Bon Voyage: Good tidings for a friend.

At this point in time, you will be reading this and wondering why on earth I would let you open this at the very instant you travel to where you’re heading. You want to know why!? First, I wouldn’t be really the Kevin you know if I haven’t done this, exotically exquisite endeavor, Second, at least at one wish my presence would be there by your side feeling the sense that I am going to Australia with you as if chatting to you nonchalantly as we cross borders and time zones, and Third, I just love the drama of you opening this and maybe imagining by now how sob-worthy can this letter be.

All the way, enjoy!

“But that's the glory of foreign travel, as far as I am concerned. I don't want to know what people are talking about. I can't think of anything that excites a greater sense of childlike wonder than to be in a country where you are ignorant of almost everything. Suddenly you are five years old again. You can't read anything, you have only the most rudimentary sense of how things work, and you can't even reliably cross a street without endangering your life. Your whole existence becomes a series of interesting guesses.” 
― Bill Bryson, Neither Here Nor There: Travels in Europe

Life is like a book; every chapter is a new journey and for every page we read through is a continuous thought of the entire story that has yet to unfold. In reality, we all are travelers, waking up everyday to start a new voyage, traversing the very deeps of challenges and gaining experiences from mistakes. Our ancestors as we all know are travelers themselves, what would we be if aren’t for them surviving the ice age but I am not here nor this letter was made to bore you with some paleo-archaelogic grammar history?!  Was it!?

This is a letter from me to you, of friends between friends and people of who dearly acquainted with just meekly wishing a dear one to celebrate good tidings as one travels.

And so here goes,

I thank you for all the times we can just sit randomly alone, remember that time in sophie college days when we were all by ourselves at the amphitheatre behind the eng’g building!? It all started there, at that point I found a confidant, whom I can talk my views about our own group of mixed company without feeling ostracized of my opinions may it be to adhere or against them. I found a friend I trust and yes, at that point and the years next I trusted you more than anyone else in our group.

I am happy to have met you and couldn’t be gladder that we shared so much and even sharing a part of your life. I could be honest now, have I felt intimidated by you when we actually started conversing and even at times at work not because I was insecure but your intense show of devotion and passion for life is indescribable (yes, I might be exaggerating my compliments just let it be for it is of rare occasions). You showed no scrutiny of kindness and for some similar personality we share, we both are martyrs on group works especially at school. It is a given fact of blasé leadership to carry on no matter what even if it hurts just for the team.

You are for many is an inspiration, you made me understand how it is to become a sibling as I considered you a sister, I thought I had and seeing the sibling of my own to you. You taught me unintentionally of family, good friends and people maybe not of same bloodline to understand me.

I was telling myself to write a longer note but it hit on me that I need not make many more inexpressible conjunctions but just go simple as the way this letter talks of a simple person, an esteemed colleague and friend dear to me.

But there are just things I need say,

One, don’t forget to instagram. I know, I am not asking you to have it done the moment you get there and it may take you ages to do it but that one request fulfilled will surely be a happy curve written on my face.

Two, life befalls us true dwellings of challenges and I wish you my best of good luck.

Three, in years to past and many will that my friendship with you will never change as the tides recede and heightened at sea shall my own company of you remains still.

And maybe just so lastly, bon voyage for a good travel of changing pavements, wishes for trials that come, gratitude for blessing that shower and smiles for new companions made, after all you have and will always be that cheerful sweet friend dear to me.

And when troubled as endearing as your faith from dear Almighty, look up when you are down, sit and be still, lay on in darkness ‘coz his light of hope will shine within you to give you peace on this long journey.

Yours,

Kevin.