Getting Letters

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The feeling of getting mail from friends that is handwritten is such a nice feeling. I was on the plane coming home and now you have to turn off all electronics for about the first 15 or so minutes at the very beginning of the flight and at the end. So I couldn't listen to my music on my phone, but I'm the kind of person who always likes to be busy. So I decided to pull out the barf bag from the seat and started to write a letter on it. I figured it would cool and funny to write a letter on a plane barf bag.

I wrote the letter and stuffed it into my backpack and then got off the plane. So normally I write letters to camp friends but I never send them because I don't have their address off hand. My camp makes a "yearbook" sort of booklet where everybody can put their address and then people can write letters. But in order to send the letter, I have to find my booklet, and then find the address and make sure I still have the letter. I loose things easily so actually getting it together to send the letter is the most difficult part for me.

Anyways I actually did send this letter and I was really excited about it. My mom keeps giving me all these random cards that she gets in the mail, so I always have cards to write on. So I sent it to my friend in Massachusetts and it got there maybe 3 or 4 days later. When I got a text saying "I GOT YOUR LETTER" it made me happy because I had forgotten by that point that I had even sent the letter in the first place.

I think that my generation barely knows what the postal system is let alone how to write letters. It's such an easy thing to do but its one of those simple things that make you smile. I think that my generation should stop texting, tweeting, face-booking  and just write a letter for one time. Letters for me, seem so much more genuine, because the person took the time to hand write the letter and send it. It's nice to get letters and then send other ones.

I'm going to try to send more letters to my friends from camp and even maybe to my friends who only live about 10 minutes away from me. Although it may seem like a waste of money for postage stamps, I actually think that it's a really nice way to say hi!