Finding Lost Avid Letterman

This morning I had the strong urge to write a letter, not an email, using the good old pen. These days pens have been relegated for menial task of signing on the dotted line or they are simply used as ornaments on your attire. I sincerely regret that.

So I decided to write. I could think of no other recipient than my uncle, who was the one responsible for me to get started with letter writing. In my childhood days we exchanged many letters. As time went by I got mired in other things and simply gave up on writing. Had it not been for my correspondences with my uncle I probably would not have realized that I like writing. Had I continued writing I would not have been a software engineer but probably a student of some linguistics subject.

There is something meditative and blissful about writing with a pen. Time slows down. Your mind relaxes. I almost felt like a cow chewing the cud ever so slowly in green pastures :). I am a touch-typist and I can type really fast. However, neither the slowness of writing with pen nor the absence of spell-checkers and rich text formatting made me groan. Made a mistake? Simply scratch the wrong words and write the right ones beside them. To err is human, right? It is amazing that despite the slowness of this art you never realize that you have already finished few pages in no time. I enjoy the timelessness experienced while writing.

I only wish that my handwriting was a little more presentable. When I come across a written matter written in beautiful handwriting it makes my heart yearn to have such a skill.

So folks write a letter instead of an email once in a while and experience the bliss :).