Back in my younger days, when I was in college. Does that make me sound older than 22? I promised myself something when I came to South Dakota. I promised myself that I would write 5 letters a day. Up until now I have kind of interpreted this a lot differently than originally intended.
When I made this vow of sorts, I wanted to do a better job of keeping in touch with friends and family. Up until now I have only met that goal by saying letters means only 5 l-e-t-t-e-r-s. Pretty lame I know. Today though, I was frustrated with myself. You know that feeling you get when you have let yourself down and you have no one to blame by yourself. It is the worst, because you are mad because of something that you have failed to do.
I had a stack of letters from people that I wanted to write back and I have been very lackluster and lazy at responding. I had some funny stationary, envelopes and stamps. I was pretty much good to go. Although I was missing one crucial element. A wax seal. Luckily one appeared in the mail several days ago. I say appear so that I don’t sound really lame and mention that it took me over an hour online to find and order exactly what was needed. I’m pretty pleased although it took me a good hour of messing up before I could properly, melt and seal the wax onto the letters. Now that I have done it several times I am practically a pro.
Next I just need to look towards buying some ridiculous stationary and a quill pen and my pretentiousness shall be complete. After that I am simply in need of calligraphy classes, a couple month stint in England to get a phenomenal accent. In other words, I’m almost there.
Tomorrow I will be sending out a good handful of letters and I am actually quite pleased with myself. It has taken me long enough, although hopefully I can continue this trend. It wasn’t incredibly hard to do. I just sat down and wrote letters for a little more than an hour and that was that. There are tons of people that I want to stay in touch with now it is a question of whether or not I make the time to do it. I don’t want to be frustrated with myself and I don’t want to lose contact with my friends so it is likely that a little wax seal, which I’m not going to tell you about, because you will hopefully receive a letter with aforementioned seal on it.
Please do enjoy….and oh yeah. Write back.
D.