Looking past the fact that I consider last week’s project to be a complete failure, there are a couple of things that I want to say about the project.

Although I chose to write a letter to a friend from my past that inspired me to be more creative, there were a number of individuals who I could have written a letter to as well.

I thought of writing one to past teachers of mine that I admire and have great respect for. I also thought of writing to some family members to let them know why I admire them, because sadly that type of thing does not get said enough in my family. Then there are the people whom I interact with on a regular basis that I admire for a variety of reasons.

In the end I had to “settle” on just one person to write a letter to for this project, just to keep it manageable and that person happened to be Amy.

With that said, there really isn’t any excuse why I can’t or shouldn’t write similar letter to more people more often. Not only does writing such a letter make me feel better on the inside, but I am sure that others would enjoy receive them, I know I would.

On that note, there really isn’t any reason why others¹ can’t do something similar. I am sure there is someone you admire, that has inspired you or that you want to say Thank You to, and what better way to do it than in a letter.

One things to note: An important piece of this project was to mail the letter via “snail mail” rather than email as doing so makes it much more of a personal gesture in my opinion.

A next step would be to send a handwritten letter, but in my case no person would be able to read it, so that’s a “ go-go” for me.

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