Oh! Those Letters...

Mobile has changed the way of our life. But it also took away something I and probably many of us would have loved to bargain for. The joy of writing and of course reading a letter.
There was a time when letters were written. We waited for one every next morning. The days when it came, we read and re-read it. We planned for how to reply, what to reply, when to reply. We thought and thought how I should address, what things I should not write. Actually letters became the mirror of our self in the reader’s eyes. But somehow it fell at the onslaught of this audio medium.
We never thought if ever we would stop writing letters. Now I doubt if we would ever stop talking on mobile, or for that matter mobile will become a victim of some new technology. As of now, probably ‘NO’.
Let me ask you one question, do any of you miss writing a letter? At least when you read some old letter in your Granny’s locker or your pa’s file. Go and ask your parents how they felt when they received a letter. How they were excited when they first talked to someone sitting thousands of mile away? And how they feel that postman knocking at the door when that old ragged postcard or inland letter suddenly is found. Yes that must be exciting.
Personally, I feel, letters had that ‘distance creates love phenomenon’ not found with mobiles. The problem has aggravated also because we have become self-centred. Also because we want others not to share, because we never become friends now. We remain partners, we remain competitors, and we remain successes or failures. Our success which is defined in bizarre terms today has nothing to do with that human touch which should ideally bind a man with a man.
We have come closer to move away. We talk to share, our hobbies, our achievements, our beliefs and our ideologies but not what we are. Letters gave the scope to say many things without saying every thing.
That old world’s majestic charm…! Alas could be brought back, just if we try to be more sensible.