Just Some Patterns I Noticed

Presentations are done, thanksgiving break is almost here, and all my future assignments shouldn’t take me long to finish. I feel like a weight has been taken off my chest and given me a newfound clarity. My motivation to create and analyze has renewed. Now, how about I apply that motivation to this weekly writing post and share my thoughts on last week’s presentations. 

I found it interesting how multiple projects focused on the importance of letters, either by themselves or in comparison to modern technology like phone calls and texting. Not saying that it’s a bad thing. But I think this general trend to argue why letters have value has a deeper meaning. And what, pray tell, is this meaning? Well, why did we all choose this seminar? Surely, not all of us are here because all the other seminars were full. Some may be here because we wrote letters to friends or family and felt a special connection with them. Others are here because they wish that people would write letters more often because they see value within it. Whatever the reason, most of us are here because we care about letters. We care enough about them to argue why others should care, too.

Another thing I noticed: our project topics may have varied greatly, but many of them contained the theme of human nature. And I find that really cool! Not biased or anything (cough don’t look at my project topic cough). But really, humanity seems to be the big idea behind letter writing. The way it humanizes people, the way that we use it to love, the way that the words we write show us at our most vulnerable, the way that it’s a tangible testament to our emotions, the way it inspires, the way it helps us when we’re at our lowest, the way it gives us a voice when we have none, the way… I’m running out of ways. But that’s still a lot. 

What was the quote that one of us used in their presentation? “To write a letter is human,” or something like that? But yeah, that’s the gist of what we’ve figured out this week. Send all of us out into an open world, and many end up with the same fundamental idea of letters and their humanity. Isn’t that just beautiful?