i write postcards to strange people i've known or unknown people i've met for long enough to extract an address. sending a stranger a postcard answering a question they never asked is an odd hobby but I enjoy the process. Spending 50-cents on some cliche picture of a town once visited then writing something witty and spending another 44-cents mailing the card all for what?
maybe the card reaches the addressee at the end of a tough day and brings a smile to their face. maybe i enjoy waiting in line at the post office, bantering with the patrons adjacent me in the queue. maybe i'm cheap and spending 94-cents on a person i was once friendly with sounds like a sound investment.
no, i write postcards for me even if they're addressed to someone else. i like the process. i have only a finite amount of room to convey a feeling, sensation, joke or emotion and nothing more. i can write about whatever i want or what happened to me as i was buying the postcard. i can write a hyperlink on the postcard linking to a story about what happened to me while buying this postcard but wouldn't fit on the postcard.
i can place 1-cent stamps all over the postcard and talk about how there's no room to write on a postcard that's covered in 1-cent stamps or ask a question on one postcard and attach a self-addressed stamped postcard for their response.
no, i write postcards for my own amusement, which gets off on amusing people that aren't part of my life. it's an analogue greeting in a digital world to the beautiful, wonderful people i don't converse with with any frequency. to everyone i've ever wrote a postcard to thanks and to everyone else it's in the mail.
maybe the card reaches the addressee at the end of a tough day and brings a smile to their face. maybe i enjoy waiting in line at the post office, bantering with the patrons adjacent me in the queue. maybe i'm cheap and spending 94-cents on a person i was once friendly with sounds like a sound investment.
no, i write postcards for me even if they're addressed to someone else. i like the process. i have only a finite amount of room to convey a feeling, sensation, joke or emotion and nothing more. i can write about whatever i want or what happened to me as i was buying the postcard. i can write a hyperlink on the postcard linking to a story about what happened to me while buying this postcard but wouldn't fit on the postcard.
i can place 1-cent stamps all over the postcard and talk about how there's no room to write on a postcard that's covered in 1-cent stamps or ask a question on one postcard and attach a self-addressed stamped postcard for their response.
no, i write postcards for my own amusement, which gets off on amusing people that aren't part of my life. it's an analogue greeting in a digital world to the beautiful, wonderful people i don't converse with with any frequency. to everyone i've ever wrote a postcard to thanks and to everyone else it's in the mail.
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