Want to touch someone....send them a letter

You are absolutely right, greengal! To touch someone, you need to do that bit of extra stuff. It has to be something extraordinary. Last time, sending emails was like WOW... now, it's back to good old traditional letters! ;-)

I send my best pal a card every few months. She needed a pick me up latelly. Emails she wasnt getting cause no net very often. So I sent her a card, a friendship braclet and a bookmark. She finally wrote me a few weeks later... She said she was glad for the "care package" and wore the bracelt to feel better. She lives about a state away. I miss her terribly. Sometimes a REAL LIFE LETTER or card in this case is better than anything else.

Amen Greengal. You just said a mouthful. We are losing some of our personalities to electonic means of communications. I have thought about this for a couple of years myself. I do still write personal letters and mail them, not as often as I use to but I do make it a point on special occasions or just to cheer up a family menber or friend. Thanks for brining this up. I feel it an important issue today. And don't forget the pictures in hard copy with those letters we Nanas do still like to carry them in our purses ya know!

I miss writing letters for my friends who are miles away from me. Before when I was in elemetary up to my 2nd year incollege, I often write letters for my friends in Laguna where my family used to live amd I kinda missed doing it. At the same time, I also missed receiving letters from them as well. I still have my boxes of letters and everytime I missed them, I'll check out their letters to relieve my sadness. I love writing letters but because of my busy schedule and also because of technology,I'm not able to do it. I'd like to bring back writing letters again.(",)

I still send letters and cards to my friends, family members and loved ones just to let them know how much they mean to me. A very close friend of mine found out that she needs open heart surgery. I sent her a card telling her how much I value her friendship, and that her deceased father and her and my angels would watch over her, and make sure she made it through. I cried as I wrote the words in the card and sent it off, and she cried when she received it. I like to make sure people close to me know how much they mean, and really I don't think an email has the same effect as a card that they can keep and look back on many years down the road. It's those small memories that mean the most.

You said nothing but precisely right things here, greengal. It's indeed giving a lot lovelier feeling when you send someone a handwritten letter compared to the easy-access electronic greeting cards or emails. they seem to be less personal and touching. and yes, I still write letters and get those traditional paper cards for my parents and girlfriend whenever I feel like letting them know that they aren't forgotten..and especially on holidays and their special days. and the picture you have there, that's really neat! thanks for posting this one.. Godbless!

Yes. Letters are very powerful to express our emotions and feelings. WHen you have love letter to your love ones, it makes them cherish it for the rest of her life.

I think the only time I write a letter now if I want to thank someone personally for a gift, i.e I still write thank you letters after Christmas for my presents, this was installed in me as a child by my parents as good manners, and even now at 35 I still carry on doing this. Yes I think letters whilst slow are far more personal and besides most if not all of my relatives are NOT on the computer, may be a good thing in actual fact because then I would email them instead! I think with new technology we are all guilty of being lazy and in this speedy world where speed is the essence is it any wonder?

Hey you must be a very romantic person, anyway i too thought about the same during valentines days as my partner was very far away from me. What i did really made his day as i wrote a letter with my own handwritting. This can touch peoples heart, todays technologies like sms, E-mails etc has made the life more unromantic.

Um... i have totally left the conventional way of communicating. I dont send any letters or postcards. As u said, i only use cellphone to send SMS or make calls, emails, chats, etc. I find it more comfortable, effective and efficient. But, it has some weaknesses. You have mentioned one, it might be forgotten. I emptied my inbox in email or cellphone after some time and i just lost all the evidence of my communications with my friends, families or even the most important person in my life. Thats a pity... But, electronic data can be very useful though. I do keep very important messages or mails in my laptop. I might need it later. I also keep a lot of photos and videos from my digicam in my harddisk. These are what letters and postcards can do. With videos, i can re-watch the funny and memorable events of my life. ^^

Hmmm, you have a very good point here. I can't even remember when was the last time I sent a letter. We are so used to this computer stuff that writing down a letter seems ancient and not the "IN" thing anymore. I have to tell you though, I'm better at typing then writing. I feel that typing down a letter is faster and saves me lots of time. I'm too busy with so many things and I like to finish everything at once. :0

I agree on this. I think it is more touching to give or send handwritten mails or greeting cards than electronic mails and e-greeting cards. I think the person who's going to receive this will feel good because he or she knows that you really spend time and effort in doing this. Sometimes traditions are better than innovations. Not everything that we have now is better than what we used to have when we are still in grade school.

I have a whole bag full of greeting cards and letters from my friends and my siblings , all those are from the golden days when i still considered myself kid. I often open that bag and feel nostalgic about those moments .. each and every word written in those letters make me feel so good. When i got commited to my girlfriend in college, we used to exchange so many letters , and i still feel the freshness of our relationship when i read them , but now we both got jobs . have full access to internet and email and now we just send emails to each other... But Emails don't have same feelings attached to them as letters .. I miss writting and receiving letters ..

I really appreciate what you have to say. In this day and age of impersonal e-mails and a busy lifestyle, I think it is awesome when someone spends the time to personally hand write a letter. It's taking that extra step that makes it personal and really makes me think that they care.

i only write letters now if they are official , you are right enough though , I have letters sent to me from hubby over 40 years ago and I still love to read them , to be honest pal I had never given this subject much thought until you did the discussion xx

I do still send letters by postal service. I am a card person. I send cards on birthdays and when they are feeling ill or having a bad day. I love to send and receive cards and letters.

I love to post lovemail..via internet and hand written ones..Sometimes I have written a poem for my loved one and I like to draw a pic and post the poem on hand made paper..yes it costs me a couple of bucks just to buy the paper but it is really worth it in my opinion. There is nothing like a hand made gift fromthe heart..Perhaps I am of the old fashioned generation..

OMG! this post and pisture just hit me straight in the heart, greengal..and there's this three words running inside my mind... FA BU LOUS! lol seriously, I have to agree with you! it just gives a different lovely feeling when someone close to you gives you a letter or some greeting cards which they personally made or written...and that feeling could somehow not be found when receiving e-cards or emails. there's really this personal touches the traditional stuffs bring and no matter how hi-tech and advanced the world may go..I'd still prefer to send or receive letters and greeting cards to the people close to my heart especially on their special days.

yeah I write letters when I feel I have something important to say, I always write a letter I signed up here at yahoo with my own name, was in the top 1000 worldwide for answers, my account got closed, maybe now everything I wrote is gone letters are more permanant

don't forget that to mail a letter that it will cost you more money...