I wonder
when exactly it was that I last received a long letter handwritten on a pretty
piece of paper. To my chagrin, the tangible mails in my mailbox are pretty much
bills and ads. Although personally heartfelt snail mail is fast decreasing every year, I still check the list of
my family and friends to whom I would send my handwritten Christmas cards every
December. If you are the one who still delights
in picking up paperback novels instead of fashionably slide-turning the
page of a book on the Kindle, we are on the same wavelength.
No one can
deny that a digital revolution has swept almost every corner of our lives at a
crazy pace. Millennials in my
family, including my own son and nephew, enjoy high technology in smart phones,
video games, and various kinds of gadgets
and gizmos that take up and fill quite a lot of space in their lives. At a
glance, they seem to read “literal” books (made of paper and ink) just as a drudgery of school work, not for the
personal experience with those texts. However, each time I read their Facebook
postings or twitter messages, I can tell many of our young ones still crave
writing and reading each other’s mind, though they do it NOT on palpable materials like papers fold in
an envelope. One thing common
between techies and the old school
people (like me) is that we all want to stay connected by writing, reading, and
feeling one another’s heart and thoughts.
Yes, either
emails or snail mails, paperback novels or Kindle versions, playing LPs or
youtube, I don’t think it matters as long as we share blessings with one
another through reaching out. Thank you, at the moment, for being connected to
my blog, friends!
Expressions
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Snail mail: mail delivered by postal system
(which refers to the slow speed of a snail)
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to delight in doing …..: to find pleasure in doing….
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Millennials: same as millennial generation that
was named as such due to their
coming-of-age at around the turn of the millenium in some way, shape, or form.
A realistic time frame would be early 1980s to mid 1990s
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gadgets and gizmos: a usually small mechanical or
electronic device
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drudgery: hard and dull work
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palpable: sensible by any of the 5 human
senses, or by intuition, also known as the 6th sense
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