Wed Jan 16, 2019 8:47 pm
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I've recently been trying to de-clutter the house which is easier said than done. (This was the reason for the "scanning photos" thread a while back.) It's gone OK(ish) but I've now got to the sentimental/personal stuff, which is proving really quite difficult.
It's made me realise just how many friends I've lost contact with over the years and also I've lived through quite a large generational change. That is that when I was younger, people actually wrote letters.... with pens... on paper... and posted them in a post box. Nowadays letter writing is a dying (or in my case, dead) art. I can't recall when I last took the time to write a letter. Can you? These days it's all instant messaging and social media. Even email has had its day.
Reading these letters has been a bit of an emotional roller coaster. I feel loathe to throw them away, even those from people I will never see again, especially as they took the time to commit their thoughts to paper, for me. Some of the letters I exchanged with friends were multiple pages (in some cases A4 (or foolscap) pages) long. Clearly, those friends committed significant time and effort into writing them.
I don't know what point I'm trying to make.... Letter writing didn't make friendships stronger because we still drifted apart, so does it matter that these days, everything is done with a couple of sentences (at best) via WhatsApp?
I wonder whether there'll be a generational divide amongst those who take time to read this? The younger readers may think "what the f..... is he on about?" where as those closer to the ends of their careers than the beginning might have some empathy.
Over to you......
It's made me realise just how many friends I've lost contact with over the years and also I've lived through quite a large generational change. That is that when I was younger, people actually wrote letters.... with pens... on paper... and posted them in a post box. Nowadays letter writing is a dying (or in my case, dead) art. I can't recall when I last took the time to write a letter. Can you? These days it's all instant messaging and social media. Even email has had its day.
Reading these letters has been a bit of an emotional roller coaster. I feel loathe to throw them away, even those from people I will never see again, especially as they took the time to commit their thoughts to paper, for me. Some of the letters I exchanged with friends were multiple pages (in some cases A4 (or foolscap) pages) long. Clearly, those friends committed significant time and effort into writing them.
I don't know what point I'm trying to make.... Letter writing didn't make friendships stronger because we still drifted apart, so does it matter that these days, everything is done with a couple of sentences (at best) via WhatsApp?
I wonder whether there'll be a generational divide amongst those who take time to read this? The younger readers may think "what the f..... is he on about?" where as those closer to the ends of their careers than the beginning might have some empathy.
Over to you......
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The forum seems to have stopped logging me out at random intervals. Perhaps they like me after all? (Thanks for fixing it) Our pleasure!
The forum seems to have stopped logging me out at random intervals. Perhaps they like me after all? (Thanks for fixing it) Our pleasure!