Dear Basketball,

The moment I touched you was the best moment of my life, maybe even the luckiest. I instantly fell in love with you since the day we got close. You became my obsession, my love, my happiness, my painkiller, and most importantly my partner. Maybe it was just a coincidence that we came close, maybe it was just luck that we got attached or maybe it was my destiny. The day I loved you was the happiest day of my life, it made me realize how joyful and calm I am when I’m with you. But it wasn’t easy!!

From trying to make that first shot, to making buzzer beaters my heart always skips a beat as if I am destined to be there. I never loved anything more than you, you are who you were and you will always be a part of me. Watching those NBA finals at the age of 11 and thinking every day about you regardless of the hard times, challenges, and mental and physical pain was the most beautiful thing that I have ever encountered to date. 

I was just a freaking nobody and you were the thing that made me feel alive for the first time in my life. I never enjoyed doing anything other than cuddling with you, holding you in my hands, talking with you, playing with you, and most especially being with you. Just a glimpse of you made my day. 

Now I’m in class 11 .7 years since I fell in love with you. And this year it’s going to be the 8th year of us being together. I still don’t know why but I’m really into you more than anything that I have ever encountered. Since childhood, there were obstacles in every phase of our journey. Study, Parents, Friends, Teachers, Priorities, Health issues, Injuries, Time management, Isolation, and that feeling of being underrated. But we won all those battles regardless of how tough it was, hard, painful, and time-consuming it was. All those sacrifices that I made throughout my 7 years to be with you and cherish those moments is all worth it. 

I love you more than anything. Even if this world falls apart and turns into pieces I will put every single ounce of my effort just to spend that 1 moment with you. You’re the soul of my lifeline. I can’t even imagine myself and my existence without you. Regardless of the uncertainty that we have and will always have, I bet that there won’t be any freaking universe where we aren’t together. There are moments of separation that tear me apart into pieces. That lack of progress and failure still stabs my heart. But the love I have for you is always going to increase every second of my life till my time finally runs out.

You were the only thing that never made me sad, you were the only thing that never made me dissatisfied, you were the only thing that always pushed me to work hard and improve myself. And most importantly you were the only thing that never betrayed me, that never disappointed me, that never compared me with anyone, that never chose someone else over me, that never left me alone and most importantly loved me seeing the love that I had for you. That love that keeps me going, encourages me, motivates me to date. 

You are just not an ordinary common game of rubber leather ball for me. You are the thing that gave me the respect and confidence that I have for myself. Made me feel loved, joyful, and happy !!. You are the only thing that can force me to fight the entire world. And even if that happens then I will be out there on the battlefield against the entire world just to be with you and I am not losing whatsoever. You are the most precious and important thing to me, I adore you and love you for that. 

Just like how I was and will be breathing, eating, training, sleeping, learning, fighting until I die! I will always be there with you. Even at the age of 100, I will be hooping sitting in a wheelchair. Creating that same moment of imagination and commentary for the 26th million time “1 sec on the clock, the ball in the hands of Presciss Kharel There he goes for the shot BANGGG he hits it to win it all for himself, what a play was that !!” From the age of 10 until I die I will always be that same kid with the love and passion for the game.

The day my time runs out, I want you to be there with me. Just like the first time I ever held you, I want us to be together. I want us to reunite on the other side of the world where there will be all the peace, time, and destiny for us to live moments with each other with no one being there to stop us, to impose obstacles, and barriers, and to try to separate us . Spending the rest of eternity together in peace! 

I LOVE YOU FOREVER MORE THAN ANYTHING AND EVERYTHING 

By: Presciss Kharel (Science, K1)