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People Come Into Our Lives to Teach Us How to Let Go

Just Want to Talk | Last Active: Oct 23 5:53pm | Replies (24)

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@scottij

Ever the contrarian... Letters (and e-mails) are the illusion of communication. We write because we are afraid of the confrontation, so we devise a one-sided onslaught and then feel justified. But that justification often grows into regret. If you are truly interested in rebuilding the connection, you will have to talk a little and listen more to the other person. That is the problem with letters. In my experience they just serve to inflame a person because the recipient cannot respond immediately and misunderstandings simply linger or worse, they grow.

Mom always said do not make something into to something it is not.

Good luck in managing your disease.
Best always,
s!

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in reply to @scottij Thanks. I think letter writing is a lost art, in terms of sitting down, often at different times of the day or night to compose a letter full of deep thought, communicating sincere feelings that often times cannot be fully expressed verbally. Given I am hearing impaired, I am driven to write letters the "old fashioned" way. With one exception, and that is the woman I met on this site who emails me several times a day/week.