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‘By the way, is Alara still upset with me?’

‘Of course, she is! We must make an attempt to make things better.’
‘I think she must perform at the New Year’s.’

‘She must, but I guess she won’t be performing until she finds Elisha.
She needs closure.’
‘Everyone needs closure. Even I need one. But after so many years of her

disappearance I have come to accept the fact that she has most possibly
died. I want to believe very much that Alara finds her, but it seems almost
unbearable to carry this hope buried within me.’
Let me read this out to you from my diary. With the events that have
unfolded in the last few days, I have started penning a lot of my feelings

down:
Dear My Past Self,

I wish you knew that you will finally make it. I wish I could tell you not to
cry on sleepless nights. I wish I could tell you that you deserve every dream
that you wish to achieve.
‘What is love according to you?’ Aarav asks.

‘Love defies rules, knows no limits, and chooses to be ever-giving.’

‘What is passion according to you?’
‘Passion sets our hearts on fire and frees us like a mighty eagle.’

‘What if she decides to never come back to perform here?’
‘No matter how hard you try, some relationships will never go back to
the way they were. Acceptance is peace. If she chooses not to, I’m okay

with that.’
I roam around the world to search of you but come back home to feel you
within. We all take different journeys to reach the same destination - being
at peace with ourselves. Some meditate, some pray, I often dive and surf as
the ocean keeps calling me in my dreams and reality alike.

‘How was your Dad’s retirement party that happened last week?’

‘It was an amazing night filled with a mix of emotions. It was so
wonderful to hear him speak to a larger audience, and while everyone spoke
about retirement as the end , he spoke about it as the beginning .’
‘The beginning?’