In the last four weeks, I have been really doubting my reliance - or addiction, some may say - to writing long emails. Apparently, it is not a good way to communicate - and I was told that "face to face still the best way to connect and communicate; you cannot communicate through emails".
I beg to differ.
I think that when one puts his/her soul on an email, it shows. When one is angry whilst writing an email, it shows. When one is in the mood for monkeying around, it shows. When one is sad, the sadness shows.
The words reveal what's behind them even on emails.
And all the more in handwritten letters.
In this video from TED.Com, Lakshmi Pratury talks about the letters and notes that her father had written before he died. She recalls how his words kept her strong - and how her words became extensions of her soul.
Well, as for me, I have my Moleskine with me almost always.
In fact, I have two: one that's for my private thoughts, and another that holds my rather weird scribblings and charts and ideas and everything else that one would consider weird.
And I have my fountain pen - not the expensive kind. Just the Lamy kind. (I don't trust myself enough, I guess, to buy me a Mont Blanc fountain pen.) And one capsule of ink lasts me - hmm - a week.
I think writing - on paper or on emails - is underrated. We should write more.
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