Many things change with time, but not every thing changes for the better.\u00a0 One such phenomenon I can think of is the lost art of Letter Writing.\u00a0<\/p>\n
For years, I have lamented about the fact that the only \u201cmail\u201d I receive (via snail-mail) any more is bills and receipts.\u00a0 No letters.\u00a0 None whatsoever.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Aunts and uncles who used to send out letters once in a while, have switched to email.\u00a0 Moms and Dads had<\/em> to, simply to keep pace with their teenage sons and daughters.\u00a0 Even the greeting cards you used to send out till just a few years ago, have transformed into free e-cards that do their dance on your computer screen, and die a painless death in 90 days or less.<\/p>\n I know, I know.\u00a0 Electronic communication is so fast and friendly; so instantaneous in delivery.\u00a0 Who would want to write letters<\/em>?!\u00a0<\/p>\n Now, I love Technology as much as the next guy.\u00a0 Maybe, even more.\u00a0 But any one who\u2019s ever received a well-written missive would agree that email could never replace the charm, the magic, of a handwritten note.\u00a0 The use of appropriate grammar, the unhurried attention to detail, the choice of good stationery on special occassions\u2026 even words that were striken or revised would leave their mark on the note, for every reader to see.\u00a0<\/p>\n It was almost as if, every time you put pen to paper, you chose to bare your soul to the reader.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n Makes me think that we’re fast losing touch with an art form that was an important part of our heritage, without even pausing to ponder on it…\u00a0<\/p>\n In the decades to come, will our children even understand the antiquated practice of actually writing a letter using pen and paper?\u00a0 Would Abraham Lincoln\u2019s letters gain the legendary status they have, if he\u2019d shot off some emails from his Mac instead?\u00a0 Most importantly, in the absence of such cultural cues, how will we know what was really important and worth preserving?\u00a0 What will History<\/em> be “written” on?!<\/p>\n Worth a thought, isn’t it?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Many things change with time, but not every thing changes for the better.\u00a0 One such phenomenon I can think of is the lost art of<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_hide_featured_image":false,"_jetpack_featured_image_duplicate_dismissed":0,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1,20],"tags":[25],"class_list":["post-1180","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog","category-personal","tag-reflections"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/naveen.bachwani.com\/greymatter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1180","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/naveen.bachwani.com\/greymatter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/naveen.bachwani.com\/greymatter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naveen.bachwani.com\/greymatter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naveen.bachwani.com\/greymatter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1180"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/naveen.bachwani.com\/greymatter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1180\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3788,"href":"https:\/\/naveen.bachwani.com\/greymatter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1180\/revisions\/3788"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/naveen.bachwani.com\/greymatter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1180"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naveen.bachwani.com\/greymatter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1180"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naveen.bachwani.com\/greymatter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1180"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}