This post originally appeared on a previous blog of mine, Hikes & Crafts.
April is the USPS’s National Letter-Writing Month. The challenge is to write one letter every day of April– #30letters30days. Personally, I have decided to take that a step farther and not only write a letter every day this month, but also one each weekday of this academic quarter. I am not wonderful at keeping up to thinks I have resolved to do, but I hope to be able to continue with this attempt.
I am choosing to write a letter every day for several reasons. One of these is that I simply need to reconnect with my friends and family. Too often I allow school and responsibilities to overwhelm my life and my mind becomes preoccupied; because of this, I neglect to check up on the lives of those close to me. A hope for this letter-writing period of my life is to strengthen my relationships.
This time will also hopefully lead me to writing more letters after my personal challenge ends. As a child, I loved writing letters fo my friends and penpals. Sadly, somewhere along the line, I lost the joy in that hobby. As I am now rediscovering how great it is to even write a tiny note to a friend, I wonder why I ever allowed myself to stop.
Letter-writing is also simply a very calming activity for me (and, I would guess, for many people!) This is making me very excited for the time of day when I can just take a step back and let the stresses of my day go onto the back burner for a second while I write.
A letter can be anything from a long missive updating someone on my life and asking about theirs, to a single sentence just telling someone how much you love or miss them. I have been writing many different kinds of letters, and only hope their recipients will enjoy them the way I appreciated my time writing them.