hello, again!
Hey! How are you? hope things have been well on your end. I am writing to you using my purple logitech keyboard. I felt the special need to mention that because it has to be one of my best purchases of 2022. It took me soooooo long to buy this teeny keyboard - looking back the overthinking does not make sense.
I know it has been a long time since we last spoke. I have so much to say.
I recently spent 4 days with one of my best friends - someone who I hadn't had a chance to meet properly since college but someone with whom things have remained the same. Before COVID, we had this religious email chain of life updates, something that I emulated after doing since 2016 (and still going semi-strong) with my other friend who had just moved to Oxford (hi, brinda!).
It is funny because the two people that I mentioned above are people I've had barely any physical interaction with since 2017 but still know some of the most intimate details about my life, since.
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If you ask me why I studied creative writing in college - my answer would range from - "I didn't know what else to study" to "I loved reading so thought learning how to write would give me more insight into the craft".
People often ask me this question because it is so far from what I currently do, professionally. While stuck in the daily grind of processes, operations, profits, reviews and zoom calls - I often day dream about the times I would sit in my college library's computer lab in front of the giant imac screen and eagerly write to my friends.
There is something so immersive about the act of communicating with someone via email/letters because of the lack of immediacy. I can stretch each of our thoughts/feelings/experiences without being interrupted. It is almost as if - by writing to someone I am conversing with myself.
This is different from journaling because there is a hope of a response. The possibilities of the responses could multiply perspectives, memories, ideas in me. I love that!
This way my entire life feels like my creative writing workshops in college because I get inputs sandwiched with critiques but it is entirely my choice to consider them. amazing! win-win.
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I did feel like I had stopped expressing my most authentic self in the last 2 years because I had not written to you (or anything in general).
Here's hoping I keep at it and you keep reading.
signing off with my word for 2023: agency.
Stay cool, stay awesome.
Love and light,
Miti