In the past week I have received two beautiful emails from two beautiful friends - very long, very intimating, and very special.
It reminded me of emails from the late 90s, maybe even up until 2002. Emails were simply a way to get a heart-felt letter to its location much quicker, and hearts, thoughts, and dialogues were all conducted through that simple medium. Opening emails was like a mini-Christmas morning! Maybe this is just because I was in high school at the time, and then away at college, but those are my memories of my first inboxes.
Have things changed for anyone else?! Most of my emails now are for store sales, travel deals, and updates from various things, such as charitable organizations, newsletters I decided to subscribe to for some reason, and so forth. A smaller portion, and much more dear portion, is from family with pictures of the latest child, snow storm, family update or simple arrangements for the next visit. Email certainly is a very effective way of communication, however in the busy-ness it has somehow lost it's intimacy as well. I mean, I rarely have to take time to read through an email nowadays! I found myself being taken off-guard by the dear long emails and almost wondering what to do... their very presence seems out-of-place in my cluttered and scattered inbox.
I did take the time to read them, and am very glad I did. I love my friends and miss them dearly; I am very glad they wrote. And I guess the next challenge for me is the same challenge we decided on for this blog: to actually sit down, put a series of honest and true coherent thoughts together and reply! (which, friends, I'm very very excited to do [they read this blog too!])
So strange how a decade of technology transformation changes communication so much!
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