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Do you write letters to anyone?
I do.
Writing a letter is so wonderful in our digital age. It allows time to think as words are scrawled out one letter at a time. If you're like me, your hand starts to cramp after the first paragraph and you have to shake the cramp out of your hand repeatedly. Mistakes aren't auto-corrected, you cross them out, write oops in parenthesis and keep going. Reading a hand written letter is just as neat. Your eye slides over loping and haphazard scribblings and you think, wow, this came from so-and-so's own hand. No one else could have written the letters just so and crafted the letter in just such a way. It's so much more personal.
I love it!
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Sasha said…
Wonderful idea. :) I haven't written letters in a long time. Because of the snail-mail speed it feels inefficient to do that. Kind of: "you'll read this when it's in the past, by then we'll have spoken to each other a few times, so what's the point..." But still, it's personal and nice.
June 12, 2012 at 9:41 AM
Emily H. said…
It's an interesting phenomenon to write something that will be in the past by the time someone reads it. I like it, though, because it allows me to think from a different perspective. If something is bothering me it might seem like a big deal right now but in a week's time...? By then it isn't a big deal anymore so why carry on about it now?
June 12, 2012 at 3:24 PM
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