That was evening around 4.30 when I returned from college. As usual I was tired from all those hour long lectures of physics, chemistry, biology and maths. I had not expected that something would be waiting for me that day, a very surprising thing to me.. Soon as I stepped into my home, I heard my mom telling me that there was a letter to me..!! I was very surprised to hear that as I had never got any letter to me from anyone. I saw that it was a inland letter. Normally people write in inland letters when there is something personal, and as far as I knew there was no one to my vision to write something personal to me.!! I saw that the sender of that letter had not written their name in the 'from' column of the letter.. On seeing that many negetive and positive thoughts started haunting me, whether its any threat letter or a love letter and still many other thoughts made me scared to open that letter.. With my mind messed in between the +ve and -ve thoughts, I finally dared to open that letter, but as I had never seen any inland letter, I didn't know how to open it, I was afraid that I may tare it, still I somehow opened that letter carefully not to spoil it... :) Here was the great surprise waiting for me, knowing the person who wrote that letter to me. :)
When I saw that the letter was written by a close friend of mine from school, KAVYASHREE, i was overjoyed and was on cloud nine and laughed at myself for all those silly -ve thoughts.. :) I could not resist my happiness, though she had not written much in her letter as it was first letter she was also writing, it contained lots of things for which there are no words to describe.. :) Never had I had such a joyful moment in my life, and I believe never will I have it again.. :) She had included some friendship quotes in her letter and had told about her new college and new friends. I read that letter more than 10 times that day, still I was not satisfied, I still wanted to read it again and again. Now I had got some very cutest reason to boast in front of my new friends of I PUC, I would carry that letter with me always in my bag, and flaunt it in front of all my friends which really made them jealous of my sweetest, cutest, lovely friend... :) after some days of flaunting that letter I finally decided to reply to that letter and me too wrote a letter to kavyashree.. :) From then we continued to write letter to each other rather than calling each other on phone. She would send me greetings on my birthdays, friendship days, etc. and I too would follow the same. But by the time we completed our PUC in different colleges, we had got some friends, may be that kept us a bit apart in some unknown way. Both of us got into B.Sc and again in different colleges... :( In those three years of that degree life, we almost forgot to write letters... The letter was replaced by the telephone chat at first and then by sms.. Never in those three years I felt that joy when i spoke to her or had a mobile chat with her, which I would feel when I used to write the letter and read them from her. Even now I simply love to write letters to her, but I find it very difficult to take out time for that as i find myself almost busy all time with classes, tests, friends n more with mobile.... and even she ll always be busy with her job, earning money. I dont know whether to blame it on the technology which made us forget about the letters or on ourselves.!!
When I saw that the letter was written by a close friend of mine from school, KAVYASHREE, i was overjoyed and was on cloud nine and laughed at myself for all those silly -ve thoughts.. :) I could not resist my happiness, though she had not written much in her letter as it was first letter she was also writing, it contained lots of things for which there are no words to describe.. :) Never had I had such a joyful moment in my life, and I believe never will I have it again.. :) She had included some friendship quotes in her letter and had told about her new college and new friends. I read that letter more than 10 times that day, still I was not satisfied, I still wanted to read it again and again. Now I had got some very cutest reason to boast in front of my new friends of I PUC, I would carry that letter with me always in my bag, and flaunt it in front of all my friends which really made them jealous of my sweetest, cutest, lovely friend... :) after some days of flaunting that letter I finally decided to reply to that letter and me too wrote a letter to kavyashree.. :) From then we continued to write letter to each other rather than calling each other on phone. She would send me greetings on my birthdays, friendship days, etc. and I too would follow the same. But by the time we completed our PUC in different colleges, we had got some friends, may be that kept us a bit apart in some unknown way. Both of us got into B.Sc and again in different colleges... :( In those three years of that degree life, we almost forgot to write letters... The letter was replaced by the telephone chat at first and then by sms.. Never in those three years I felt that joy when i spoke to her or had a mobile chat with her, which I would feel when I used to write the letter and read them from her. Even now I simply love to write letters to her, but I find it very difficult to take out time for that as i find myself almost busy all time with classes, tests, friends n more with mobile.... and even she ll always be busy with her job, earning money. I dont know whether to blame it on the technology which made us forget about the letters or on ourselves.!!
In todays world of great inventions and technology, many old traditions and customs are vanishing, or may be it would be right to tell that we are destroying them. Still some people have done their best to keep them alive......
