\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n \u00a0<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n My dear<\/p>\n I am really glad you reply to mails as and when you can.<\/p>\n Some of the dear friends to whom I send mails regularly and who do not reply regularly, have been complaining about the unusual way I compose my mails that put them at a disadvantage.<\/p>\n \u201cWhy do you take so much trouble over them?<\/p>\n Why do you put in so much of flourish?<\/p>\n Why can you not be ordinary and use words like \u2018awesome\u2019 and make grammatical and spelling mistakes like the rest of the world does?<\/p>\n These are not mistakes really.<\/p>\n It\u2019s just spontaneous writing… straight from the heart…genuine stuff …like it is meant to be.<\/p>\n Your mails come across as too planned… maybe a bit fake.<\/p>\n Of course they are beautiful but then…\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cAnd we feel at a disadvantage with our own seemingly ordinary mails.<\/p>\n So we wait for a proper time when we can really really sit down and write you a long beautiful mail as well.<\/p>\n But then that doesn\u2019t happen… and we do not seem to find the time or opportunity to write out that mail.<\/p>\n So we often send out a quick reply (iPhone\/smartphone\/Blackberry!) while waiting for a train or something like that…. promising ourselves that next time…<\/p>\n And while we are still squirming …there it is again: another flourish mail from you!<\/p>\n For heaven\u2019s sake…!\u201d<\/p>\n No, not everybody says this. Many enjoy my mails comfortably as much as I myself enjoy composing and sending them.<\/p>\n And they have no guilt feeling about not replying…. that\u2019s good.<\/p>\n When comparisons are made about my mails and theirs I often answer: \u201cOK, so you have your youthful good looks and I have my mails! Let\u2019s keep it that way!!<\/p>\n I do not make comparisons of\u00a0style or eloquence of content.<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n A mail is a connection that says that we love each other… \u00a0and we wish to stay connected. That is the important thing.<\/p>\n The pictures and the poems and the music are a bonus…. unnecessary, yes, but a bonus.<\/p>\n Yes, I love you…. and when you read my mails and smile, I know that you love me too.<\/p>\n Of course I really love seeing your name in my inbox. And I go through your mails more than once, happy to know that you have received my last mail and happy to hear whatever latest news you might send me about yourself.<\/p>\n Thought I\u2019d let you know…..<\/p>\n All the rest going on as usual and I live peacefully, though busily, from day to day trying to delight in the ordinary in whatever form it comes across to me.<\/p>\n Lots of peace and enjoyment to you as well in all that comes across to you.<\/p>\n Take care. Love, Terry<\/p>\n terryq@xaviers.edu<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n
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