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.
