach home and had decided whichever bus comes, I will go. Suddenly I saw a bus which read 500-Vikroli Agar, I did not even think once and rode the bus that wherever it takes me, it will atleast drop me till Vikroli..With no second thoughts in mind, I asked the bus conductor that which was the nearest station to Bhandup, and to my surprise he said-Bhandup Police Station. As I took the ticket, tears started to roll off my eyes and I felt –God Is Great!! Today while sitting at M4, waiting for someone, I have the same feeling. All strange faces moving right to left and I am waiting , and as usual my transparent face is telling all the stories…hehehe…The canteen was full of such faces , the floor on which I am sitting everything..One to all except 4r One. Sometimes I miss Tutu during such situations coz she will always say –Deep Breathing Rekha and all the “Strangers Phobia” vanishes to some extent. I usually imagine that does every one has this kind of felling or its me who experiences this when in such situations!! If people do, how are such situation tackled and his stranger’s phobia taken care of?? Is it really difficult to avoid such situations?