Pen pals

Hello my loyal readers,

Today I am going to tell you about my pen pals. I have 2 pen pals atm. A pen pal is someone that you write to regularly that you have not seen before. I joined an international pen pal site called interpals. I joined it back in February. You make a profile and list your interests, requests, favourite films, books and music etc and you can find like-minded people and message them. I have been messaging this one guy for about 2 months now and we’ve been messaging very regularly sometimes multiple times a day. We went from messaging on the site to emailing and it’s nice. I look forward to reading his messages and love the surprise when I notice that I’ve got new mail in my inbox. It reminds me a lot of the film ‘you’ve got mail.’ Cheesy I know!

My other pen pal is a girl that lives in the same city as me. It’s really cool how we both live in the same city and even have mutual acquaintances and we talk about places in our city that we’ve been to. When I go into town I look around and see if I can spot her. It’s silly cos I live in such a big city but just in case we bump into each other, I keep a look out.

Anyway, what I dislike about pen pals especially online pen pals is that we talk regularly, send each other cute innocent pictures and quickly become such a big part of each other’s lives, in the fact that we think of our pen pal during the day and what they’re up to and can’t wait to see what they’ve replied with. It’s all new and exciting but unfortunately we have never seen each other and may never do. I’d really like to meet both my pen pals. Especially the guy as we have become close, as close as you can be with the written word. It’s hard cos I don’t really know much about him and everything that I do know it what he tells me and that’s such a small part of the overall picture. It’s sad to think that I may never meet him, even after writing to each other for so long.  He doesn’t seem too keen to meet me. I think it may be fear that we may not get along and our expectations may be very different to the reality.

It’s strange to think that there is a person thousands of miles away that I have never seen, who is a part of my life. I don’t know how he walks, what his mannerisms are like, whether he is loud, shy, quiet, outgoing, does he smile a lot? What makes him cry? What he smells like? These are all things I may never know. 

P.S. Thank you to my two new followers for choosing to following me :) And as always thank you to my loyal long time followers :)