Imagine walking into office and seeing that someone left a nice note at your desk. 

Smiling?

Now imagine someone sending you a letter: a handwritten epistle of anything from a "thank you" in a little more word, to, "hey, have a good day?", or, "I have been meaning to tell you years have passed by, but you are still on my mind, and I think you will be there a little over forever".

Won’t it make you smile? Won’t it turn your worse mood into a good one? Well, it will make me smile. It will make a difference in my life at that moment.

Even when we have all these platforms where we can type to our hearts content, how is it that we never end up writing more than a few lines, sometimes words? Because if I speak for myself, I will love some of that excitement of writing a letter, then the happiness of posting one, and then the delicious anticipation of expecting one.

In this age of texts, messages, emails and constant other platforms where we stay in touch and are always updated, are we actually connected?

To me, it’s a bit of a paradox. What’s supposed to connect people and make them more social, disconnects them from real people and connects them to real virtual people. At a dinner party, you wouldn’t have seen all the guests reading the books but now, you see almost all of them checking their Facebook feed at the dinner table.

We’re all living our lives, in a cell phone screen size.

Emails have replaced handwritten letters and memes have replaced cards, blogs have replaced diaries, Love is looked on tinder and breakups happen on Whats App.

We live in a time where taking pictures of food instead of eating them is more enjoyable. No matter how hungry you are,” camera always eats first.” Not taking pictures of our day-to-day experiences and posting them on social media (I do the same though) equals to not having lived that experience at all. We say we need to live in the moment. “Be in the present” is our motto but if our present is all about posting pictures and wait for likes and comments then when do we live?

With all the friends and followers on social media, we are missing out on real friends and real relationships. Being able to connect and communicate anytime at any place, we are losing the ability to be alone- with our thoughts, with ourselves. As soon as we’re alone or we feel like we’re alone, we reach out to our pocket and take out our smartphone and there we go! We’re not alone anymore.

Although many would argue that online interactions are with other real people on the other side, but the truth is that it cannot beat face to face interaction with real feelings and not with “emoji’s”!