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The Cost of a Handwritten Letter
The blister breaks. The ink mixes with blood. That is the hidden beauty of a handwritten letter, it costs time you can never recover.
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"The medium is the message." – Marshall McLuhan
One day, future generations may never truly know what it feels like to write a handwritten letter.
Not a message tucked inside a birthday card.
Several handwritten pages filled with thoughts, memories, questions, and emotions.
The kind of letter you wrote because there were things too important to trust to a conversation.
The kind of letter where your thoughts began flowing faster than your hand could keep up.
Where every sentence felt like it had been waiting years to be written.
You are no longer remembering the experience. You are writing it.
Midway through the page, your fingers begin to ache.
A blister starts to form where the pen rests.
You stop for a moment, rub your hand, then keep writing.
Because you know that if you put the pen down for too long, the moment may pass and with it, the words you've searched so hard to find.
Then, in the midst of the message, the blister breaks.
Hours later, you notice tiny drops of blood mixed with the ink dried on the paper.
Looking back, it almost feels appropriate.
Not because pain makes the words more meaningful.