Motivation

Dear Self,

It’s been a while since you posted. I know you were busy moving, and that is a terrible and stressful accomplishment, especially when it’s over 90 degrees out, but you told yourself you would post at least once a week, and that just hasn’t been happening.

I often find that the promises I make myself are the hardest ones to keep. I promise I’ll stop snacking after 10pm, throw away my worn out socks, watch less TV, and remember to call my friends more. Yet here I am eating Cheez-Its at midnight, watching True Blood in socks I’ve owned since high school. I’ve collapsed under the weight of all these promises, stuck in a land of not unpacking my dishes or even going outside for that matter.

I’m going to try and change, though. I know that just one more promise to myself thrown on to the small mountain of them I keep in my room, right beside my dirty clothes hamper. I just need a little motivation.

Motivation is a hard thing to come by. Life’s so much easier, if much emptier, without it. And once I get going, I find myself enjoying the task I’ve put off for so long. I just have to start.

So this is it.

I’m going to buy new socks, and throw away the old ones.

Turn off the TV.

Get up off my ass.

And write.

Love,

Gena

p.s. I make no guarantees about the snacking. Cheez-Its are delicious.

Hello Internet,

You may be wondering what a blog about letters is doing here in the virtual world. It's simple, really. I love writing letters, love the sending and receiving of a piece of writing that was created just for me. Most people I know share these feelings. However, in this digital age, it has become increasingly more difficult to actually sit down with pen and paper to express myself to friend. Also, my handwriting is atrocious.

That's where this blog comes in. I want to write letters to people. My friends, my family, my acquaintances, co-workers, the people I see on the street, perfect strangers. I want to write them letters about things that interest them and are important to them.

But I can't know what those things are, unless you, the people on the internet reading this, tell me. So send me an email, and I will write you a (virtual) letter. Let me tell you what I think. It might be an anecdote from my life, something cool I heard on NPR, or something completely made up. It will all be true in some way, though.

I look forward to hearing from you.

With anticipation,

Gena