A friend once told me. A handwritten note tells one a lot about the person. And how that person is a friend worth having she further added. Quickly, I’d like to point out that she is possibly right (on both points that is). With technology such as text messaging and electronic mail, getting a message across from friend A to friend B nowadays is just brilliantly easy — a few buttons on your laptop or mobile is all it takes. Don’t you agree?
A few weeks ago, I bought a much belated birthday card for one of my mates, Sharon at the local newsagency. Having the habit of personally writing birthday wishes on the rare occasion, The card was filled up with nothing less than a ‘Happy Birthday. May your wishes comes true’ message. I took time (not much but just enough) and sat and wrote. Not the purpose of reminding my friend that she was a year older but to leave a smile when she read it. She did smile (I hope).
A handwritten note is such a rare commodity nowadays that when you do receive one — the effort the person took does show (even if the handwriting is unbearable to look at) . Look at the last wedding invitation you received. Is your name handwritten or printed on it? A general note of advice: do handwrite your own wedding invitations.
Having the ability to design a birthday card on your computer doesn’t mean you need to. Print out the design and write your birthday wishes by hand. Trust me. The other person will appreciate it. Wouldn’t you?
Do you still receive handwritten notes e.g. birthday cards, love notes ?
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yeap…from my lil’ sis who still finds texting very troublesome. reading your post reminded me of all the notes we would write to each other in class!
Yes totally agreed! When you receive greeting cards, the printed one and the handwritten ones gave a totally different feel. Handwritten cards would show more sincerity in it.
@sarah Girls just love writing notes to each other in class, don’t they? They buy fancy cute letterheads just for this purpose.
@yung Handwritten notes do seem more sincere within some context. You wouldn’t say a doctor’s handwriting on your medication sincere right esp. how downright unreadable most of them are.
Hinching!!! you reminded me that you haven’t given me the card!
and yup, I wanted to be handwritten… Doesn’t really matter what the card looks like, the writing is much more valuable for me.