Won’t You Fly High, Free Write, Yeah

Ok so I have two vague ideas, one that appeared later than the other. Not sure which one to go with. So, here’s the question, what path should I go down?

Idea one: I want to demonstrate through letters that human nature is constant despite how society develops. I got this idea when I grabbed the Ea-Nasir letter from letters of note. I was already familiar with this letter due to the people on the internet making memes about it. Here’s some examples.

People were pretty drawn to this letter because it showcased that customer service seems no different than it is today. Employees today face moments with entitled customers who complain and moan about “subpar service” when they’re trying their best. And we today face businesses who treat their customers like crap. People leave poor reviews on restaurants and salons and so many other places when they feel they were treated unfairly. Nanni’s letter to Ea-Nasir shows that even people 3000 years ago did the same thing. They complained about service when they felt cheated by a business. That’s what makes it iconic.

I also found a bunch of letters from the vietnam war, involving this guy named Larry who wrote hilarious letters and often jokingly wrote fantasies of him being heroic in the war. I think that it’d make good proof that human sense of humor and dreaming hasn’t deviated to far from the common day, even though many feel some sort of “gap” between older generations due to their esoteric humor.

Idea two: It’d be a deep dive on how people who have done horrible things are not fully horrible. I got this idea when people were presenting our letters of note last tuesday. One of us read a letter from Roald Dahl where he was sent a bottle full of dreams. He wrote back to the child that he would blow the dreams into the ears of sleeping children. Our general conclusion is that this was a pretty wholesome letter. But the thing is, I had recently learned that Roald Dahl had an affair with his wife for 11 years before divorcing her and also his works have faced criticism due to racial stereotypes. And yet, the sweet letter? It’d be a way to see things not only in black and white.