I got home last night around 11:30 pm after sitting in a chair at a desk for 8 hours at work.
My norman routine goes: take off my shoe; take everything out of my pockets; take off my button up shirt off; go to the kitchen to grab dinner and eat.
While I was putting away my stuff out of my pocket, I saw a letter for me placed on the table. A letter all the way from Cedar Rapids, Iowa.
A few weeks ago, my friend Mary (lets call her Maltch in this post), texted me for my address. It seemed pretty urgent, though how can you tell the tone of a voice through a text, right? So I gave her my address.
My first thought was, she probably inviting me to her wedding, but thats not like the Maltch I know. So my second thought was she was going to send me a pack of Double Diamond cigars that we used to smoke after nights at the bar.
Ill tell you one thing. Maltch is a mysterious person. I still can't figure her out 'til this day.
Getting back to that letter I got, I opened the envelope and there were four pictures included with a card her and Molly (lets call her Maltch 2 in this post. How they got this name is a whole another story) sent to me.
Although Maltch and I text each other at times and only lasts about 8-10 texts every 3 weeks, reading this letter from both Maltches made my day 10 times better than what it was.
After reading this, I thought to myself that with having all kind of technology and social media to communicate now, the true meaning of connecting with people is being forgotten.
Sure the 21 Century's way of communicating now-a-day is through social media but, I think that it is more meaningful when you actually go up to talk to someone or receive a hand written letter from one of your friends that live 1,800 miles away.
Doing something as simply as writing a letter can make someone's day that much better.
So stop texting and writing a long novel on someone's wall on Facebook. Surprise someone and make someone days a little better.
-Jun
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