9th March 2026
Dear precious angel,
I no longer feel energetic to play games that I used to love so much when I was a kid. I don’t know the precise reason that brought this change inside me. All I know is hide & seek is a game I used to enjoy a lot. I would always play this game when my childhood friend, Ravi, would visit our house located in BHEL colony, Sector-17, Noida. I used to explore places and ways to hide myself in order to keep myself from getting caught. I used to insist visitors of our house to play hide & seek with me but today my little sister of just 4years old has to insist me to play that game with her. Whatever my mood is, I try my best to play that game with her as I can feel my childhood brain through her eyes; I can feel her urge and excitement to play that game with me. While playing hide & seek with her when my turn comes to find her, I find my childhood days and my childhood heart. My precious angel, I wish I could talk to you and tell you what my experience was while playing with our Riya. I wish I could tell you how she laughs when I find her in her hiding place, how she says “Vicky daai, aajao”(Vicky brother, come and find me) even before I end my counting from 1 to 10, how cleverly she hides her feet in curtains while climbing up in window behind those curtains, how she crouches while hiding below the bed and how I give her long kisses once I find her. You know what? My heart remembers you even while playing with her. Your memories are stuck with my Riya, your Riyu. I am not being able to keep my Riya separate from you, my precious angel. How are you being able to manage to keep yourself away from this small innocent kid, my angel? Only you & almighty God knows it. Well, with all modesty I proclaim that I am expert in playing hide & seek. In terms of hiding my sorrows and pain inside my heart from the people. But my angel, you can easily catch my sorrows and pain, can’t you? Catch all those things what I am hiding inside me and say “Eyes Pies” and you will find my tears in my eyes.
Your hidden gem, Vivek Prasad
