my grey folder

just lying awake wondering....wondering how many people are wondering the same thing.

i used to avidly collect letters sent by my father during his trips, i would arrange them date-wise and keep it in a grey folder....i miss collecting those carefully selected, textured, coloured, sometimes strange shaped letters, i miss seeing human handwriting. emails are just so impersonal, everytime i read an email, i imagine a Terminator-like voice reciting the letter! can you imagine how absurd that must be feeling??

i treasure handwriting, infact i treasure any personalised item or items that make me nostalgic....in my grey folder i also have the following :

1. little messages that RJ wrote to me on CCD napkins
2. the wrapper of a 5* chocolate bar which a dear friend gave me
3. the wrapper of a Temptations (rum n raisin) bar which RJ bought me on valentine's day
4. passes of every single fest i've been to
5. a pass autographed by bombay vikings
6. tickets to the 1st movie RJ and i ever saw together
7. a newspaper cutout which got me the Black & Blue CD 2 days before it's official release in India
8. a pass to the prom i went with O
9. volunteer badges from school
10. a small scrap of paper with my name doodled on it
11. and the most precious - a Rs. 100 note which RJ gave me from his 1st ,official, hard earned money.