Moody Monday: An Assignment this week

Your assignment this week it to write a personal letter, to someone who is not expecting it.  It can be an old fashioned paper, sent through the mail, or email.  What will matter to you, and to the person receiving it is the content. Say something in the letter that is personal.  Ask about the other person's life, about what is happening, about the health of the person and their loved ones.  Talk about how you are doing, and what is happening in your life.  Make it personal.  

Back when dinosaurs roamed the plains,  and I was in school, we were taught to write letters.  There were templates, formulas like this:

Dear ___,

I hope this finds you well.  How is your ____ doing?  What are your plans for _____? 

I am doing _____.  I have been doing _____. We have plans for ____. 

We hope to _____. I wanted you to know ____. 

I look forward to your reply. 

Love or Sincerely or Yours Truly

____

I send a couple of letters a month, sometimes more. I cannot control if anyone will will respond. I love it when I receive a reply, but if I don't I can hope that I have touched that person's life for a moment. I have let the person know that someone knows and cares that they exist. The essential of human contact. 

Some respond often, some seldom, one person never responds (a family member.) Responding takes time, something many people believe they lack. Many are afraid that they have nothing to say or share, and we all do.  A response, even if it is to say that life is complicated, busy, stressful, fun, challenging, or painful.  It takes sharing.

If you are at a loss for who to write, there is a contact me box on the right on a computer (it does not show up on the mobile device feed.) If you use blogger and want to add a contact me box, it is one of the standard sidebar gadgets.