We always had to write thankyou letters but were given a days grace, so we began the day after Boxing day. All our family are and were letter writers. My father had lovely copperplate handwriting, lovely to look at as well as to read, but we used to say his writing was so good because he wrote so rarely he could afford to be eloquent! I agree that with modern computers , it is easy to send a quick thankyou, but I think later on you may wish you still had actual letters. I have a few treasured tatty letters from my granny that I keep. She was the most important person in my life, and looking at these letters, seeing her handwriting and reading her words , brings her to my mind. After she died, in a car crash, she still was a great influence on my life. If ever I was tempted to be dishonest, unfair or not want to make an effort to help someone, I would look at the handwriting on her letter, and would think "what would my granny think of me doing this?" It is not the obviously wrong things like stealing that you know is wrong, but that suggestion that you could tell someone that you couldnt come after all, when you had been given the chance to do something you would prefer. While your own thoughts would be saying, well that person will never know that you let them down to suit yourself, I would only look at the letter or a picture of my granny, and thought what would she do? When I lived abroad and might be feeling homesick or lonely, handwritten lettters were so treasured and taken out and read over and over. Well keeping in touch with loved ones is the most important thing, so whether you whats app ring or write they will be glad to hear from you
