A letter to you from a land faraway.

Shush the world and sit here by me for a while as I tell you things, grab a snack or better a glass for water for hydration. Tell me how you have been and how the world has treated you this year that I have been gone in a way, how you must wonder— if it aint too much for you, I would like you to write it down and wrap it up in an envelope if possible, someday you gotta give it to me in person. As I write this am on a summer break and I keep wondering about you, I somehow remember your mail and was gonna send you one but that would a chain reaction of conversations— I'd hate myself if I caused you sin and I am afraid you will mean a lot to me to ever let go, so instead here is me writing an anonymous letter. Dummy me, this note is meant to wish you a happy 23rd birthday and tell you that am glad you exist and I got a chance to know someone like you, you deserve all the peace and blessings in the world— I will pray for that and as for you, I'd like you to please go on and live your dreams, stay pure and away from sin, make your parents more proud than they are, find someone who completes you in the most beautiful way a person can. Umn, well, I just did that, ehe. Apart from that, about me— am a year older and wiser now, guess what am pursuing, it is english literature and psychology, suprisingly the syllabud changed and we had to choose two subjects and that is how this became possible. In psychology what is hitting me in my soul is about the brain, the neurons, memory: mostly the scientific parts. As for english, there was a story when I was analysing it, I was reminded of you for it is by your favourite author: lamb to slaughter by roald dahl and I'd like to recommend it to you, then there is a poem I'd love for you to read: my mistress's eyes are nothing like the sun by william shakespeare. Oh and you would not believe, I took botany as my open elective, in sem 1: balcony garden and two garden layouts were made by me, I wish I could show you and in sem 2, I made like three products: a strawberry jam that everyone made me make like thrice and was sent to my uncles and aunts, a chilli pickle that I have with all my meals and a beetroot kvass which is a plant based probiotic drink for the gut, when I officially set up my brand 'marigold preserves' I will ship freebies to you, dont ask how for nasrun minallahi wa fathun qareeb. Oh, I also missed you while I took the bus this year cause so many times I used to read your letters on a bus, on the weekends as I would mostly write then, in ramadan and on eid— cause I looked gorgeous in pink and wanted to rant, also I still listen to our songs and they just get prettier, it was a beautiful year I experienced alongside you, I will write about it someday. Also, I up until a few months used to check your feed on instagram from someone's account and your hikes and walks, your clicks and shots have never failed to amaze me, I dont do that now but I hope you continue to do that more. I will shushy now, or else I wont ever be able to, so please take care and go for life and everything, go little rockstar, go.