Missing the Snail Mail?

I do. We write letters for several reasons. Received letters affect our emotion it can make our day, complete  it will ruin our day till the sun goes down. 

I still remember the telegram which was used by the elders then (30 years ago) where the words are limitted because the charge is based on the number of letters written. This type of  service is expensive because it will be received by the recipient in a very short of time or a day after that is why it is only used for urgent notices. So, the common way of exchanging ideas and stories between friends decades ago was thru what we called now the snail mail, which normally takes 3-5 days before you receive it.

It's funny to recall the times after I graduated in college and my friends returned to their hometown and some try their luck abroad for greener pasture. A letter from a friend who resides in Isabela  takes a week for me to wait while letter from Saudi Arabia takes 2 weeks to sail for a considered "registered mail".

But with that experience, I should say that I am lucky enough to witness this remote communication between people. Reading a letter written in a sweet scented paper is amazing. I can't remember the last time I recieved one, huh! Maybe I have to tell my husband after this critical period in academe :-) and maybe I have to make one for my daughter Im sure she will love it.

But now, text messaging and social network are replacing this traditional way of correspondence. It is more faster easier and cheaper. It will not make you wait but sometimes it will also make us feel restless for we are automatically assume sometimes that we must reply ASAP for the received messages. Unlike in snail mail, every reader is given a chance to think and conceptualized first the idea before doing a reply. In snail mail we can   apply creative writing and critical thinking :-)