Letters from Canada

Letters from Canada

I am still an old school on this aspect and on weekends, I take time to hand-write letters or postcards to people I really care about. If you have received one from me, you really matter :)

Similarly, I have a friend or actually I don't know what to call this person. She is now a friend to me, at one point me was someone special and till date how much I want to avoid talking to her, she still sends me these letters from Canada about her life.

It's like sitting here in India I can get all the updates about her. She has changed, matured and is all grown up now but what make these letter special is the innocence she pens these down with.

Child like filled with smileys and her writing so good that words actually turn out to be stories.

I used to feel that you decide to walk out of something or someone, it doesn't mean that you actually do. The person can make you part of their life irrespective of the stand you take. 

I am still learning to embrace this side of me wherein I shed my strong will image and actually smile at times reading such letter. 

Even the hazelnut brownie or my home made coffee can't make me smile so much I never realized.

During one of NGO visits, I happen to sit and have chat with a 12 year old girl who by the way does amazing paper mache. She made learn or re-learn how to make a boat, an aeroplane a candle and the tippy-tippy tap, if that's what it's called as a Level 1 learner. She writes, every Sunday, 7 letters to her 7 best friends and then posts them.  This is way better, I assume than a whatsapp group chat. She shared with me that though every 7 of them don't reply everytime she sends these letters, but once in a while when she gets a letter it's a beautiful moment!

You don't stop putting in effort if the other person is not your story. They may not be in a chapter or two but they can always be in your story even if they don't want to :) 

Kids teach so much, that we already know, yet we forget since we feel these are now kiddish things but these so called kiddish things are the actual essence of friendships or relationships. 

Write one today... Even if it doesn't come back...