UNMASKING LAUGHTER

To

The girl with earth shattering laughter

Laughter is the best medicine, they say. But how bitter, how unbearable can it be for the person administering its doses. This is perhaps the only medicine that heals when ingested, but ruins the healer in this process. To make someone laugh is not easy. 

And if you’ve taught me anything, it is exactly this.

It boggles me that there are so many of you behind that dazzling, electric smile. The more I get to know you, the more I try to rake out everything hidden behind that simple smile of yours. In fact, I know there is so much more to you. 

Do you remember the first time you brought out the devil in me? That voice, which one could hear from millions of miles away, was booming through the hallways of our college.

“HI!” it rang out excitedly in my direction.

A friendly greeting to an absolute stranger.

And I, like a clueless chicken, got tagged along with that voice. But boy was I glad! I will forever cherish the first day I spent with you in the shady college lawns. You spoke and I listened. You and your obscene antics, absolutely shameless yet seemingly perfectly content with yourself, beckoning me to “LIVE” a little. You went on speaking in a voice boomeranging through the hushed lawn. I went on listening and laughing and making merry. After all, doesn’t the speaker need a listener to make that perfect pair? It was the best day of an otherwise miserable summer. 

So you can draw, and write a complete paragraph in reverse alphabet (which, by the way, is a skill I haven’t witnessed ever before), and you’re hiding a couple of wounds behind your laughter. But let me tell you that you’re complete-a whole person. And I’m so touched that you introduced me to this whole person, your flaws included, unlike the others who are content with gauging you through the width of your smile. 

I love you just the way that you are. But I solemnly swear that I would never judge you based on that laughter alone. Don’t let it fade away. But just in case you needed a shoulder to rest upon, I will be there. 

Forever. 

Yours truly