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It's not something I've ever done but mostly because it feels like I don't have anything important enough to say in a letter.
Also my hand writing is really bad unless I really concentrate. I probably just need to practice.
Maybe it'll happen one day.
Oh, I totally relate to that. If someone had asked me last week what I think about handwritten letters, I would have just shrugged and said "not for me".
I mostly ended up writing about how I do not really know what to write, honestly. And I printed out a meme which I put with the letter. So it was not exactly elaborated. But it's still fun ^^
"Dear Person whom this letter is for,
This is a letter I'm writing to you to tell you that I'm not very good at writing letters. Here is a picture of a cat that I printed and glued to this letter.
Thank you for reading my letter,
FJ"
Honestly if I got that letter I would laugh. :D So that's pretty neat.
Edit: I would laugh because I'd like the letter. Not because it would be a bad letter.
That's exactly the vibe I was going for xD
I might even have been giggeling while writing that letter...
The beauty of a letter is that it doesn't have to be important. It just has to be you. If I have no events to relate, I just talk about a show I liked (or hated), a funny story about a friend, etc. Sometimes I just reminisce - my brother really liked hearing about some things I remembered from when we were kids. You would be surprised at how much of your personality pokes out of 1-2 narrative paragraphs.