Farewell My Beloved Postbox

Environment changes as development take place. During the olden days, it was very difficult for the people to send letters from one place to another. There were no proper post offices in the remote places. In order to send letters to the family, relatives or friends, people had to go to the post office by walking.

I can still remember the troubles that the people of Dorokha Dungkhag had in the olden days. In order to post our letters, we had to walk one whole day to reach the post office from our village. It was a difficult time for the people in the villages. During tragedies it was hard to inform the faraway family members and the relatives as it took a day to reach the post office. Hence getting help was a difficult process.

As a student, I enjoyed sending letters to my friends, family and the relatives. Making pal-friends was the most entertaining thing in the olden days. We used to send letters to unknown people and make them our friends. It was fun to write letters and articles. Through these practices, our language, writing, grammar and spellings used to develop.

Unlike olden days, now it has become very easy to connect with people, with the development of social media (mobile phone, telephone, wireless, etc). We don’t have to go from one place to another to send our letters.

During olden days we had worries and wait for days just to get our responds and sometimes even it used to take months for our letters to get delivered. As of now, if we sent message through our mobile phone then there comes a delivery report that makes us feel relief, it also saves our time and is economically cheap. The most interesting thing is that we can meet different people through social media and can expose ourselves to the world.

We used to know the value of relationships during olden days because we didn’t get to meet our family, relatives and the friends for years but now we can call our families whenever we want. Social media connects people every minute but the bond between families and friends are weakening simultaneously. Relation this days has become like the network, if there is signal, it’s strong and if the signal is gone then the bond becomes weak. Therefore olden days are always golden.