The other day I received a handwritten letter in the mail from one of my best friends in Oregon. It wasn’t very long and it’s contents weren’t particularly exciting, but I loved it. I read it three times. I felt like Queen Victoria or Anne Shirley or one of the March sisters. There is just something special about receiving a handwritten letter just for you from a good friend. It’s better than a thousand notifications or friend requests or e-mails. It’s definitely on my Favorite Things list, right up there with the Lord of the Rings and homemade Mac and Cheese. The only problem is that handwritten, just-for-you letters are so uncommon now. Maybe that’s what makes them so special, but I think that if snail mail was the only form of communication I would still be just as excited to receive one as I am now.
I love reading old books, where the characters write extremely long, detailed letters to each other. It inspires me. I know it’s so much fun to receive a nice long letter that will last for a while, so I try to write really long (non-boring) letters for other people. That’s almost more fun than getting a detailed letter. In the online world however, I fail miserably. My typical (boring) online correspondence will go like this:
Hey!!!! What’s up?
Nm u?
Sammmee… lotsa homework
Bleh. Me too 😛
So are you going to _____?
Ya, maybe if I can get out of school. Hope so!
Kewl 🙂
Bad spelling, lots of smileys (that’s not such a bad thing actually), and nothing to talk about. I know better! I TRY not to be a stereotype, but hey. I’m a teenager in a texting world. It’s tough.
So I’m going to start writing a LOT more letters to other people. Interesting, informative, timely letters. Emphasis on timely… I often write the letters, but fail to send them. But if I do make my letters interesting, informative and timely just think! I could start a fad! Plus, if I wrote to two or three people a week, and they each responded and sent a letter as soon as they received mine, I could receive at least one letter a week! That would be awesome!
