The social is developing, the letter is decreasing. Everybody keep in touch together by the social network, such as: facebook, zalo, viber, skype,.. I don’t realize the mean of love , the care that people give to someone. The past, anyone also do it by a letter. This reason I like collect the stamp.
A letter is always enclosed by the stamp that has different shape, color, image. So, my father is usually go away from my home, he write a letter per a week or the more if he feel homesick. At that time, I have been a child, I didn’t understand what was the letter write, my mom helped reading loudly for me. I accustomed to the mean of the letter by the way : remember the stamp is attached to outside that letter. After, I grew up a little, I watched the date in a stamp, I knew when my dad wrote letter again, when he come back with me. However , I continued finding the differences in a stamp., it was becoming a habit.
My hobby is beginning to take shape in my mind when I collect the stamp. I hate the stamps having a vessel image because it make me imagine the bad day that my father was sick and nobody take care is written in the letter, he may be feeling alone, so I hate the vessel’s image and it’s sound in the fact. I like see the sky, especially is blue sky: the cloud or reflection of the sea. This is the signal stamp of the date that my dad will be come back home, my mother will cook many the delicious food, my grandmother will go to around the house to wait him, everybody are happy. Onetime, I am arranging my stamp collection, my father come in and smile, he said: “ You should paint a thumb ( like) in the good stamp, the sad icon if you think it isn’t good. You will never mistake.” When I miss him, I bring all the letters that dad send mom and paint the more icon in.
Now, I still save stamp collection in a small box, some of in that is failed by the long time. It’ s my memory when I miss someone, miss something that not appear beside me anytime. I am not only save my hobby not only save the emotions of my parents in the past.