Our world is all about the fast. We want instant everything. Instant connections with people. Instant messaging. We don't like to wait. In this I think that we are missing out on how important the slow is.
My parents are currently away from their home for the next year and they aren't the easiest to get a hold of where they are now located. As such I have come to the lost art of letter writing. Every week (mostly, sometimes I'm not as diligent) I write a letter to my mom. One of the things that I have noticed is that writing a letter makes me contemplate a little bit the things that I write. I still write mostly about the mundane unimportant aspects of my life, but I tend to dive a little deeper than just the surface because a small note about nothing would not be worth the price of the stamp. I wish more people would write letters. The instant can make us loose so much of the important deeper parts of life.
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