Snail Mail

So i mentioned this in a previous post i have a really good friend that now has gone off to the navy. i just got a letter from him from basic training. i plan on writing him about once a week just to keep him up today on everything going on and plus i think of him more as a brother than as a friend. So i just want to write him let him know people are still thinking of him even though he is gone. but now i find myself in a position that is weird to be in. I am writing letters. in the society we live in where everything is sent in an instant it seems so strange to give a message to the postman and then it will be sent to my friend and he will have it in a few days. if i said that a decade ago. the response would be ” So ” or ” Yeah ” its amazing how everything is just at a click of a button now. its seems like your being ignored if someone doesn’t respond to your e-mail within a few hours of sending it. another thing i am really cheating i am not writing anything. i am typing it and printing it out. cause i rely so much on spell check i don’t know how long it would take me to write something and make sure all the words are spelled right. and plus i type way faster than i can write. but on the other side my friend doesn’t have that he has paper and pencil so i can write two pages in the time it takes him to write a half page. the really unfortunate part is i have to read it. he has the worst handwriting & grammar out of anyone i know and if you know me that has to be bad cause my grammar is not the greatest. it just feels like writing is becoming so obsolete anymore. honestly can you remember when you actually sat down and wrote something out by hand that wasn’t a grocery list. i know some people still write more than they type but i just keep thinking about in my childs life time they will have more typing classes than classes on how to do cursive wirting. Which is such a crock by the way. all i remeber when i was in elementy school is my teach saying how we need to know how to write in cursive. everyone uses it and you have to know it go get by in society. WRONG. last time i used cursive was on a spelling test. give you an idea here were some of the words

berry

purple

judge

sofa

state

Extra Credit

Orchard 

yeah. its just crazy on how we are switching into a society that relys on you being able to type fast not how many words you can dictate on paper. i just wonder how long it will take to make it obsolete to write. think about it its not a crazy idea. do you have a blackberry or iPhone. do you write all your little reminders or notes on paper or it. yeah. its going in that direction its just crazy to think about. so i will keep typing my letters and keep trying to decipher my friends hand writing. 

-MeaD.