A couple of weeks ago, I received a letter from a friend of mine who I studied with last year. He made the effort to write out a physical letter and send it my way in a bid to check up on how life was going and also rekindle the lost artform of letter writing. It struck me when I was working on my reply that it had been a very long time since I wrote a personal letter to anyone at all. We tend to express ourselves and convey messages to one another within a restricted space of either 140 characters on Twitter, or a few lines on Facebook.
It could be just a regional issue, however I wanted to pose the question anyway – When was the last time that you either sent or received a personal letter to someone? Are you emailing more than sending letters these days?
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Sadly, letter writing is a fading fad.
It is only letters and cards I receive from a member of staff at school really constitutes letter-writing/-receiving on my behalf.
It is a shocking thing to hear that many from future generations will never really feel the sentiments of euphoria associated with the postman visiting in the morning and dropping a papyrus of intrigue through the letterbox.
It seems the following phrase will also go with the fad:
– “Would you like tea while we wait?”