A handwritten letter is evidence: someone blocked off a piece of their finite life and spent it thinking only about you. The reason people keep boxes of old letters they almost never reread isn't sentimentality — it's that the modern world stopped producing that kind of proof, and they know they can't replenish the supply. The post Psychology says people who keep handwritten letters in a box at the back of a closet aren’t sentimental, they’re holding evidence that someone once took thirty minutes to think only about them, and the world doesn’t generate that proof anymore appeared first on Space Daily .
Psychology says people who keep handwritten letters in a box at the back of a closet aren’t sentimental, they’re holding evidence that someone once took thirty minutes to think only about them, and the world doesn’t generate that proof anymore
