I still have some postcards of New Year's greetings, mostly from the 1980s and 1990s, mostly sent to me by former classmates and friends.
The font and expression of each postcard are never the same. Some are decent, and some are dragons flying and phoenix dancing. The content includes greetings, blessings, lifelong events, and annunciations to upgrade yourself to become a mother. Every time I look at it, I will clearly recall what they once looked like, and the time we spent together, there are always full of memories and warmth in my heart.
Every year on the eve of the New Year's Day spring festival, I will also go to the newsstand or Xinhua Bookstore to carefully select postcards, and then from a number of postcards, the color, picture, meaning and other general classification, solemnly write the zip code, address, and name of classmates and friends.
The words of blessing cannot be the same, after all, my classmates have them from elementary school to college. Groups are different, and the relationship between relatives and intimacy is also different, so I have to carefully consider the blessings of each postcard, not only to express my blessings for the New Year, but also to express my thoughts about my friends.
I can't remember exactly what I wrote back then, but I remember that when I wrote it, I typed a number of drafts. On the one hand, it is to make your expression smoother and more sincere, and on the other hand, you also practice words by the way, so that your words will not look ugly on postcards.
Write a dozen postcards in one go, then go to the post office and buy a dozen stamps for four cents a day, carefully paste them in the upper right corner of the postcards, and finally solemnly throw them into the postbox. When I walked out of the door of the post office, my heart was also very comfortable, because I brought my most sincere wishes and thoughts to my friends and classmates.
Now I still have a number of postcards that I didn't use up. With the development of the times, postcards have also withdrawn from the stage of history and become the most precious memories of our generation.
Now for the New Year, we can convey our New Year's wishes through our mobile phones. Blessing seconds arrive, less of the twists and turns on the road that year, convenient and fast, but lack of temperature. How many people have now read and replied to the New Year's greetings received through group sending? You forwarded mine, I forwarded you, some of them are not even their own names, how much sincerity does such a blessing bring?
I still miss the era when postcards were used to convey New Year's greetings, and when I received postcards from my classmates and friends, I would look at them repeatedly for a few days, imagining and savoring his or her expression and mood when he or she first wrote these words from the familiar font.
And now, the blessings in WeChat may be more than the blessings of the postcards of that year, and many of them are copied out after repeatedly conceiving and deliberating, but the standard Song font, the same expression, the fancy picture, in addition to the cold and dazzling, the rest have no feelings!
