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The Next Thirty Days...Day 17 (Lakshmi Pratury: The lost art of letter-writing)

For today ....I think I will take a break and Lakshmi Pratury do all the talking. I found this video on TED when I was preparing for a Communication Skills Class to cover various aspects of "Writing". Since then I have watched quite a few times. There used to be time when I was in school I used to write letters to my Aunts and couple of friends who were priests. The letter exchanges continued till I reached my degree college and then they abruptly stopped. I still have few of those letters stuffed in some corner of one of the drawers which I pull out and read sometimes, not often though. The feeling is something different. Really different.
I totally agree with the point which Lakshmi makes. 

Coincidentally I did write diary each day for a month my wife starting a month before my marriage. That was a marriage gift which I gave my wife. Two and half years into the marriage she still cherishes it. And then was sudden urge to write again for each day for the next nine months when my wife informed me about the coming of our little angel. I thought it would be a wonderful experience to write about anxiety and anxious of an expecting dad. This time however I didn't for whatsoever reason. Till day I found this video and instantly connected with it. I surely intend to take the pen and paper route soon if not now to leave a legacy for child for her to be able to touch and feel the same piece of paper and experience the words which once passed through my heart on to the paper. So let's get a feel of the legacy of slowly fading art of letter writing.




Hope you will enjoy and relate with it.
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