Urban illiterate

Like many other people, I loved my mother a lot, since childhood, I walked holding her hand, telling her even when I went to pee, I was clingy. She has always been my person, my mum.  As a toddler life is all chill and fun, only sleep, eat and play. At that age everyone is your friend and no one is really your enemy; you cry when your father gets a clean shave or when your mother loves your sibling more, to tease you. The easy part of life ends there. Then you enter your school, as a child pretty much unaware of how the world functions. You get some enemies at this stage but nothing much personal. Your mother is still your best friend and knows all about your life. Waking up to go to school every day, class politics and some bullying maybe, some struggles add-in, but all good otherwise. Then comes, the nightmare, the truth and face off with brutality, the teenage years. You push away most people, things and habits that you loved doing just a year ago. You have crushes, heart breaks...

 Do you ever wonder to get knowledge and experience of a different culture from yours, like a whole other world, if you do, like I did, I may have something for you. The other day scrolling through Play Store for some fun game, I came across this app. It looked cool and to be honest kinda shady, I thought to myself this has got to be some Ai generated thing. I looked through the comments they were all looking cheesy and unreal as Ai is.  But I went ahead and downloaded it anyways. Guess what, I was wrong. The app was genuine with people actually writing out to others, in different parts of the world. They all shared their vivid experiences, all about their lives. It was really unexpected.  The name of the app was SLOWLY, it helps you to connect with friends from different countries. It is a pen pal app, you can choose your preferences and it gives a real delivery time experience like real letters. It feels so true. If you live let's say in America and your pen pal is from...