Its A Matter Of Our Health, Staying In Touch With Friends, By Becky Hopkins
Staying active is important, and managing daily activities to leave room for rest and relationships is smart. Relationships require time and effort so I will work smarter in managing my time. With better time management I will be free to communicate more often with friends and family via e-mails, calls – also, letters which some of us still remember writing and receiving.
While few of us still write letters, I’m guessing most of us still appreciate receiving letters. E-mail doesn’t count because this is about a handwritten letter, an envelope and a stamp. A computer generated letter using the cursive isn’t the same.
It is unrealistic to say I will go back in time and resume the practice of sending handwritten letters; however, I can write more notes. This probably works better anyway. With technology ruling our lives, our national attention span seems shorter and everyone else is dealing with their own busy-ness in the time created by technology to do more. A long letter probably would be left, half-read, on Mary or John’s table or counter with the rest of a day’s mail before ending up in the trash can.
Becky Hopkins, SRES, GRI
CENTURY 21 Judge Fite Company
Serving the Dallas/Fort Worth Metroplex
Just sent a note to one of our elderly widows in the church. She’s never gotten into tech stuff, so email isn’t even an option.
I read once a long time ago that if you handwrite a letter to someone, they will virtually always read the entire thing because they’re curiosity about what you are saying to or about them, in almost a self-centered way, will drive them to finish it. Wonder if that’s still true today? I think it would be true for me.
I agree about the handwritten notes—or even some other way to reach out to someone in the way most meaningful to them—another random act of kindness that reminds a person of their value. Our small sacrifice of time for someone else speaks volumes, regardless of how it is said