Unreal and Grateful

It’s been two months now. (I’ll repeat - sometimes it feels like yesterday, sometimes like years have passed.) Unreal and grateful. Not on my bingo list. ♥️

Dodo, first things first:

1. Drink water
2. Please don’t cry ever
3. I’ll always be there
4. Dodo is always right
5. Never forget rules 1, 2, 3, 4

Thank you so much. Thank you, thank you, thank you. Kind of feeling like I’m living out my own little love story right now - the good, the funny, the chirpy, the Punjabi-cum-Gujju, the dodo, the koko - all of it worth it. 🐌🦒

Hopefully starting mein daari nahi ;_;. Sorry dodo yaara, mere dodo yaar. Oops.

Jokes aside. The last 60 days have been a mix of unrealness (if that’s a word) and unconditional loveness (if that’s a word too, hahah) and insane betterhalfism - oof bhai, we are so different yet so same, how is this possible.

Thanks for being there, dodo. We have come a long way. Yes, time is rushing. Abhi toh BLR aaya tha, Lemon Tree mein mila tha. For Ahmedabad, abhi toh gaye the saath mein, same flight mein, Hyatt mein koko-dodo naamkaran kiya tha, Leela sandwich khaayi thi. Abhi toh aaya tha Mumbai for a week, aur visa - US visa mil gaya bb, ooof. Abhi toh overthink karke ro diye the (oh yeah, this is recent, last week, oops, sorry dodo yaar). But with you it’s all memories, captured and saved somewhere safe - little proof that these two months actually happened and weren’t just a dream I didn’t want to wake up from.

I couldn’t find the right words, but thanks to Leclerc - ooof, tough times never last, but tough people do. We had our hard times, and that’s a thing of the past; in hindsight it only brought us closer. But now, let’s enjoy together, let’s chirp together, let’s travel together, let’s kisi ki aisi taisi together, let’s have dinners (aur soon breakfast and dinner) together, haha. Yes, I’m gonna miss you, but that’s a 3rd month message. Aaj ki chat ka mahol hai gratitude, gratefulness, aur gand laag gi - saala driver, abhi bus mein baithe baithe bhi yaad aa gaya ekdum se woh.

Please chirping karte rehna. I’ll always always be there for you. You’ll always be my 11:11. We will solve for everything. Dodo, I don’t know how to say this, but what we have - I never thought we’d ever have this. You were and always will be my special one, my better half, my soulmate (oof, thoda cringe). I’m grateful you exist. You always have my back, in every version of me you’ve seen these two months (good or bad, oops) - kuch ick, additional, but nahi hota, I agree bakwaas concepts. This is just the beginning, dodo.

Happy 2 Month Anniversary, Dodo. Here’s to daari-less starts, cried-out overthinking nights, roti made with love, and every small ‘landed safe’ text in between. Here’s to us. 🤍

— Koko