Awful Meeting

It was an awful meeting, for which I travelled from one end of the city to another. It barely lasted 10 minutes, less than the time I spent sipping tea at the reception. There was no common meeting ground. Neither of us took any effort to find it. I felt like I was being interrogated. The meeting had to end abruptly. I wouldn’t consider it as a waste of time, because I got exposed to a very different world where people like me thrive. 

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