A letter from Naina - YEH JAWAANI HAI DEEWANI!

Hi, this is Naina,
Naina talwar remember?
We met on this journey called my 'yaadon ke mithai ka dabba' of which you couldn't take just one bite!
So ya, why this letter?
Maybe because I just wanted to add one more letter to my sweet-box or maybe because I really really want to get somethings out of my heart, into yours.
How am I now? I'm really great especially on the work front, I run an amazing clinic and my mother is finally satisfied. She whines a little less although she still doesn't like 'jhalli' aditi but you know what, it doesn't matter to me now. I know then I did overreact because I was never even allowed to react, all my feelings errupted like a volcano. But now here I am, calm with not a care about what anyone says or what my own insecurities say.
Coming back to my dear bunny, once a wanderer always a wanderer. I know he did promise me that we would work it out, his travel, my clinic and our families but there was still one little hope that he would, someday stop travelling, get settled and finally I would get to spend some more time. But soon I realised if I confine that one person who showed me the way to my freedom, broke my boundaries and taught me to live, won't that be sad?
I just couldn't resist this thought and said it out loud. Bunny being bunny ridiculed it for a day. A day later, when finally he understood the criticality of the situation he came to me. It was his one month vacation (the irony is his work is actually a lifelong vacation), surprisingly he did not give his 'main udna chahta hoon naina' monologue. He agreed to what I said. I could look at the puppy sad face hidden behind his charming smile and couldn't resist smiling too. "I have loved an idiot" I said to myself "but I'm glad I did". And then as our sunday ritual we went to avi's house which is obviously next to his beautifully working bar (he did manage to work hard and quit drinking alcohol, and we're proud of him) along with aditi and taran (a super happy couple).
All I wanna say is, 5 years later somethings have changed, like I started wearing my glasses again and no one calls me a bore now because I have learned to accept myself. I still don't have a huge drawing room with kids and harry potter 20 but I have realised that I have someone who travels the world and still looks forward to come home because of me. Also, like manali we still do crazy things in mumbai and I'm glad aditi got married because along with a partner, a scaredy cat like me got best friends like avi and aditi who she could trust and always fall upon them if there was a push.
Lastly, let me thank mumbai, manali and udaipur, the places which gave me a box of memories, happiness and pure love.

(to the audience)
A character who will remain in your memories,
Naina Talwar