Nowadays, the main communicative means is using online services like the internet, Facebook, email and so on. We express our pain or happiness on Facebook with a short post of less than 140 characters. But did you know that people used to letter each other long time ago? The postman would visit house to house to deliver envelopes and people would wait for the letter excitingly. But ask yourselves now. When was the last time you went to the post office to send a letter?
Let me introduce you Hannah Brencher. She gave a heart touching and inspiring speech on TED. According to her speech……
She is the person who thinks that writing letters bring warmness to our world. When she was a college student she would go to the P.O. Box at the end of the day because her mother would mail her letters instead of text messaging or using any social networks. When she graduated college and moved to New York City, she sank into a pit of despair. So she did the only thing that she could think of at that time .She just wrote letters and sent them anywhere. She also left the letters at places like the cafe or in libraries. And she made a crazy promise on her blog saying that she would write letters to anyone no matter who they were, basically strangers. It might seem really crazy but there were people who actually got consolation from her brave action. She wrote to a single mother in Sacramento, a girl being bullied in rural Kansas and other people, giving them a reason to wait by the mailbox.
One man who decided that he is going end his life used Facebook as a way to say goodbye to friends and family. Strangers including Hannah Brencher wrote love letters to him which let the man have the reasons to live and wait in front of the mail box. Tonight he sleeps safely with letters beneath his pillow, scripted by strangers who were there for him
People would argue that letters take up too much of their time when people are all busy and when time of rapidness is coming upon. But do we really need to talk about the efficiency of time when there are people who lack of communication and love? Before discussing about the efficiency of time, we should think about the power of the ink on the letters that actually make people live, smile and feel happiness.