Words, rhymes and phrases

We share so much of ourselves on the internet. What we're doing, where we are, what we're eating or wearing. How we're being attacked by a bee or what film we're interested in seeing.

Letter writing is precious in the fact that we must pay for or words, so we make them more valuable. We send a letter carefully thought out in pretty articulate writing and buy a stamp and send it. These words are physical things on paper, they're living thoughts or ideas. They last as long as you want them, if you keep them they could have a long life in a shoe box, being read every now and again on a rainy day. Or they can have a short life span, and all you have to do it set flame to the paper and they're gone. That's it. They're not backed up on some super computer to come back and haunt you later, they're completely and utterly gone.

It just amazes me how no one writes letter or sends trinkets any more. It's just bills and Amazon boxes. I hope more people begin writing letters, even if it's only the odd year or two. Send a piece of yourself out into the world. Go on.