letters

e-mail killed letters, and that was a shame. it's been years since i've got mail - real mail, not electricity bills or silly advertising. i remember two girls to who i wrote some letters in the past (or they were the ones writing to me, can't remember who started it). i never met them in person. the first one was studying in a school not that far away, and my class and hers were exchanging letters. a rendez-vous was planned, but when the day came, i couldn't be present. the second one, a girl named l., i'm not even sure how we started writing to each other, but i believe we met in some random internet chat - back then i could only access the internet on my school, since i had no computer at home. we've written to each other for several years, but she lived in the north and we never had a chance to meet each other. i can't remember exactly why we stopped writing to each other, but at some point we did, and i've never heard form her since then.

nowadays no one writes letters anymore. writing in a piece of pacer, walk to the post office and send it is too much trouble when we can click all the way through our e-mail accounts. pity. for the sake of velocity and instant communication, something has been lost. we don't know anymore the feeling of waiting days for a letter, of checking the mailbox every morning, of following the postman's movement from behind the window. we have no idea how good it is to grab a piece of paper handwritten by someone and read it, for those words were meant to us, and to us alone. we lost all that, exchanged it by the zeros and ones of digital communication.

and we've also lost the love letters... who writes them nowadays? no one. today we propose ourselves through e-mail, msn messenger or sms. wow. how romantic, hum?