Happy Birthday

Hi Agata, Ataga, Bob Moxwell or whatever people call you these days.



Happy 18th Birthday.

I will have your present ready by next week.

I have been sloppy.

I have not even made a card.

I suppose, it does not feel right making cards ans spending an eternity when I am supposed to be studying.

Like I spent an hour in Harrow Shopping Centre yesterday and I only bought one thing.

I guess I need to make a plan.


I know I said I wouldn't let myself get all stressed out by studying.

I am not.

It is just that I feel less stressed when I am studying most of the time.

So I have to study at the moment to feel calm.


You know how in Birthday cards, people tend to write stuff like

Thank you for being a great friend all through these years and for being there for me and stuff like that - ( I  have so many cards that do that. There is one from Zeinab like, 'I know this has been a bad year for you ... we've come out stronger ... and it was whole paragraphs.)

I shall not write that on the card I make. I don't feel like getting all sentimental and cheesy and telling you how much of a great best friend you have been and how I am lucky to have someone who has stayed with me through the thick and thin and that I love you so so much. I shall not write that the time I do not spend with you, I spend either missing you or reminiscing of the many great memories I have over the years. I shall not write that I feel that we make each other better and that with you, I feel lighter (metaphorically) and less conscious about stuff.

I shall not do that because I hope you already know that. No actually, I know you already know that you mean the world to me.

So yeah. (Do you see what I did there?)

I hope you do not mind the pictures.