To Blog or Not To Blog...

That's some question. In our world of minute-by-minute technological advances, writing letters to friends and ex-lovers or crying over a tattered journal about your latest failed romance have been replaced with us sitting in front of computers and laptops for hours, getting' carpal tunnel and tension headaches (or for the hardcore bloggers, bloggin via cellphone) as we try to share some facets of our lives with...now get this...a bunch of strangers.

To get a letter in the mail these days means 1 of 2 things: a bill or someone soliciting us for a future bill. Seldomly do we receive a handwritten note or a four page letter from old college roommates, the first boy/girl you kissed or even pictures of your siblings latest addition (that only remind you that you're a year older and still single).

Is it because we've become such a rushed and impatient culture, that receiving a simple letter or taking the time out to scribble in a notebook truly appears to be archaic and obsolete...

We text message & email people more often than we call which is really a poor form of communication because you can't hear anger or get a true since of yearning from a text. We've become the untouchables in the simplest sense-avoiding human contact or only tolerating it at a minimal.

So I got to thinking about this today while I sat down to write a letter to my mama. Since I've been in college, this has always been a reliable way to keep in touch. To me, writing a few pages to someone I care about is an important endeavor. It's the one thing that keeps me from being totally antisocial. The letters I've written over the years (and I've written a bunch) have revealed so many things that I couldn't possibly say manage to let slip from my lips. My mama absolutely detests all things computerized and she doesn't have a telephone in her apartment which further reinforces our need for good ole' snail mail.

So as I end this post, I want to encourage everyone to take it back at least once before the new year rears its head, pick up pen and paper or the telephone, and write/call someone you haven't texted or emailed in a while. I think it would really make their day.