Our Mailboxes

I have been living alone since my whole family migrated in Canada to concentrate on the family business we have out there. I chose to stay in our old house instead because I am the one who takes care of the farm and I just cannot afford to leave my cows for good. When I had our old house renovated last year, my parents told me to put a mailbox in front and at the back gate of the house. Ever since  they have been away, we have been sending mails to each other rather than talking over the phone or chatting in the internet. Even if they say that is an old fashion way to do especially today that we are living in a more high-technology, we prefer to still write letters to one another because it is more sweeter and we can relay our messages privately and sincerely.

I remember my mom every time she checks on their Mailboxes, she has been telling me how excited she is whenever she sees mails coming from me. She never gets tired of reading my notes to them every now and then. There was even a time when they suddenly spent a week in an apartment for my father’s seminar, she still asked me to send my mails to them in the apartment mail boxes one month before they got in there. She said she never wanted to miss a message from me that is why. Funny, but it always makes me smile and more eager to send my mom letters to show her how important they are to me. Through letters, we make each other’s closer even if we are miles away.