Dear Kareena,
I'm Kriann from the
Philippines. I am a huge fan! The moment I laid eyes on you on my TV
screen while watching 3 Idiots I instantly fell under your spell. Then I googled
you and watched all your films. I even watched all your TV guestings even when most
of the time I only understand bits and pieces of the whole conversation.
But what must one do to catch
your attention? To let you know of my existence? Especially for someone that
lives timezones away from you? Someone who only knows a handful of Hindi
phrases? So, I put on my thinking cap and these are the ideas that I came up
with:
I thought about faking my identity
and tell you that I'm the Philippines' presidential daughter. But that won't be
possible as our president is the most eligible man in the country. He
doesn't have a daughter that the country knows of. I would be putting
myself at risk if I told you that. Risk from being kidnapped and/or being
chased by the local authorities for constructing lies about the president's
life.
I also thought of playing the
sick and dying card, but that's just sad and at the same time difficult. What
if you bought my story and it reached the media? Sooner or later you'll all
be wondering why my health isn't deteriorating or worst why I'm still alive? I
just can't stomach that, that's just too low even for a fanatic like me.
Then I thought about
going the Hugh Grant way in Notting Hill: pretending to be someone from a
magazine. It's much easier than any of my other options. I used to write for
our school paper in high school and college, so I could just easily wing it. I
could make a mock magazine in just a couple of hours. I think I could get
away with it.
I could actually do
everything that I have thought of. But I didn't. No matter what option, I would
still be deceiving myself and especially you, and that I can't take.
So, trashing all my
"brilliant" ideas... I just settled with writing an open letter to
you. Pray that someday, somehow it will reach your hands. One day when
I get to visit your country, you would invite me for a cup of coffee, or tea,
or water or whatever. I don't really care, as long as I will meet you in
person. But for now, I'll just settle for you and me having an animated
conversation over a cup of coffee in my head.
Dreaming to be your friend,
Kriann
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