A letter from May 12th, 2020

Dear Prionti, Its farah from 5 years ago :) right now we are in quarantine and both fasting. I miss you a lot because first off school is not even opened and we have to social distance. Ur birthday is coming up in like 3 days and ur gonna be freaking 17, you oldie 😳. But I really truly hope that we are still in touch by the time this letter is sent to you. But if we aren’t I hope it helps us get in touch because I want to remind you of how good to me you were. Lemme start off with this. When I was in middle school my biggest insecurity was the amount of friends I had. Literally all I could think about was who I was gonna sit with at lunch, and how do I make friends. I was so shy and so weird but even the thought of sitting alone would scare me cause I felt that people would make fun of me. I was afraid of speaking up for myself and so many incidents happened where people were let off to say the rudest things to me. Like once someone around me said “wow she has friends” it was like my biggest insecurity just came true. It was proven to me and every time I thought about him saying that I would ball my eyes out. I still get super sad about it sometimes and it was like in 7th grade and I’m in 10th grade now. Ever since that day I was like I want to be more confident in myself, I wanna talk to more people and speak up for myself. 8th grade I started to get better and of course when 9th grade came around all I could think about was who is gonna be friends with me. Most of my friends were leaving off to kempner or to Hightower so that would mean I would have to make new friends. When we started talking you made me feel so important, I felt so appreciated. You would compliment my lame jokes and would actually wanna be around me. It made me feel so important and loved. Prionti you literally boosted me and made such a better person. I literally get happy everytime i think about you AND IM SO GLAD THAT I MET YOU. Alamos class with Dawson, piper, Sebastian, Jacob and everyone was literally the highlight of my 9th grade and trust me I will never ever forget it. Our laughs where it was hard to breathe, our strolls around the stairs during lunchtime just talking, our Starbucks trips after school with Dawson were amazing and I wish we could go back. I love you so much and I literally won’t change anything about you. I hope that you are at a good point in your life and that you are happy and healthy InshAllah. Thank you for all that you have done for me and that you will continue to do for me. Don’t let anyone bring you down. Mwah mwah mwah -Sincerely Farah Syed (hope we don’t hate each other and sending you this won’t be awkward haha 😳)