How to Orange

Dear Aditi,

  To me, happiness at one point had become the colour orange. I just related it to being happy, but not the oblivious sort of happy  you are happy without knowing the reason. No, this happy was the sort of one you get knowing it's a scary road ahead but you are willing to face it with a smile, okay maybe in my case crib about it while doing it, but I crib about everything so that doesn't count.

But there are also other reasons to like the colour orange. Like the fruit orange. And the smell of the fruit orange. At this point almost all the products I use are orange scented. So yeah, I'm orange trash.

Now it's very rare I get sentimental with more than one line to say but do you remember the first time we had gone to Jappaloupe? The first time we had, I think we were in sixth grade and I used to a comic artist drawing LK Comics. Less worrying times, if I'm being honest. Unless we are talking about my grades, because I used to barely pass in Sanskrit. The important.

But that was the time you lost your Samsung Corby which I think had some orange colour on it. And you had to use my Samsung Corby instead for the rest of the trip, which in that 1 hour we used to get to call our parents would seem like a problem but honestly I barely spoke to them even then. Most of my calls were just letting them know I'm alive.

Then next time we went to Jappaloupe, we were still in your car and your dad was driving and it was far to early for any normal human to be awake. I think you had some Nokia and so did I. But I had a different Nokia. It was a C6, I think. And my brother owned a black one and I owned a silver one.

Anyway, the phone isn't the important part. Somewhere in conversation our favourite colour came up, and at that time I didn't have one but you did. Yours was green, somewhere from a light green to a leaf green. My tiny brain also wanted a favourite colour, and I looked out of the window to find one and saw the rising sun which made the whole sky a ahade of orange. And I thought that was beautiful and decided that that needs to be my favourite colour. (There is also the fact that Peeta Mellark really liked orange and I liked Peeta so I was like yes orange, but that's a far less emotional story.)

Now when I look back at it, I wouldn't change what that dumb kid said because right now in this moment, I really do love the colour orange.

See you in hell,
Upa.