It's beautiful how time changes and with it, life changes too. It feels just like yesterday when I first wore a saree, it was my nani's and I was four at that time. I feels like yesterday when I first saw my new born sister. It feels like yesterday when I used to collect firangipani flowers from the damp grass, first thing in the morning. It feels like yesterday when I met my friend on the play ground of my school and it funny how I hated her in that moment but ended up making the best memories with her. It feels like yesterday when I got my periods. It feels like yesterday when everyone got stuck in lockdown. It feels like yesterday when I first had a crush. It feels like yesterday when I changed my address. It feels like yesterday...
There is some beauty in sitting on the floor, crossing the legs and opening the old letters and greeting cards. And revisiting the golden old days of letters and inks. The days when the message as well as the messenger were equally important. I don't know how the people at that time were pouring their whole heart in few words and sealing them with the fragile stamps. Now a days, even the long chain of text with 'end-to-end encryption' can't hold a piece of emotion. Anyway, before you think I am some oldie who loves to lecture on the 'good old days', let me tell you I am not. Infact these are my mother's beloved belongings, one which she still proudly flaunts to my generation. Let me tell you something, in 2021 during lockdown, I wrote three letters and posted them to my cousins. Well they already were expecting the above mentioned letters but still I want to feel the experience of writing letters, folding them nicely, putting them in envelope, writing the a...

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