To Naina, (@deepikapadukone )
“Tu right nahi hai Naina, bas mujhse bahut alag hai”, when Bunny told you this I could feel that how unique and out of the world you were that even Bunny, who had travelled around the world, felt attracted to your ‘Life at Home’ ideology. He agreed to miss out on a fancy light show to attend a great and the best sunset he could ever lay eyes on. You made him feel the void he had been carrying around of not going home after his dad’s passing away and he opened to you about it in the late night way back to the hotel.
I still remember the way you were in your academic year, the scholar, the ‘drowned into books’ student. I had been there once too, maybe not as much into the books you were but I know how it feels. I am still a student and I am still a thorough one when it comes to it, not because I am bookworm like you but I feel happy to have achieved a milestone to finish a book from page one to last.
You went on a trip by leaving a note to your mom and hoping they would not be angry from you. Well I would love to know what dreadful adventures you went through at home after you came back from the beautiful and a life changing one. I wouldn’t dare to do such a gutsy move all of a sudden.
Now getting back to the train where the group played ‘Never have I Ever’ and let me tell you that I have been through what you went through, we aren’t the adventurous ones or have done things in life, even to the extent of not drinking a beer while playing the game. I know how it felt to be left out in situations, we are what we are and we are happy with it, right? After all, it is the concept of self that matters in the end.
I am glad you grew out to be a best friend one could ask for, you fell in love but didn’t express because your path didn’t merge with him that time and he was very dedicated to his plans and so were you. And he came running to you the second time the situation presented itself. Isn’t that the happy ending we all look for? A trip and a guy changed your life. And you changed him at a wedding, you brought Kabir home.
I hope you are living a great life with Bunny and may it stay forever.
Yours sincerely
A bookworm.