A true Letter

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Like u had written, days pass into weeks, weeks change into a month, and soon months have piled up one on top of the other and the email that is intended to be sent to u never gets sent. It just sits there inside my head until it gets stale. The least I could say is that I am sorry for being this way. Its not that I've forgotten u or the thought of u doesnt cross my mind every so often.

Well, I do hope and pray that ur medical studies r going fine as intended and that u, ur frens and ur family are in good spirit and sound health. I hear and read abt the events in Nepal and the choas worries me. I just hope that all of u are able to make the best of life for urselves. Aba ta kura nagareko paani katti katti bhaisakyo and I find it hard to start anywhere. In a way I feel responsible for spoiling the kind of fun-spirited frenship that we had. The guffs we'd do, the chats, the meetings, the leg-pulling .... all of them seem to be long gone, but the fond memories are still with me and shall remain to cherish my thoughts. Just thinking of them is bringing a sparkle of joy in my eyes already.

My life now seem to be a distant from what it was before back then. U study, u work, the weather is bad, n u just get bored of this monotonousness. I have finished my Sophmore year and ahile I am in my summer break. I work for the school IT department. Work is easy but dull. I am staying with a music prof. from school and his wife. Everything is so quiet and laid back. There r lush green lawns all around with trees and flowers everywhere. There r kids riding bikes and the spouses tending to their gardens. The trouble and choas of the world seems to be somewhere far far adrift. Its a good life and I just hope that people from all over the world get fortunate to experience it. Since he is a music Prof. to the core, I too have acquired a taste for listening to jazz and romantic classics (which is being played all the time). Sometimes when I tune to rock or pop music, I can sense him rebuking it ....which I find so amusing. Every once in a while, we venture into cooking some Nepali food, and the smell of garam masala and other fries masalas, sends the whole house into ruptures.

Being here has been an experience to say it in least words possible. U travel, u learn, u see monks walking around in their black robes, and attend classes like sex ethics taught by them. u r served 2 spoons of rice, get accustomed to eating salad, boiled peas, corn, beans and mashed potatoes, not to mention cold sandwitches which has become a staple food. U actually begin to enjoy baseball and football games. Having to juggle between studies, work, and personal life makes life all the more stressful. u get mad, agiatated, u feel isolated in this foreign place, a foreign culture, and different people. U long for ur old frens, and family and struggle with lolniless and at the same time make new frens and 'host families.'

It is just that in things like these u get tangles up. Days turns int weeks, weeks into months, and with a puff of the wind, the greenary and the colors of spring has melted the snow of harsh winter(-28' C).... and u have spent 2 years here and made a life.

It feels good to write to old frens, frens like u x_______. I wish u all the best for ur studies as well as personal life. My namaste to ur family and a hi to ur sis. Surely a hi to all ur frens n ur hostel ko palee dai. Take care of ur self. As we travel in the paths of our lives, I hope that I'll pass u someday.... sooner rather than later. Until then,

lots of warm regards and fond memories,


N.B. its a true letter sent by a boy to a girl not a single word has been edited only tha last x___________ as it contained the names