13th of Luck: Letter writing.

I write letters. Everyone write letters. Or, at least, maybe, most used to write letters.

But the art of writing letters is a dying art. People don't really write letters now. Do they? Many people now use E-mail. Although lawsuits and other forms of formal invoices will still take form in letters, rarely people will write.

I still do write. To my godson at least. I still remember that I used to love this one fine girl, who was from some parts of the interior of Sabah. The postal service back in 1998 was so bad then, that it literally took weeks for letters to arrive to her part of the world. And it isn't very often that a postman actually trudges caves, valleys and forests to reach her. I use to remember, it would be pages and pages long, consolidating one another.

Although we're history, but the significance of the letter is still there. Today, it is still the means of reaching certain people in certain places on this face of earth. Not that technology isn't good enough, sometimes it is just that technology hasn't reached certain parts of the world yet.

One very nostalgic thing about letters for me is that most of it were written with some sort of passion. Maybe that is why e-mails today are quite dull in my opinon. Straight to the cut, emotionless, lack of substance and flair.

But when I thought of it, I don't write emails the way I used to write my snail mails. Why?

Perhaps, once and for all, I should reflect on my position of writing e-mails. The original art form of writing letters may be dead, but I can still revive a certain practical art of it in every day to day e-mails that I send and receive.

Maybe. Let's see how it goes. I think I should. Not for the sake of art. I think there is much to gain.