Hi Mummy, How are you? I have been meaning to write to you for quite some time now but I finally had the chance. The reason I got so caught up was because I got a job in California! I am so fortunate to have found this job and the company is also great. I am really liking the work and I want to thank you so much for blessing me with such an amazing opportunity. I am basically doing my dream job and I am so lucky to be here. There are always trade-offs in life though and I am paying a high price to be out here because taking this job meant living very far from home. California is almost 6 hours in flight from Canada and I am going to be here for 7 more months. So yes, I really miss aai, baba and maithily! It feels so fantastic to have this dream job but being away from family is really tough. I try not to think of how far I am and I am trying to take advantage of my time here. I am living with an indian family and they are very nice so thank you for making sure I found I good place to live. Its another sign that you are always looking over me! Anyway, I also started training for Badminton again and I am practicing 4 times a week. It feels so good to practice again but it is very painful because I have not done it in a while. But, the pain feels so good because I am getting stronger again. The feeling I get when I play Badminton is so amazing and unique... I never want to lose that feeling and thank you for making me able to still continue playing! Other than work and badminton, I am also doing an online course so that takes up time as well. But, I try to finish that homework as quickly as I can because there is so much to see and do in California! It is so beautiful here, mummy! The beaches, the mountains, the trees, the sunsets, the weather... I have definitely fallen in love with this place! Baba was here last month too and we went to so many scenic places. I felt so blessed to have the chance to see and experience all of the natures beauty! I take every chance I get to go see the sunset or look up at the night sky filled with stars. When I see these things I get this overwhelming feeling of gratitude and I wonder how I am so lucky to have the chance to live such an incredible life... and then I realize that it is because of yours and everyones blessings that I have reached here and I will never forget that! So thank you for always blessing us and for ensuring there is so much love and support in our family. I keep saying this but its true that I wouldnt have achieved all this without the amazing family we have... thats really what makes me feel like the luckiest lady in the world! Speaking of family, I have so much more to tell you! Did you know that it was aai and babas 25th wedding anniversary a few days after your birthday? You wont believe what I did for them! Aai always had this wish of getting re-married so I planned for a surprise wedding! I invited around 70 of our family friends, and I had Vishu kaka do a marriage ceremony where aai and baba renewed their vows, did their 7 pheras again and promised each other in front of all us that they will love, trust, respect and understand each other for the rest of their lives. It was such a beautiful moment, mummy! I wish you were there to see it. All the long days of working overtime to make the money to make this surprise happen, all the long nights of planning everything and all the work that went into actually make aais wish a reality was so worth it! All the gold medals of my badminton life and the jobs of my career aside, this felt like the biggest achievement of my life! I finally felt like I did something for my parents to show them how much I value their love, sacrifices and support and to show them how much I love them and respect them! Watching the happiness on their faces was priceless and I dont think I have ever seen them that happy. Its hard to believe that I was actually able to bring that much happiness to their life and I still feel like it is nothing in comparison with how much happiness they have given me, maithily and the rest of our family! So I want to say thank you once again for making that surprise possible and for being there to make sure everything went as planned. I also want to say thank you to all those who helped me and special thanks to: Gaurangi, Ashish kaka, Sulekha kaki! Even though they are busy, they still helped me SO much and I couldnt have done it alone! You werent the only one who missed the wedding though! Everyone in india/uk also missed it... and because of that, I spent almost 50 - 60 hours to make a video of aai and babas 25 years journey. In that video, I used a lot of your old pics too so every time we watch that video, we remember you! I wish you were to see all of this mummy, you would be so happy and proud of me! Going with the theme of weddings, gargee didi got married! Aai, baba and maithily went to the wedding but I didnt get to go :( I always miss all the weddings! I am sure they missed both me and you there but isnt that great that dhawal dada, neha didi and now gargee didi are now married? I am so happy for them :) The other thing is, Maithily was finally able to see the diwali in india so Im really happy about that too! I really miss her and I want her to have the amazing childhood that I did with our whole family! Thank you for making the trip so enjoyable for them and for making them return safe and healthy. Also, thank you for taking care of me through my amazing friends while they were gone to India! And now, the biggest good news of all! Nirali kaki gave birth to the most adorable and health little baby girl named Vaidehi :D Thank you for blessing our family with another daughter, sister and niece! She is absolutely precious and Suhani is also so happy to have a little sister to play with. Best good news ever, right? I wish we werent all so far away because it would be so nice to hold her and play with her. We are all missing that. And, honestly speaking... we really need another family photo now, mummy! I have been praying for a reunion for so long now and I constantly have dreams about it but, I am still waiting. I know you are also waiting for the perfect time so no worries, I will continue praying and I will continue being patient. I know it will be soon because you are always so great at giving us so many good news! I know I wrote a really long message today and as usual I somehow always end up crying even though I am writing to you about soooo many good news! It makes me cry cuz we really miss you but you know what I tell myself? I tell myself that even though you are not here with us to see and experience all these good news, you are really the luckiest one out of all of us because you definitely have a nice VIP seat up there in heaven right next to God and you are watching all these amazing things happen from the front seat! Thank you once again for everything and we miss you a lot! Love, Surabhi, Aaditya, Maithily, Suhani, Vaidehi, Tejal Niralie kaki, Vaibavkaka, Varsha kaki, Tushar kaka, Baba ( Sunil), Aai ( Sushama)
Posted on: Mon, 03 Feb 2014 03:39:07 +0000
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