Love... Love letters

How many of you are/were really blessed to write (or receive) love letters…

For me letters were the main strength and foundation of my relationship with her.

Our relationship was always a long distance one and fortunately the Internet… emails… online chats were not so common during those days… the cell phones used to be the status symbol and STD calls were also really costly…

Letters were the only economic mode of communication… I never thought I’d cherish them so much…

Thinking about her… first scribbling thoughts on rough paper… searching for a Card and letter pad in Archies Gallery… best possible handwriting… sometimes petals of roses… kissing her name addressed on letter…writing “I love U” at every possible corner…

We used speak on phone once a week or once a fortnight and the day we get to know that a letter is posted… every day used to pass by in wait of that letter…

Afternoon time... the postman used give letters to my grandfather… daily checking with him whether letter has come or not… hiding the desperation and anxiety and hiding the happiness and hiding the inevitable smile of my eyes… when the letter used to reach my hand…

Glaring at the entire letter before reading… kissing her name… smelling the perfume… and to say "love you for this"… reading the letter 'n' number of times… feeling every word of it…

But one day everything stopped… Internet came in… emails and chat became the mode of communication… I started earning and everything got replaced with phone calls… then SMS and cell phones took over…

And with this super fast means of communication we forgot that there was a special bonding between us by a beautiful mode called… letters…actually love letters…

A month back… my dad said… there is a letter for you and I was surprised… a letter… it must be a bank statement or credit card bill… but no…

For a second I glared at her handwriting on envelope… said to myself… it must be her… but why has she written a letter…
Even she had felt that the beautiful conversation we used to have with letters was missing…

So it was a new start to the old relationship…in an old style, which was bringing back the old smile to my face… love her for this... :-)

likhe jo Khat tujhe
vo terii yaad me.n
hazaaro.n ra.ng ke
nazaare ban gae
saveraa jab huaa
to phuul ban gae
jo raat aaii to
sitaare ban gae

Few weeks back my cell phone has caught virus… I’ve still not got it repaired…
Why???
There are some 500+ conversations which I wanna take a back up of…
And this time no electronic back up… back up in my personal diary…

Sounds crazy isn’t it… that's me :-)

"Hame tum mil jao humdum
Sahara ho to aisa ho
Jidhar dekhun udhar tum ho
Nazara ho to aisa ho

Waqt na badhne ki zidd kare
Jab meri bahon main ho tum
Zindagi ke pal sath guzre
Main aur tum ban jaye hum"