You Deserve A Better World, Mon Amie

Mon très cher amie,

I hope this letter finds you. I hope this letter finds you on a day when you haven’t smiled even once. I want you to smile today and always. I know we haven’t spent much time together, but I feel I know enough about you in the time we had. Enough to let you know that you are special.

You are the life of the party and everything you get involved in. “On books and friends, I spend my money; for stones and bricks, I haven’t any,” you quoted in one of your awesome Instagram posts featuring your collection of Ruskin Bond books. Rusty, as you prefer to call him, made your childhood colorful. You have a reading experience par excellence, are a passionate photographer, and have the superpower of finishing one book a day. From being a musicophile to a ukulele player, ‘one line a day journal writer’ to a traveler of miles, you are a polymath. One can always find you with a mixed sauce pasta in one hand and a cold coffee in the other. A lover of soups and salads, you are my friend.

When I first saw you, you looked very uncertain and confused. And now I know that you do not like to be uncertain or confused. You want everything figured out and simple. That’s what makes you unique. We live in a world where people tend to go with the flow, but you don’t. You always carry this beautiful smile, with your lips touching the corners of your eyes. That smile is capable of sweeping a lot of people off their feet. I don’t know if I have observed it right, but I feel some kind of loneliness or emptiness in you that grips your feet before you take your first step. It grips your hands and your heart. It does not let you be yourself. It does not let you live and love: fearlessly and fiercely.

You are a keeper, mon amie. But you choose not to; you do not let anyone close to you. You do not let anyone near your soul because you are afraid. I want you to know that you are one of the most confident and boldest people I have ever seen. You are fearless, but you fear failure. I want you to know that failures do not, in any way, make you any less important, but they teach you something no one can; they teach you about yourself. They remind you of your reasons to be here, on this planet and the Earth. I like listening to you. Your words are more powerful than the words themself.

I want to remind you that you will figure everything out only when it’s the right time. You will unravel mysteries, my friend, and you will take over this world with that smile. You will be happy. Do not seek something you do not have; seek what you already have. Because we tend to lose what we have with us on the journey to achieve what we want. I do not want you to do that. I want you to be happy and in love (with yourself).

I fall short of words when it comes to you. Because you, my dearest friend, are an enigma. You are what the world fears. You are ‘YOU.’ You are a mystery I have always wanted to solve but have always failed, and that makes you special, not just to me but to everyone who knows you. You are not meant for this world; you are meant for a better one. The world that knows about the hardships you have been through, the world that does not take you for granted, the world that makes you smile, and the world where no one is self-centered.

As I said, you are a keeper. You have kept pieces of me with you, and I hope you keep them safe and untouched. I hope there comes a day when you smile to the fullest, and I hope that day is today. I hope that day is every day. I hope that on that day, you will smile without anyone reminding you that you haven’t.
Words do not have the power to describe you.

With a piece of myself attached to it,

Le vôtre avec amour,

Shallu Jaglan