Last day of the second week of the A to Z April 2013 Challenge.
So today my L word is "Letter".
Saving a letter from an old friend doesn’t exist anymore. Everything is
texted or mailed. – James Caan
Handwritten letters are so rare
nowadays. Now in this technology era, the use of FB, whatsapp, mail, instant
messages and all just wiped out the essence of hand written long letters.
Actually even the long personal mails are also disappearing. This is the time
of instant messages. You wanna know something, or inform something or just ask
how a person is you just have to check whether he’s online if not just ping him
in FB or text him.
We can say nice words in e-mail
or text, but there’s something more special about sending and receiving a
handwritten note. The personal touch tells the other person that they mean much
more to us coz we took the time to actual Write a letter, stick a stamp and go and deliver it either through
the snail mail or in person. E-mailing seems much easier, no?
When I was a kid, I also wished
to have a pen pal. But never got a chance to write and get a friend like that.
And the last time I wrote a real letter, other than those notes in greeting
cards, was to my mom when I was in the boarding school. After that it was mails
and then the social networking sites launched. But I made sure to include a
small hand written note whenever I send a greeting card to anyone. But nowadays
even that changed to e-cards. The word personalized has actually lost its
meaning. Nothing is personalized now, everything is just for namesake. We do
love our dear ones. But taking an ample time from our busy schedule to write
letters to our people seems to be a real big thing.
So when you gonna write a letter
to your parents/better half/sister/brother or friend and post it?
I love the rebelliousness of snail mail, and I love anything that can
arrive with a postage stamp. There’s something about that person’s breath and
hands on the letter. – Diane Lane
God Blez and have an awesome Sunday! :)
I wrote about letters too :) I think it is so important and I truly love getting them myself. Great minds!
ReplyDeleteGreat and same minds! Me too love getting them, but too lazy to send one. I know I am guilty! :)
DeleteI bought some lovely letter writing paper from the UK before moving to the US, with the intention if sending some letter, I've not sent any yet...boo. I have sent cards and postcards though. I will write some letters soon! I have all the old letters I wrote as a child to pen pals, I love looking through them :)
ReplyDeleteGo get those lovely writing papers and write a letter soon! :)
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DeleteLetters are so beautiful! I have a Nana that still handwrites letters to my kids and on the same thin writing pad she's always used. My daughter got one recently for her 21st, and I know she treasures the letters. They are beautiful keepsakes. Thanks for your post
ReplyDeleteohh! That's so sweet of your Nana. She might have been super happy to hold them. My regards to your daughter. :)
DeleteGreat quotes. I miss getting letters, too, but then I'm just as guilty as everyone else about not sending them myself.
ReplyDeleteThank you. :) Same here. I am also guilty for not writing any.
DeleteI still mail letters through the mail from time to time.
ReplyDeleteYou are awesome for taking the time and doing that! Cheers to you. :)
DeleteI mail letters as often as possible I just figure others must miss them like I do. There is nothing like opening the mailbox to something other than standardized mail!
ReplyDeleteMy father was in the navy when I was a child. I remember how my sister and I waited for the postman.
ReplyDeleteGreat post. Thanks for stopping by my blog and taking the time to comment.
I do a project every year where I write letters to the people in my life to just remind them how much I love them and what it is I appreciate about them. I've found it to be worthwhile and somehwat cleansing.
ReplyDeleteWhile cleaning for my garage sale, I found a few old letters. What memories they bring back! I have a penpal in Africa and I love writing and receiving letters from her.
ReplyDeleteI am a woman of a "cough-cough" certain age and although I blog and have email, I don't have an i-phone and an i-pad (also am retired and don't need these things for a job). I de-faced myself from Facebook since I am not writing a book and hated the comments on both sides during the election. So I do understand the value of these things. I write letters, I save letters from special friends and I cherish the letter I received from my parents who are now gone. Do you want to know how people felt during the American Civil War? read their poignant letters which are published in various history books. Letters and the written word are our history.
ReplyDeleteOh wow, it's so good to know somebody else likes handwritten letters as much as I do! I send handwritten thank-you notes. I write something in every birthday and Christmas card I send. I prefer to write some of my fiction by hand before I type it into the computer. I've kept cards and letters from special friends. As the Age of Silicon continues, handwritten documents are all the more to be treasured!
ReplyDeleteHappy A to Z!
When I move away to grad school this fall my boyfriend and I have agreed to write each other actual letters at least once a week. I look forward to it!
ReplyDeleteI wrote a story a while back about an aunt who was burning pictures of her ex-husband. Her niece commented it was a lot cooler than pressing 'delete' on her phone. There is something amazing about the tangible, whether it's a photo or a letter. That being said, I can't see myself going back to them. I love the convenience and relative safety of technology (with multiple back-ups) - as opposed to losing everything if you don't get that roll of film developed, or that box of letters burns in a fire.
ReplyDeletethe art of the letter. I still write them today. You can go to my site (I will link it below) and click on the link you can find my other blog Grandma Celia"s Love Letters. I don't mean to push it here, and I have been behind a little in posting, but they are scanned letters of my husband's Grandfather's letters to her before they were married. Its so beautiful the way everything was formally written. I wish they still had schooling for that.
ReplyDeleteKaTy Did at: Life's Ride As I See It
I love handwritten letters :) There's a thrill about getting something in the mail that you just don't have with email and technology. Letters definitely need to be revived!
ReplyDeleteLove letter writing. Haven't done it in eons, but have done lots of it. Have had many pen pals and used to write to friends. Some of us bloggers of a club are trying to revive the dying art. This post was a nice ode and reminder :)
ReplyDeleteFour Leaf Clover
Funny you mention this. I recently got the craving for stationery and realized this very thing...every one of my "pen pals" were via email. When I posted this through FB I got some takers. There *are* still people out there that want handwritten letters, and I got some addresses. Then, my problem came to a head when I couldn't find any stationery. Maybe I'm looking in the wrong places, or maybe, that art, too, is dying. One day I'll have that beautiful box of stationery that I just don't want to soil with my awful handwriting. :P
ReplyDeleteJamie Dement (LadyJai)
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Superb post. I still remember the delight at seeing the postman, and the disappointment when he didn't stop by our house. When my grandmother wrote letters to my mother, she and I would read and re-read again and again, until the next letter from my grandmother showed up. Your post brought back all those memories.
ReplyDeleteCynthia Rodrigues Manchekar at Cynthology
I don't mind not writing regular letters anymore, but I love creating my own fancy cards with handwriting on them for special occasions. I like the creativity in making something pretty. But then, I also like building things in general. :)
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