You have nothing to do. You are strolling about your room with a nonchalance you would want to hide from the outside world. A stack of papers in one corner of the cupboard seem to invite you.....you try recollecting their intent as you carefully wipe off the much accumulated dust.
They have not been touched as you have 'matured', grown and learnt to live with emails and cell phones. But you still carry them along, like the only possesions a nomad would want to save. They were delivered to you when you needed them the most. A letter would enchant you so much so that you would read it again and again till you finally decided to stack it up amongst the others. You must be very lucky that you get back to them, that they still form an integral part of your existance. No hard disk space shortage or a connectivity failure will destroy them, they shall not abuse the langauge with ur, lol, rotfl,c u etc. and will get only better with the yellowness of age. A letter is more like an instance of a person you live with all throughout your life. As if the individual speaks to you every time around you rake them up...the yellow crinky pages I mean. Wherever you go whatever you do a band of tangible memories continues with you as long as a smallish pack of can make itself comfy in the gizmotic baggage.
3 comments:
That was a simple yet profound observation.
I think that as much as a letter is special to the person who receives it, it also shows how much that one person is to the person who writes it... no Ccs and Bccs used. I guess that makes a letter even more special.
hear hear!
technology really isnt all its cranked out to be... though i receive very few letters (all my friends are lazy/illiterate/both!)i LOVE writing em. its so satisfying to be able to stop writing to throw in a quick artistic squiggle to show what youre trying to describe! :-)
very nice i still write letters to my grandmom,because that makes her more happier rather than a phone call or an email.but how often you gave reply to those letters,who really have been dying to receive them nothing much about the contents just a hi?
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