Letter
by Rajat
In this era of email, who has the time to write a letter? Perhaps, I do.
Give me a choice between a letter and an email, and I will definitely choose the former. Especially so when I am writing to somebody I haven’t heard from since a long time. The look and feel of a genuine, physical letter has its own class. The vey thought that the sender has spent much of his precious time in crafting an emotional letter is well understood by the receipient. The very fact that you can hug a letter and cry, is unmatched!
Nostalgic moments are best caught by a letter. In my family too, letters are literally worshipped. When somebody stumbles upon a very old letter somewhere, all of us get excited! And that letter is read with so much feeling that I just can’t tell you!
As it happened today. Me and mom were cleaning up an old cupboard when we came across an old letter dating back to 1992. It was from a friend of Mom — a doctor who lives in the US. In the letter, she congratulated Mom for having a ‘handsome’ baby boy (Hell! That was me!), and wished her good luck for her life ahead.
Can an email ever match this?
Even today, I make it a point to write letters. When it was going to be the last day of school, I made it a point to write farewell letters to the closest of my friends, even though I had my Board Exams on the anvil. You should have looked at their faces! They were so surprised, so happy!
Who does not love to have nostalgic moments? And what’s the better way than digging out some old letters and remembering your good times?
Image Credit — Laineys Repertoire
