Opening Up

It’s great to have a penpal whom you can talk to about all your problems. It is often difficult to communicate your problems to your close friends. In fact it is easier to talk to an online friend. I have felt it myself. It is easier to open up to a person who is not sitting face to face with you. A friend of mine, Anthony has been talking to me for quite some time through Penpal-friends. He has become more of an agony aunt for me rather than a friend. Whenever I fall into trouble or have a personal problem I turn to him for advice. I remember once when I had a terrible fight with one of my brothers. The situation was actually very silly and childish. He was seeing a girl whom I didn’t like.

I felt the girl to be to over the top and didn’t want him to get involved with her. However he refused to listen to me. We had a terrible fight one day and decided not to talk to each other. I was very angry with him and this made me utterly frustrated with every other day. I once told all this to Anthony. He replied that he knew exactly what I was going through. Every day he told me to go and apologize to my brother but I refused to do so. However I finally relented and said sorry. My brother meanwhile had realized his mistake and apologized too. Thanks to my penpal Anthony who brought my brother closer to me.

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Helping to Meet New Friends

Penpal-Friends helps me to meet new friends and to stay connected with the old ones. I am a net geek. In short I like to spend all my waking hours in front of my PC. I have numerous online friends and keep in touch with them regularly. Whether it’s Paul from Australia, Neil from Canada or Liu from Japan, I have several penpals from different parts of the world and Penpal-Friends helps me to connect and reconnect with them on a daily basis. It becomes so much easier to make friends with somebody completely unknown with the help of this site.

You simply need to log in and browse through the several profiles and you get to know about so many people. I, for one, come to know about so many different cultures at one go. My Japanese friend shares recipes with me and I try them out while I learn a lot about guitar from my Australian friend who is a great guitarist. He talks to me about the small little details about playing the guitar and it’s a treat talking to him. Neil is working as a bank agent at one of the well known companies in Canada. He talks to me about the various kinds of people he has to deal with in his profession. He is a really funny guy and his conversations are really interesting. If this site was not there to help I would not have been able to get such nice penpals.

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Deciding To Quit

I worked as a clerk for sometime at a reputable institution. However I was not happy with my job profile. It was one of my childhood dreams to become a creative artist. I was really confused whether I should quit my job and seek for professional artistic training full time. I asked for advice from some penpals of mine whom I had been talking to for quite some now. One of my penpals Harry is a special friend. I had once given him with a Rolling Stones CD that was not available in the market.

He had been really grateful back then and we have been talking regularly through mails and chats since them. It was Harry who told me that I should make up my mind about my future. He said it was my decision whether I wanted to do just a job or do a job that I liked. Harry convinced me to quit because he told me that I would never be happy this way. So instead of sitting cooped up in an office I decided to pursue my dreams as per Harry’s advice. Now I am doing what I love. I am learning the techniques of modern art from an institute and am also taking classes of new students. It is not only contributing to my pocket money but I am also satisfied with what I do. Thanks to Harry my penpal who had convinced me to take the right decision back then.

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Sharing Recipes Online

I am a real food addict and I like to try different kinds of recipes from all across the globe. Whether it is on the internet or in recipe books I like to try out different cuisines from various countries. This interest of mine often lands me into trouble. To be precise some of them don’t turn out to be edible finally. However I am till very enthusiastic about cooking new kind of stuff every day. One of my penpal friends Mary shares this habit. We often swap recipes with each other.

It is a great feeling when you come to know that someone you don’t know is almost like you. It’s great sharing your experiences with this special person. For example Mary and I share our experiences in the kitchen. I tell her about the accidents I have had to handle because of my forgetfulness. Mary on the other had tells me about people’s reactions when they eat food she cooks. We have had so many animating discussions with each other that she has become one of my closest friends now. If it was not for penpals I wouldn’t have known Mary at all.

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Found My Soul Mate

I was a teenager at that time. One night when I was browsing the net and was chatting with my friends from pen pals, I came across a profile of someone called Jack. He was an ex student in the same institute where I have always wanted to join after my graduation. When I approached him, he was very nice, decent and helpful. He promised me to provide me with all the detail requirements. And he did.

With his guidelines I could find the proper channels and applied. I was admitted to the institution without facing any problems. I later found that he was actually my senior and we were from the same departments.

Gradually our attachment grew and we exchanged our photographs. In his photograph, he was a cute young boy, with a cute ponytail in his head, whom anybody will fall for. And I was not an exception. I fell in love with that guy but was scared to ask him out on a date. What if he disliked me after we met? However one day he finally asked me out. From then on we kept on meeting here and there. In the following month he took me out for a candle light dinner where he formally asked for my hand in marriage. I am now happily married to him for more than a year.

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My Friend Helped Me To Get A Rare CD

Kaustav is my friend from India with whom I met through pen pals. It is the love for music that compels us to chat with each other quiet often. He is very interested in western classical music and he is especially crazy about compositions by Beethoven. I often send CDs to him.

It is known to him that I have a special fascination for eastern classical music. The Indian ragas, I feel, have a special appeal, which you can hardly find anywhere. He is excellent in keyboards and often sends me his piece of composition, which he plays on his keyboard. He also let’s me hear whenever he creates any new composition and wants my feedback.

One day when we were chatting about instrumental music, I told him that I was desperately searching for the album of east-west fusion music where Ravi Shankar, the legendary Sitar player and Yehudi Menuhin, another legend in violin, performed together. I could not find it anywhere. In the next week I got a sweet surprise through courier. It carried a CD of the album. It was Kaustav who sent me the CD.

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Getting An Old Friend Back

It was during those days when I did not get enough time to get in touch with old friends except some chatting at night. After a tiring day in the office, my penpals were my only refreshment. I used to chat with some of the friends whom I got to know through penpals. I was very choosy about friend requests as I was not interested to chat with anybody and everybody.

One day I got a mail from someone called Mary. When I searched her profile through pen pals, I found that she was from the very school where I used to study in my childhood. As my parents relocated to some other city, I lost all contacts with my old friends and was admitted to another school.

While walking down memory lane, I accepted the friend request and replied to the mail. We exchanged mails and started chatting regularly. After few such sessions, it was disclosed that Mary was that sweet girl who used to sit beside me in school and used to be my best friend .I later found out that her office was exactly opposite my office building. Thanks to Penpal-Friends, I got my old buddy back.

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