Date: 17/06/2026
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“The best things in life are not things.” — Art Buchwald
While searching for an old document, a woman discovered a postcard tucked away in a drawer.
The picture on the front showed a distant coastline. The message on the back was brief.
“Thinking of you. Hope all is well.”
Nothing extraordinary.
Yet she sat quietly for several minutes holding it.
The postcard had arrived decades earlier, long before instant messages and video calls. Back then, a handwritten note carried a special weight. It meant someone had paused their journey, found a card, written a few words and taken the time to send them.
The postcard reminded her that communication was once slower but often more deliberate.
Today, we exchange hundreds of messages with a touch of a screen.
Yet a simple handwritten card can still evoke emotions that technology sometimes struggles to capture.
Perhaps it is because effort leaves an imprint.
A few thoughtful words, written by hand, can travel not only across distances but also across years.
And sometimes, hidden in a drawer, they wait patiently to be discovered again.
Rajat Chandra Sarmah
Guwahati, Assam, India
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