The rustic old world charm of writing letters – A simple pleasure of life

In the days of cell phones, email, and text messages, letter writing can seem hopelessly outdated. But it’s an art worth bringing back but it is not because of some misplaced sense of nostalgia. The writing and reception of letters will always offer an experience that modern technology cannot touch. While the 21st century iPad totting urban techie may ask "What's the point of discussing the benefits of writing a letter by hand anyways?"; a handwritten letter has a certain charm that electronic communication cannot replace.

Handwritten expressions will tell you how amazingly surreal it feels to pull out an old rustic letter sent by a loved one.

Writing a letter is one of the simple pleasures of life that we have overlooked and sidelined as technology and innovation has paved the way for forms of communication that are very cold, as compared to the warm feeling of a handwritten letter or note.

When it comes to sharing one’s true thoughts, sincere sympathies, ardent love, and deepest gratitude, words travelling along an invisible superhighway will never suffice. Why?

Because writing and sending a letter is the next best thing to showing up personally at someone’s door.

 Ink from your pen touches the stationary, your fingers touch the paper, your saliva seals the envelope. Something tangible from your world travels through machines and hands, and deposits itself in another’s mailbox. Your letter is then carried inside as an invited guest. The paper that was sitting on your desk, now sits on another’s. The recipient handles the paper that you handled. Letters create a connection that modern, impersonal forms of communication will never approach. The act of writing by hand is a mentally exclusive activity.

Now is the time to strike up a correspondence with your friends and lovers. I do not know a single person whose countenance does not light up at the sight of a real letter in their mailbox.

So many of us, myself included, look forward to getting the mail each day, even though the majority of the time it’s simply a pile of catalogs and bills. The desire for real correspondence clearly hasn’t left us. But if you want a letter, you have to send a letter. It’s up to you take the initiative and begin the circle of communication.

~ #poboxoxo