Pen and Paper

Ironically...just saw a friend's fb status...

She was happy about getting a letter. Yes, a real pen and paper, handwritten letter, and not an email.

There's something about a handwritten letter that makes it special...

Relatively speaking, it takes a long time to write a letter, when you compare it with the mere seconds it takes to shoot out an email. So when someone takes the time to hand write a letter, you know they truly care.

There's no backspace key or delete key when you hand write a letter. It's whatever the person was thinking at the time, with nothing hidden, without any editing. Everything is real. (Not entirely true, I guess.)

And, of course, you see the physical object. What kind of paper did the person use? What does his/her writing look like? How is the paper folded? All, a projection of the writer.

Something so simple, yet so magical.

Hopefully, I've worked a bit of magic.