i wish i had a pen pal 🖃
i am 2000's kid. kinda. i was born in 1997, so i got to live thru big big changes, crazy world updates ! i was there when social media was born, which means i was also there when it didn't exist yet.
i remember mailing letters, to my friends, to my family, to my favorite tv show, to a company to get a prize, to my favorite magazine. it was so much fun. getting to write, draw and plan everything with my own little hands, picking the correct priced stamp, putting it in the mailbox and just wait. the anticipation !! not knowing when they were gonna get it exactly and then receiving a letter back !! !! ! it was so cool !
i get to do it still sometimes, i have a couple of friends that live very far away and i send them christmas postcards every year, because i did it in person when we were at uni together, and i felt like keeping the tradition alive. i used to have a friend that moved out to london and i also sent her letters on her birthdays. oh ! and this girl i met on twitter and i used to exchange little k-pop goodies thru mail for a few years, it was really fun.
but it's not the same, i wish it was constant, i wish i had a pen pal. someone i could send a letter once a month and that would send me one back. and we only talk thru mail, no phone numbers, no social media, just cute little postcards and drawings. i could send them a few stickers and they could send me back a collage they made with those, i could color a cute drawing they made, idk, or ! what about sending back and forth a notebook ??? each gets to write and create in it for a month, god that would be like a dream !! !
these are some of my favorites letters from my personal collection,
wouldn't you be so happy to receive something that cute ?? ? wouldn't it make your days better to know one of these was traveling all over the world to get to you right this moment ? and all of them have such nice words written in them, so many nice memories...
i remember we used to collect pretty stationary just to write letters, with all our favorite characters in it, we even traded them ! we took them to school on a binder and spent hours looking thru them, negotiating and trading, like they were pokemon cards, so much fun. i really miss it.
creo que nunca mande muchas cartas cuando era chica, recuerdo que quizás era caro para mi familia pero si recuerdo las cartas de navidad y de cumpleaños! me entregaban una felicidad enorme.
ReplyDeletetambien lo extraño :(
a veces les escribo a mis amigas cartas y se las entrego en persona ajajaja, recuerdo que mi esposa me escribió un par de cartas en pandemia -cuando eramos novias- porque sabia que me gustaban.
fue muy entrete en esos tiempos bien feos.
saluds!
oh my gosh, i miss having a pen pal :( Back in elementary school we had pen pals from kids in China (allegedly), which was really cool.
ReplyDeleteI think it would be cool to have someone you write to via letters only. it would make the letters that more exciting to receive when its your only form of contact. bring back pen pals i say!!
i think during covid i started penpalling. i used to go on reddit, amino, and global pen friends i think and i had a ton! i miss it 😮💨
ReplyDeleteThe feeling is oh so mutual. I used to penpal heavy in 2008-2011 and I miss it so much. Never stopped collecting stationey, and little trinkets in case the chance presents its self again. I just wish this Dorito would drop this tariff silliness so it could be easier to get back into 😔
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