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| comment | | "parent_author":"",<br>"parent_permlink":"writing",<br>"author":"razvanelulmarin",<br>"permlink":"writing-a-letter-a-lost-art",<br>"title":"Writing a letter,<br> a lost art.",<br>"body":"I was watching \"The Crown\",<br> a show about Queen Elizabeth on Netflix,<br> and noticed how many letters these people back in 1940-1950 wrote and read. Every day,<br> or week,<br> they'd send a letter to friends,<br> family. In fact,<br> if you look at the study of history,<br> letters and journals are very important historic documents because they gives us a candid insight into what these important people really thought and how they reasoned. It also tells us what happened at different point in time.\n\n<center> https:\/\/media.licdn.com\/mpr\/mpr\/p\/5\/005\/099\/200\/2b2eeee.jpg<\/center>\n<br>\n\nSo,<br> a historian from 2300 studying the 21st century will find nothing but our digital records. Which is in some ways an improvement - just think of the blockchain,<br> records impossible to lose - but in other ways i feel that it is a loss of coherence. It is one to chat,<br> chat chat,<br> chat about all and nothing and other to send a LETTER. The medium forces you to be briefer,<br> to try to get to the important bits,<br> to gather your thoughts. That's not nothing.\n\nOne might wonder,<br> who even can I send a letter to? If no one,<br> why not yourself,<br> I answer. Isn't that what a journal really is? A letter from yourself to yourself? And a very important one. It's not coincidence that every therapist out there recommend journaling. Finding yourself is hard when you are typing in 10 chat windows in the same time.\n\nI am trying it myself and find it very difficult. In a way,<br> I try to treat my posts as part journal\/part literature so that helps but still,<br> it's very different. And sometimes there's nothing to write about. But being with your journal,<br> facing the blank page can be a learning experience in itself.\n\nLucky for you,<br> maybe you do have someone who would appreciate a letter. You know,<br> it's something special that people might actually keep and remember,<br> when a mail or Whatsapp message is just a notification somewhere.\n\nEnjoy!",<br>"json_metadata":" \"tags\":[\"writing\",<br>\"thoughts\",<br>\"advice\",<br>\"article\" ,<br>\"image\":[\"https:\/\/media.licdn.com\/mpr\/mpr\/p\/5\/005\/099\/200\/2b2eeee.jpg\" ,<br>\"app\":\"steemit\/0.1\",<br>\"format\":\"markdown\" " | | vote | "voter":"razvanelulmarin",
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