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I feel so happy when I see mails from my pen pals that I immediately want to respond.
Fed up of all the tensions at home and the lockdown, I started looking for ways to pass time and find some like-minded people to talk to. With all my travelling and work, I never had time for friends and in last 4 years we drifted apart.
Then I found about pen palling, there’s nothing new in this, people all over the world have written letters, but now this old custom is back with a twist.
There are many websites for pen palling, but I found ‘Global Pen Friends’ to be the best. You create your profile and it is verified by a human within 24 hours, any update to profile is also verified and only then you can start contacting people.
Search for friends with common interests and write to them, if they like your profile they will write back. I found many friends there and with everyone I have a different bond and something different to talk about.
Earlier we just talked, shared experiences but slowly we started sharing photos and exchanged our email IDs.
There are so many good things coming out of it.
It has been so long since I wrote a letter or an email which was not for a school project or exam. I feel so happy when I see mails from my pen pals that I immediately want to respond.
During this lockdown I had lost all energy to do anything exciting and things at home weren’t good either, but now I want to do something interesting just so that I have something new to talk about with my pen pals.
I was once a very talkative girl who got married in a family where daughter-in-laws are supposed to stay silent, these pen-pals gave me that chance to try being myself even if its for a few minutes.
Though they don’t know about this, I don’t want to share my sadness and depress anyone. I see their cities through the photographs they send and the memories they share.
See I won’t say that its all good, there are chances that some profiles may be fake, so please ensure you do not exchange any personal information in the very beginning, just simply talk and listen, it is a really good feeling.
I miss those days when I would return from school and tell everything that happened during the day to my mom while having lunch, these letters and emails are something like that. I hope you guys try it out!
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UP Boards Topper Prachi Nigam was trolled on social media for her facial hair; our obsession with appearance is harsh on young minds.
Prachi Nigam’s photo has been doing the rounds on social media for the right reasons. Well, scratch that- I wish the above statement were true. This 15-year-old girl should ideally be revelling in her spectacular achievement of scoring a whopping 98.05% and topping her tenth-grade boards. But oddly enough, along with her marks, it’s something else that garners more attention – her facial hair.
While the trolls are driving themselves giddy by mocking this girl who hasn’t even completed her school yet, the ones who are taking her side are going one step ahead – they are sharing her photoshopped pictures, sans the facial hair, looking nothing less than a celebrity with captions saying – “Prachi Nigam, ten years later”.
Doctors have already diagnosed her with PCOD in their comments, based on photographic evidence. While we have names for people shamed for their weight – body shaming, for their skin colour- racism, for their age- age shaming, for being a female- sexism, this category of shaming where one faces criticism for their appearance has no name. With that, it also has zero shame attached to it.
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