Mullins posted the article from Huffington Post about formal letter writing, and I can honestly say I don't think that I've written an actual letter to someone (not just a BS school assignment) since like 6th grade.
You see when I was little, I had my best friend move away to North Carolina. We used to then write each other quite frequently as a way to keep in touch.
In the letters we would tell each other all about our lives, the things we were doing, the new friends we had made. We talked about our family, our pets, our schools all trivial things thinking back but at the time they were of deep importance.
I remember the excitement I would get or getting a letter in the mail, I would rush inside, rip the envelope open ( I was never skilled at nicely opening letters) and tear into the letter, soaking up all the words on the page. The whole process was always just awesome to me as a young child.
I will admit when it came to our letter writing, I was some what lacking in writing. I would forget quite often and there would be long lapses in between my letters. I was kinda bad at it.
But never the less, letter writing was a way to keep a friendship a live. It was personally we still felt like we new each other and we're close. I don't think this could have been achieved through email, in fact I know it couldn't have been.
A few years into middle school we switched to email only writing, and soon lost touch, something that I regret.
Letter writing is a dying art, as in the postal service and I can easily say I will be sad to see either of them go. In my high school, 18 year old heart there is a team of nostalgia for my forgotten friendship and formal letter writing.
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