my name is pratanu
my email is pratanu16@indiatimes.com[/quote]
Umm maybe you missed the point of this article. I actually want to write to someone, and send a letter the good old fashioned way! Thanks for the sentiment though.
| I would begin a new letter to her immediately after I'd received one from her. I wrote, off and on, for three or four days at a time (so each letter was a mini-diary) - if I was working on a poem for her, which I did a lot of the time, it might be as long as a week. And then I'd send it to her, wait for her reply, and begin again. |
You see that is so romantic to me. That's like keeping someone far away as a really important part of your life, and sharing your inner most thoughts with them, even if you can't be there. I love the idea of that.
| Like you I enjoy the physical act of writing - I use an ink pen, actually it's a special edition Harley Davidson Anniversay Ink Pen with a gold nib and silver wire over an ebony barrel. |
Hehe you know this made me think, and though it sounds silly...I have diaries that I have kept for years, and I have always loved stationary...I just can't get enough of it. Anyway, I was looking at some diaries I wrote when I was in high school, when I was about 14, and I wrote them in these pink and purple pens, the thing is, the ink smells of sweets. I found myself sniffing the page (strange I know!) and you can still smell them, that brought back loads of memories, I can tell ya!
| But now you can hit the delete key and destroy your words completely at a stroke, the people who will eventually become writers of stature and significance won't leave behind them paper-trails of multiple drafts that show the writer working. |
I have hundreds and hundreds pieces of paper lying about the place. I just can't have the same creativity sitting at my pc, I don't know why that is. I love it though. Just having loads of notes, and ideas about the place. You can't beat that, and I hope I never lose it!
| There was an intimacy and personal connection (I could often read the state of her mind from the state of her hand-writing, just as she could read the state of my mind from mine) to it all that no email or instant message will ever match. |
*sigh* You see this is what I miss! I couldn't of put it more perfectly than that.
Hey babes, I'm great about writing . . . and I miss it as well. Drop me a letter, or send me your address via "that dern internet thing" and I'll write you something. Promise. | 