Relationship & cell phone

My dearest you,
Its long since I heard from you… Hope you in sound health…. (scratch, scratch, dump). The floor littered with folded papers, a soft blush on the face, a desire to communicate to the most important person of your life. 1000 kilometres away someone sitting in a similar set up tries to pen down his romance but unable to do it successfully, he too have similar scene on the floor. But is this scene familiar to us? I don’t think you have seen or experienced such a scene in your recent past, perhaps the only place will be films and serials (even they don’t show these anymore). But what was the scene? Two lovers, trying to express their love to each other.
The girl can’t concentrate in her physics class. She thinks why is the professor blabbering on frequencies. She keeps checking her wrist watch, 3:55 pm, five more minutes to go. But her frequencies are getting stronger as the ticking progresses. She feels like running back home and shutting herself up alone in her room and read her letter that her friend just gave her. After a long months wait her letter has come to her friends address but the white envelope with red and blue borders boldly screams her name, Ms Smita Sen. She runs back to her home and opens the letter to read in the privacy of her room.
Yes it is her letter, that special letter that comes once a month in the same colour bordered envelope bearing her name and the words air mail. Career and success has taken her love away from her in the far off city of London. And its only this one day in month that she gets to hear from him. She waits restlessly the whole month thinking when will her friend come and give her, a letter in a familiar envelop.
She blushes to read how beautiful she is, how wonderful she is and how this person loves her. She takes her pen and notepad out to write the reply, and starts with, my dear you, hope you are in sound heath.
These are some expressions which we don’t hear anymore these days. Do we? As far as my memory goes, at least not in the last 10 years. Today, we do not wait for a month for a letter, nor do we expect anyone to write pages. A similar Smita today doesn’t bother if her boyfriend is in London or New York. Coz she knows he is just a phone call away. He can contact her anytime and even text her. Its easy for her too using her small mobile phone only she has to pay 8 rupees a minute. That’s ok for her.
How have we changed with the technology? How dependent we are on mobile phones. And how a small little gadget has disintegrated a whole culture of letter writing? Today who sits with pen and paper? Who thinks of writing down two lines to their dear ones? Reaching everyone is so easy these days. But what about the poetry of love on paper which you can preserve forever. The whole culture has been removed. These days when do we send letters? We type all boring formal letters for official works only. Which I am sure no one will like to go through. The officials do so coz they need to probably be forced to.
I have tried writing a lot to my boyfriend, but still I resort to my Reliance free phone, coz I never find time and patience to write letters, and even to email. I am so dependent on my phone. These days no power only in Bangalore so I can’t charge my phone and without phone so many probs I need to face. Mom ant reach me I cant reach anyone, it seems I am alone in some far away island.