A Promise To Write Back- A cross post.

This is a letter exchange project started by an unassuming working class individual from Manila, Philippines.  Realizing the ornate ordinariness that constitutes the work life of the writer and author of this blog, she decided to contribute and ignite her passion for writing letters and essentially the written word through the birth of this project.

Describing her need to read and write random musings and ramblings, of which can be classified from (rewriting) and (proof-reading) event announcements, nutrition labels, exuberant commercial poster copies to handwritten postcards, lost letters from the past, to dusty books juxtaposed with 30 yr. old Reader's Digest and National Geographic Magazines, it can be simply put that her thirst to learn the affairs of the world through reading, is simply, unabashedly insatiable.

More than the pursuits of the author herself, this is a small yet hopefully, in its own snail-paced way, significant. Significant in the matters of the compassion- because it allows the writer from both ends to believe that someone, somewhere out there would still carefully read and actually appreciate a note to express even the most minute happiness of your heart. Second, for the matters of keeping a tradition - letters has been around since time in memorial. We, the educated, wise and forward-thinking individuals of today, owe it to letters that humankind's history is well endowed with scientific and institutionalized preservation methods. Our history lives because somewhere during the course of our evolution we have a letter dug up, hence revealing a moment from the past and studied and archived in a tight vault somewhere in this world. Lastly, for the matters of expressing an artform- writing for me, is an artform. May it be a letter, a poem, a single line sentence, it will mirror the very depths of your soul. It can either define that particular moment in your life as you write it down, or it can defy it. Like a true artist honing its craft, writing letters is a self-image manifested in carefully, passionately crafted words. It is your heaven and hell, what you write is what you feel, truly an artform.

Write anything. Write the events of your life that you're willing to share to the rest of the world. Write both the yearning and tidings of your heart, your life, or even your pet's. It doesn't matter, expect to be written back as a promise and a gratitude for your trust. Expect the most positive light in every letter, so in her own little way, the favor will be brought and sent back to you, from the stranger from not so far away, wanting to write letters.