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The other day, my friend, Zeenat was telling me that her
English teacher in school always told her that she would become a writer when
she grew up because she wrote her essays well. Zeenat was in Muscat then and
her teacher was an Englishman.
Well, my teacher in school always said that I will become a
clerk in a government office, because I was always writing. This is India...:-)
I have always been a writer...a letter writer...before technology
took the fun out of it. Initially, when I move to Ahmedabad (Gujarat) after
marriage, I wrote letters regularly on a weekly basis to friends and family. I
used to remember the birthdays, anniversaries or any other day that was special
to someone. I loved the very ritual of going to the card store and choosing the
cards and writing on the cards to add the personal touch.
Me and my mom, we exchanged letters, long ones, without an
inch of paper visible, every week, sharing minute details. She wrote to me
until she could no longer write.
I also remember my cousin brothers who were in the US of A
then, write letters....pages and pages of them, describing their life there. We
used to wait for them and that letter would be circulating within the family,
until we received the next.
Technology made us lazy.
Writing letters these days? Count your blessings on a
social networking site!!!
For - A-To-Z Challenge
Lovely post about the lost art of letter writing :) I used to love writing letters and my husband used to write beautiful ones to me, I still have a bagful of those.Nowadays its a sms :)
ReplyDeleteTechnology took the fun out of so many things...thanks Sulekha.
DeleteLetter writing has definitely become a lost art, in this high paced technological world of email and texting. It's kind of sad. I was actually thinking of how I used to, when I was a child, have fun writing back and forth to my grandfather.
ReplyDeleteGreat post.
There a personal touch to those letters.
DeleteThanks Jessica.
I used to write letters very much the same way when I was younger. I have carpel tunnel in both wrists and eventually, it began to get the best of me. My letter-writing slowly came to an end. Even now, it sometimes affects the amount of writing I do on my blog because of the pain. Your post has brought back wonderful memories for me. Thank you!
ReplyDeleteit is a bit sad that the art of writing a letter has somewhat disappeared...i love letters, personal...and it shows that you took the time to write it and in your own hand instead of a cold computer driven email...
DeleteOh! sorry about that Mary. Thanks Mary for the visit.
DeleteTrue Brian...:-)
DeleteWriting letters is a lost art :(
ReplyDeleteYes Ayala.
DeleteHello Janu.
ReplyDeleteI am always writing letters...to my wife, to my mom who lives overseas. I am one of those who is technically challenged. I love pens and there's nothing like the feel of a good pen in one's hand. Writing is indeed a lost art & technology is ever changing, but I will always write my poetry by hand using good old paper & pen. Thanks for sharing.
Totally agree with you on this.
ReplyDeleteReminds me of a letter one of my frnds wrote me when I was just 7. she'd gone to visit her grand parents in the summer vacation and i was left alone. she wrote me a long letter describing how things were there and how much she was missing me...
Felt really really good.
An email or an fb message wudn't have done so.
That personal touch is a beautiful thing...
:))
Love ya for writing this..