A Beginner's Guide To Writing Snail Mail

One of the first satisfying things I did this morning was dumping a white envelope in a red mailbox. I hope to receive a response in a week or two. Or three. Does it make a difference? The contrast between my awkward habit of F5-ing the digital mailbox couldn’t be bigger. Neither could the yielded satisfaction from utilising both systems. One is very fast, caters to my impatience and fuels my discontent when the (1) text appears the receival of an email that turns out to be yet another sloppy phishing attempt. The other gives me a perfect excuse to ink a nice pen, take the time to write, add a printed photo perhaps, or another physical trinket, and start the ritual of taking out the bike to sprint to the said mailbox. And thus here is a beginner’s guide to committing yourself to writing less of the former and more of the latter: hooray for snail mail, booh for electronic junk. If by any chance this text convinced you to start writing and looking for a postage stamp, but you don’t…