Seasons Greetings

I remember almost 13-14 years ago when around this time of the year we would be busy with the sending and receiving New Year Cards.There used to be tents almost in every street of our colony with colourful and beautiful cards for Christmas and New Year.Even my cousins used to set up these shops for some time pass and making few bucks in the season. We used to collect all the money from the previous pocket money to buy cards for the near ones..we used to prepare a list of the friends of our class, friends from previous schools, relatives, Dad's friends, his colleagues and this process would start almost from mid december. We used to search for the cards with best wordings, buy them and got to post offices to get stamps and post them in the nearest post box.then we would be delighted to receive cards from our friends too. I would write in the best of my hand writings with all slants,smileys and in different colours of gels and glittering pens..me and my bro always compared who got the max number of cards and who got the best that year..these would later be sticked to the clothes and book almaraihs for the whole year until the next year arrived with more and more cards. Dad used to get cards in office which he brought home to show us.

Today, where are these tents, where do we find cards? i have hardly seen a post office nearby my home back in India,post boxes are rarely seen which earlier used to be seen in almost every colony. Few years back it was a personalised e-card which later was replaced by bulk mails..later arrived the mobiles when atleast we used to call a person to convey wishes but soon these were replaced by bulk SMSes..now these too are gone..we find messages only on FaceBook and when you are tagged you have to think :" ok so this person has wished me so let me too wish her/him". Then we pass the same message to all the contacts be it best friends,friends,relatives,parents,brothers/sisters, colleagues or even aquaintance..nothing is personalised..no one feels special about it..

At this time of the new year, i miss sending cards to my near ones with so many warm feelings attached right from the time when we chose a card for keeping the person in mind and receiveing the same with a feeling that" yes we are remembered by them and we are in their thoughts"..

DEAR FRIENDS, WISH YOU ALL A PROSPEROUS AND FUN FILLED NEW YEAR..

Cheers,
Sush

 

thanks satchi for your fb..yes thats true too..lots of paper is saved with these e-cards..but i still miss the personalised touch..

 

aruna ji,
thanks for your fb and thanks for dropping by..
yes even i have become very lazy these days and i just send all close frnds and relatives a e-card..

 

dear bhargavi,
yes..so many bday cards..i remember my friend who went to the shop for my bday ending up buying so many as she loved all of them and gave them to me for my bday..when ever i used to go to a card shop with friends,if i liked some cards and wordings i would instantly buy them even though there used to be no ocassion at that time..there were later given to friends on bdays..How i love the Anne Geddes cards with so chweet cute babies..

 

thanks for dropping by SP..glad u liked it