I decided to put a hand written letter in my card to my Grandma so she'd have something else to read! On a legal pad, hand written, it came to two pages. I was quite proud of my handwriting skills, I had forgotten how pretty my handwriting was when I really tried. Oh and let me tell you, I did NOT realize how wonderful typing was! I had forgotten how much it hurts your hand to write that much, because I haven't written anything like that since Junior High!! By the time I was finished my hand was cramped into a position that looked like some type of weird sign language.
Writing that letter got me thinking about all the letters my girlfriends and I used to write back and forth to each other in Junior High. It was so much fun to write and receive letters from your girlfriends about who was "going out" with who and what boy liked what girl and what outfit we were wearing the next day. I got tickled when I remembered all the jargon/lingo we used. It's almost like Text messaging is now days except letter style..
For Instance... "What's Up? NMH" was a favorite of mine.
Though I never used this method, My BFF always did:
"Just thought I'd
D
R
O
P
You a line" It made the letter look much longer when you used four whole lines for that clever little pun.
Of course if you were Going out with someone you always put "your initials + their initials" in a heart in the margin, that was always cool.
And you always signed TTYL BF4Ever and then of course we added a ps pps and ppps, whether that was correct APA format, we never knew.
It was also cool to fold your letter a really weird way and then write To: and From: on it and have someone else pass it to them in the halls!
I'm no sure if the letter writing days are over yet but one day they will be replaced with IM's and Text messaging completely because Kids are getting cell phones younger and younger now days. I'm sure when I have children they will cringe every time they hear me talk about writing letters to friends, kind of like I cringe when I hear the "I had to Walk to School when I was your age" speech I got from my Dad.
It's almost sad to think that letters are a thing of the past. I would love getting hand written messages, I love getting e-mails but a letter would be awesome because after writing that letter the my Grandmother I realize how much pain a friend would have to go through to make my day! With the internet the world is getting smaller and smaller my friends! I love staying in touch with old friends and meeting new ones, but I'm sad that my great grand children won't be able to look back at letters I wrote to home like I have been able to do with my Grandparents. It's so neat to look at the letters they wrote and feel like they are somehow captured, their life happenings writing on that paper with their handwriting; knowing that they touched that page it gives me happiness! It preserves a little memory of them. You can't just attach emotion and memories onto an e-mail like you can into a hand written letter. (Which is ironic because you CAN attach things to e-mails but not letters in real life.)
Maybe we should all write down a few stories on paper and save them for future generations to stumble across and remember us by! Has anyone else thought about stuff like this or am I the only weirdo ?? Also, did any of you guys write letters to your friends in Grade School?? Have any more fun lingo to add?! I wanna hear it!
Have a great weekend!
