Email vs. Letter Writing

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Email doesn't yellow at the edges or require gloves to handle it. But there also isn't the same feel you get from reading email that you get from holding and reading a letter. However, as has happened to me, once you delete an email, from the Inbox or Sent Message box, it is gone. There is no getting it back. And such actions must be done in order to create space, which was an issue before Gmail existed. So who knows what emails I have deleted from my other email account that might prove useful in crafting a story say, or researching a topic of interest. Then again, paper is not immune to disaster either. It is quite combustible, after all, but you can decide on whether or not you want to keep it simply by scanning the contents instead of guessing by the subject line whether or not you want to go through the trouble to read it and see if it is worth keeping. Letter writing in itself used to be an art form, you could sense a person’s personality and mood just by examining how hard they pressed upon the paper or the sweeping of the tails on individual letters. Obviously, letter writing is a time consuming past time and therefore one can understand the need in this busy world in which we live, for a more effective form of communication to be adopted. Letters go missing in the post and can take weeks, even with today’s modern postal services, to reach their destination. But I always get a sense that those who have taken the time to write a letter generally have thought their comments through making it in my mind a more sincere mode of communication. Letter writing is a wonderful thing--when letters are kept, you have this record. A folio of letters leave a permanent record of what a person has done and where they've been that can't be replaced by e-mail, despite the perception that digital communications live on

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