Epistolary Pursuits
For the first time in months, I finished a letter. It’s in my bag now, waiting to be transported to the post office. It’s 2009, obviously, and a lot of people prefer email to tangible mail delivered by human mail carriers. But, I’m different. I dislike email. I love computers, blogs, the Internet, technology in general, and have an unneccessarily large collection of gadgets, but email?—no thanks.
I’m bad at responding to friendly emails in a timely manner, anyway. So, I beg my friends living thousands of miles away for their addresses and try to send them mail. I say “try,” because I have lots of addresses and lots of people to write but … I’ve sent only a handful of letters and postcards in the last few months. I’ve been busy, kind of. Do you write letters? Have you ever (in your life) written a letter or postcard?
![[image] Things I've sent in the mail](http://www.callistonian.net/ima/blogged/mail.jpg "Things sent in mail")
Writing letters was one of my better hobbies. I should write more often. If I don’t, I may find myself shipping obscenely heavy boxes filled with nothing but stationery to the USA from Korea. Collecting? things is great, but … hundreds of dollars in shipping fees is not. T_T (The picture to the left is a poor hodgepodge of 9 letters/postcards/envelopes I’ve put through the mail).
FYI, my favorite postcard ever—I turned a photo like this one of my friends and I toilet-papering another friend’s car into a postcard, photoshopped a caption on it, and sent it to that other friend. I’m so nice. ;)
In other news, I haven’t lost Rock Paper Scissors since that rather unfortunate day when I screwed up and played rock. Scissors ftw.
I dislike email as well, and I love writing and receiving letters, but I unfortunately just don’t have the time or the will to write pretty letters or postcards to people when communication by phone or online is so much faster and easier. :( I think the last time I wrote a letter to a friend was in eighth grade, and that was because she wasn’t living at home and had only limited access to the phone.
I’m also bad at responding to friendly emails in a timely manner, but it would take me even longer to write and mail a letter!
I don’t think I’ve ever sent a letter in the mail, although my friends and I used to write tons of lengthy notes to each other (even though we talked all the time).
I don’t mind emails, but I love letters more. I always get so excited when there’s something in the mail for me :P
I guess I’ve converted to Facebook…
I only email more formal things. But I almost always mail cards. Or I hand deliver them if I pass by the person’s house, haha.
Whenever I receive a letter or a card, I open it immediately. With emails, I might have to open up my inbox a couple times until I actually read it. Because getting mail is nice. It’s oldfashioned, and less convenient, but it’s nice :)