When I say we need to bring back pen pals, I really mean we need to give the medium new life. Pen pals are also a common way to boost your writing skills when learning a new language. After all, the practice never died out and it’s easy to find resources to help you start writing letters. Still, I think the idea of pen pals has potential, and I’d like to see it widely adopted by a new generation of letter writers. In a surprise to no one, my pen-pal relationships that fared best and lasted longest were those based on email. Unfortunately, that fizzled out after a few letters. It wasn’t until university when a couple of my friends from the internet and I decided to write letters to one another. Instead, emails rendered letter writing obsolete in all but the most formal circumstances.
It seemed back then that writing letters would be a big part of my adult life. In elementary school, we were told to write letters to fellow students from across the province on two occasions. Without autocorrect, message history, or any other innovations beyond the technology of the late 19th century. I’m calling for the return of hard-copy, pen-on-paper letters here.
And not necessarily email pen pals, where we just write long messages to one another. Okay hear me out: we should bring back pen pals.
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