Letter Writing
Sunday, June 15th, 2003I got to thinking about how nobody writes anymore. At least it seems that way to me. We all use email and then delete the emails when they get old. Or we call. Nobody sends snail mail letters anymore. My mailbox only has bills and paper-spam, with the excpetion of birthday and Christmas cards, I never see a hand-addressed envelope. The “art of writing” is dead. It’s even been on the news how historians are going to have a hard time doing their job when most correspondance is going to digital, and how cursive handwriting is dying as well.
So, I thought it’d be fun to pick up some cute note cards and send out some “letters”.
Well, my hand cramped up after the first paragraph, ahahaha. No kidding. That used to happen only after hours of homework. Also, my cursive is AWFUL. It was never “neat”, but at least I could mainly write in a straight line. Not anymore. It’s big then small, crooked and full of mistakes (where’s my backspace key???).
There should be some kind of “letter writer’s guild” or something, some kind of organization dedicated to keeping the art of letter-writing alive. Maybe there is. I should look.
Anyway, I’ve written two letters and one of the most astounding things to me is how LONG it took to write them. Each one would have been one minute or two minutes if I’d have typed it.
Ah well. It was fun anyway. I hope to keep it up.
UPDATE: Here’s a story on msn about how historians will have a hard time recording history if there are no papers to read and reference.
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Am I the only one who does this? I start a book, then start another one before I ever finish the first one. My shelf is FULL of books I never finished. I suppose it’s normal to not “finish” a three-inch thick bible on Photoshop7, but you’d think I’d finish:
