The Handwritten Letter
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In the digital age, she still wrote letters.
Not emails. Not texts. Actual letters — ink, paper, folded emotions.
When I asked her why, she said, “Because fingers speak more truth than thumbs.”
She once wrote a letter to her younger self — “I forgive you for not knowing better.”
That line stayed with me.
When we lose ourselves, sometimes all it takes is a letter. Not from someone else, but from the version of us that still believed — in stars, in love, in ourselves.
Write to yourself today. You might meet someone you forgot you were.
Rajat Chandra Sarmah
Guwahati, Assam, India
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