Letters from Home

Call me "Old Fashioned" but receiving a hand-written letter is so much more exciting than e-mail, text, or facebook. Honestly, a letter is much more personal because the sender actually took the time to write each word in a beautiful way. Tonight I received a letter from my grandmother. The thing about letters is they seem to come on the most rotten days in order to lift your spirits. Today was no extraordinary day, in fact it was quite dull. I woke up early for basketball practice, 7 am!!! As a result, I spend most of the day sleeping since I didn't get any sleep the night before due to loud fire crackers being set off and a person with a bad cough right outside my window. Therefore, my day seemed like a complete waste of time. However, right after caregroup a surprise shows up in my mailbox to turn things around. There is something about a letter which feels like home. It could be the fact that a letter is written in their very own unique handwriting, rather than the monotonous letters of Times New Roman. Or it could be the anticipation in waiting for a letter. My grandmother told me that I would be receiving a letter from her once a month. This adds to the excitement in post because you look forward to its arrival rather than the instantaneous messaging of e-mail. All in all, I prefer letters.