heartwarming stories from the YJA network long-distance best friend: diksha kurwa
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Esha Singhai
girl that broke into my room and slept in my bed!” and moved on, never really making an effort to talk to her.
At my first YJA Convention in 2018, I found an amazing group of friends who I was able to have fun with throughout the entire all-nighter. We played games and talked for hours, but around 6 am I had to come back to my room and pack up my suitcase. And after being up for almost 24 hours, I decided that I would take a nap before leaving. Half-awake and extremely exhausted, I started to open the covers when I saw a random girl already sleeping in my bed. I didn’t know who she was or how she got in, but I vaguely remember meeting her for a split second during the all-nighter. Weirded out, I left my hotel room, still extremely tired and without a place to sleep. About two years passed and I kept seeing this girl, Diksha Kurwa, on my Instagram because I had somehow followed her during the Convention. Every time I saw a picture of her I thought “Oh hey, that’s the weird
When the pandemic hit, I started to join YJA’s game nights with my friends and got really involved in all of the events. During these events, we went into breakout rooms pretty often so I met a lot of cool people, including Diksha, the same girl that had slept in my bed two years ago. We had mutual friends and somehow started creating our own game nights once YJA had ended theirs. I started hopping on these weekly game nights throughout the summer and started to get really close with everyone on there. Diksha and I started talking almost every day and bonded over the fact that neither of us knew how she broke into my room. We soon became long distance best friends and have been through a lot together throughout the past year. From shipping holiday gifts to each other to Facetiming for hours on end, I’m extremely happy that YJA brought us together! :)
