(Finally posting a draft from a long time ago)
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A Post Script is what comes after the letter.
For things you forgot while you were talking about other things but things that nevertheless have to be said and cannot be kept to oneself.
For things that are remembered because everything else still seemed to be missing something essential until a PS was added.
And sometimes, for things too mundane to be said while talking of spring and cherry trees. Like getting groceries or picking up the kids from daycare. For the ending after the happily ever after.
But there are also times when we write long letters just so we may add a Post Script in the end, as a carefully crafted careless afterthought, pretending to not care about it's subject matter, when that in itself is the reason the letter exists in the first place.
I've in fact seen the most important of conversations happen in the PS's of letters, while discussing the weather and tedious monotonies of life in the main text.
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PS: You were looking beautiful yesterday.
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PS: Thank you. And thank you for helping me out. I owe you one :)
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PS: Not a problem at all. :) Though a Thank You does sound better with coffee...
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PS: This Sunday, 5 pm, where we met last?
You see what I mean? The Post Script - helping humans communicate their feelings more effectively since forever. A PS simply is a beautiful thing.
If letters were life experiences, post scripts would be what was sometimes needed to make them complete.
So it is no surprise that many of my letters invariably end with a PS; because I am unable to end them without remembering something more after I've ended them.
Speculations of the I-know-this-is-it-but-I-won't-really-believe-myself kind tell me that this is because on these occasions, I'm too scared to say the things I want to say most.
And also because the post script, by virtue of being a PS, cannot be in the main body of the letter and was probably thought of by an equally forgetful fellow human being, to ease all our letter writing woes.
Post scripts are powerful. They get to make or ruin perfectly crafted words the way sudden showers make or ruin nice Autumn evenings, depending on where you're sitting. And it is this power that makes me spend more time crafting my PS's than I spend in writing the actual letter sometimes.
The next time you're writing someone a letter (and I hope that is soon! God knows we need letter writing to start trending ASAP or hopeless romantics like me are doomed to a life of wistful longing), remember to add the PS. It makes quite the difference :)
So dear PS,
Thank you for completing my letters every now and then. Feels nice to know someone's got your back every time you forget something important in life :)
Love,
S
PS: I love you :P
PPS: I just had to say that. It was begging to be written. Really.
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A Post Script is what comes after the letter.
For things you forgot while you were talking about other things but things that nevertheless have to be said and cannot be kept to oneself.
For things that are remembered because everything else still seemed to be missing something essential until a PS was added.
And sometimes, for things too mundane to be said while talking of spring and cherry trees. Like getting groceries or picking up the kids from daycare. For the ending after the happily ever after.
But there are also times when we write long letters just so we may add a Post Script in the end, as a carefully crafted careless afterthought, pretending to not care about it's subject matter, when that in itself is the reason the letter exists in the first place.
I've in fact seen the most important of conversations happen in the PS's of letters, while discussing the weather and tedious monotonies of life in the main text.
.
.
.
.
PS: You were looking beautiful yesterday.
.
.
.
.
PS: Thank you. And thank you for helping me out. I owe you one :)
.
.
.
PS: Not a problem at all. :) Though a Thank You does sound better with coffee...
.
.
PS: This Sunday, 5 pm, where we met last?
You see what I mean? The Post Script - helping humans communicate their feelings more effectively since forever. A PS simply is a beautiful thing.
If letters were life experiences, post scripts would be what was sometimes needed to make them complete.
So it is no surprise that many of my letters invariably end with a PS; because I am unable to end them without remembering something more after I've ended them.
Speculations of the I-know-this-is-it-but-I-won't-really-believe-myself kind tell me that this is because on these occasions, I'm too scared to say the things I want to say most.
And also because the post script, by virtue of being a PS, cannot be in the main body of the letter and was probably thought of by an equally forgetful fellow human being, to ease all our letter writing woes.
Post scripts are powerful. They get to make or ruin perfectly crafted words the way sudden showers make or ruin nice Autumn evenings, depending on where you're sitting. And it is this power that makes me spend more time crafting my PS's than I spend in writing the actual letter sometimes.
The next time you're writing someone a letter (and I hope that is soon! God knows we need letter writing to start trending ASAP or hopeless romantics like me are doomed to a life of wistful longing), remember to add the PS. It makes quite the difference :)
So dear PS,
Thank you for completing my letters every now and then. Feels nice to know someone's got your back every time you forget something important in life :)
Love,
S
PS: I love you :P
PPS: I just had to say that. It was begging to be written. Really.
