Pen Pals
Do you remember in elementary school when your teachers would arrange a penpal for you in another school? I had two of those in 2nd grade - one lived in New York state and the other in Florida. Wanna hear a shocker? I still correspondence with the one in New York. Her name is Erin and she works for the postal service delivering mail on city routes. I've never spoken to her on the phone, neither have I ever visited her. But I treasure the friendship we've maintained over the past 23 years. I mean, sure, sometimes 3 or 4 months will go by without a letter, but we're both busy people. It never seems to matter. :)
With the advent of email, it seems letter-writing on pretty stationary and notcards is a fast disappearing art form. I used to think that if someone didn't have email, then they shouldn't expect to hear from me.....but I've changed that attitude over the past few years. Now I'm always on the lookout for cool stationary or notecards that scream "Gidget style". Getting a physical letter in the mail, amongst all the bills and junk mail, makes me smile...and I decided that my friends are important enough to me that I want to send them real letters and notes because I hope it would make them smile. It doesn't take a lot to brighten up someone's day, and that's a cause I can support! All it requires of me is a little thoughtfulness and time.
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That's awesome to have stayed in touch for 23 years! I once found a balloon in one of our farm fields from another country. (I can't seem to recall where but I do remember the name was Pablo so it was Spanish speaking.) I communicated with Pablo for a couple years but everything eventually dried up as we became teens and were too "cool" to write letters.
Letter writing is a dying art and I must say that I fell victim to it a long time ago. I love to receive them but rarely write them. Email has just made it way to easy to not send snail mail. When dating my wife when she was in another country, we both wrote letters very often and have saved them. I think it will be fun to look at them some year in the future when we are both old and gray.
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