Call Me Old-Fashioned

Handwritten letters are going out of style, and it's obvious why: typing is so much easier.  Your hand doesn't cramp, and your words are faster; erasing is irrelevant, just press delete and it's as if it never existed: no ghost of your mistake imprinted on the page.  What's more, emails and texts reach their recipients in minutes; letters could take days, or even weeks, so that the information is no longer fresh and the receiver is left behind.  Letters are old-fashioned, and maybe that's what attracts me to them: I've always been a fan of modernizing tradition, keeping it true to its roots but repurposing it for the desires of the new age.  While I understand the drawbacks to using a pencil over a keyboard, and (as you can see) tend to use the latter more myself, a word drawn by hand, in my opinion, has more character and integrity than a standardized font on a bone-white computer screen.  And now that typing has become the norm, written word carries all the more weight: the intended reader must mean something to the writer for him to take the time to cross all his own t's and dot his own i's.  In all, writing with your own hand is more personal than using technology to try and convey your thoughts: screens don't stain and crease, every letter matches every other one, and a part of you is removed from your message.  So, though I will admit I prefer typing for its convenience, it can never replace handwriting.