Letters

We live in the electronic age. Everything happens the e-way. U get e-greetings. U get e-mails. U make e-friends. U even fall in love over the net!

Coming to e-mails, its something that most of us cant live without today. I myself cant think of what life would be without e-mails. But no matter how much I am dependent on e-mails, no matter how many times i keep refreshing my mail accounts to check for mails :o), the charm of a letter can never be dethroned.

I still remember when in first yr of engineering, no matter how much work load was there, I always used to manage to find time to write letters on a weekly or fortnightly basis. And what u sow so shall u reap. So I always had a steady flow of letters coming to me. Letters from home. Letters from my then crush (I wont use the word girlfriend, because for me it means much more than a crush.....Anurag....stop digressing...that was my antaraatma talking to me :o)). So all of us friends used to sit down and read letters and it was so nice.

But leaving the status symbol apart, of being the person who receives the most number of letters in the hostel (ok within my friend circle. I used to get letters from home almost every fortnight :o). Also from friends, coz i wrote to them once in a month or so), the very feeling of getting a letter is something special.
Its not about being in college. The very fact that you hold in ur hands a piece of paper which someone has actually written down for u, put down thoughts, events, experiences, emotions, just for u. Its a very very very special feeling. And I do miss it.

The last I wanted to write a letter was in Bangalore. I wanted to write it and leave it in a mailbox where the concerned person would collect it. But due to circumstances, that was not to be.
Even now, I sometimes feel like receiving a letter. But then am too lazy to sit down and write one. So unless I write one how do i expect to receive one? And even if i write one, still should I expect to receive one. Coz i would have got over my laziness, but would the other person also get over it.

To think of it, since I learnt handwriting analysis, I never wrote or received a letter. Now when i think of it, actually now is the time when i should be writing and receiving letters, coz i can read not just the lines but the emotions and the person also to some extent.

But I am too lazy for it.

I still want to write one letter. But do i get to write it? Dunno. Really doubt it :o)
But then that is a different story for a different day for a different time. For now, I miss my dear letters