it's officially
Happy Birthday,
Kheer
my favorite person to walk beside, hand in hand, under any sky.
✦
My Keerthi,
You know that thing we do — walking side by side at night, no real destination, just streetlights and quiet and your hand in mine? I think about those walks more than I probably should. The way the whole world goes soft and slow, like it's just making room for us. I could walk forever like that, as long as your fingers stay laced through mine.
You are the calm at the end of my loudest days and the person I want beside me on every ordinary night for the rest of my life. Today I just want you to feel exactly how loved you are — not because it's your birthday, but because it's always true, and today's just the day I get to say it louder.
— yours, always
our favorite kind of night
Streetlamps. Your hand finding mine before I even reach for it. That comfortable quiet where we don't need to fill every second with words. I've fallen in love with you slowly, on a hundred different nights like that — and I'd choose every single one again.
make a wish 🕯️
blow out the candles — tap each flame
a few things I love about you
(picking only a few was genuinely so hard)
how your hand always finds mine before I even reach for it
your laugh — it fixes every bad day I've ever had, no exceptions
the way ordinary nights become my favorite memories, just because you're in them
you listen like it's the only thing worth doing in that moment
every quiet walk with you feels like something worth keeping forever
loving you is the easiest, softest thing I've ever done
here's to you, my Kheer
May this year bring you everything your heart is quietly hoping for, and a hand to hold through all of it. Thank you for choosing me, walk after walk, night after night. I hope today feels as good as you make every one of mine feel.
🕯️ 🤍 💫