there's always something about going through all the letters you've accumulated throughout your schooling years, and watched how the conversations slowly evolved over time. I found myself reading more letters than i thought, laughing at all the stupid shit my friends and I used to talk about. I particularly miss writing to Yiyun, though. It's a shame we stopped talking after she left TK, I wonder how she is now. She wrote so beautifully in our black book. We used to pass the book to each other, building our small little world of Joe/Nick fanfiction. We also wrote about our crushes in school and laced our fantasies together with lyrics from indie bands, and of course- Jobros.
Days back then were so much easier tbh, we wrote about crying when we didn't complete our amath paper, how shit we felt when the girl we used to think was cute didn't look our way that day in the canteen... That warm fuzzy feeling when I read through all our writings in the black book. Things so trivial, but expressed with so much raw emotion, honesty and lyrics all together in a paragraph. Sometimes I wish I could write so eloquently and beautifully like her. It's still something I appreciate 6 years later. Gosh, has it really been 6 years since I was 15? My goodness. Time is fucking flying.
I miss writing letters to friends and having them write letters back to me too. It was a feeling that cannot be explained nor replaced. You can't instigate the same feeling by having someone write you an email, or a blog post. It's different when things are handwritten, scribbled across a piece of paper. I forgot how wonderful it is to receive letters filled with emotion, humour and honesty.
Maybe I'll start writing letters again. It's always the time of the year where we start looking back at the shit we've done in the year and start looking forward to the shit we're about to do in the new year.
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