Today I wish that I could write a letter to everyone I care deeply about. Whenever I sit to write a letter I go through an initial uncomfortable phase. Then I turn some sappy music on, put one ear bud in, and just start typing. Nothing is in complete sentences. Most times I don't even record the entire thought, but I go through one emotion at a time. This is not to say that I am done with that emotion. I explore it until it is finished then it flows into another emotion, maybe to pop its emotional strength back at a later time in the later.
That is what makes letter writing so raw for me. It never captures everything and rarely even encompasses all I had to communicate. Yet, the natural shift through emotions that I feel when I am writing and what comes out in the written product makes the process worthwhile. In the past I have started writing a letter being angry, and by the time I was finished feeling disappointment, or starting off sad and ending up thankful.
Written word forces you to think through and explore yourself. When words are written, I don't want them to be empty, so very few are disposable.
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