This Week: A Letter of Apology

No matter how much some try to deny it, we’re all somehow wired to connect. I don’t think humans would amount to anything if we never learned to communicate. This week, we’ll tap into that age-old instinct to communicate. We’re going to write a letter.

Do people still write personal letters? I have no statistics but I’m pretty sure they don’t number as much as they did before the internet. Could you blame people for preferring a much faster way of communication? If my mother were sick and she wrote me a letter I know I’d prefer if I knew right away instead of three days later.

Maybe it’s the uninterrupted free flow of thought or the experience of the whole writing-and-waiting-and-reading-and-writing-and-waiting process; but there’s a certain charm to personal letters.

Apologies

Writing an apology assumes depth. When we write an apology, we do not simply write “sorry” as most people do nowadays. An apology suggests that somewhere in history, a wrong was committed; and the apology must bear the weight of that wrong. We all know a good apology comes from the heart; the ones that wring forgiveness out of our hearts.

I guess to put it simply, this week, we must write from the heart.

Again, you have creative freedom. You can write it from the heart of a character, fictional or a non-fictional. You can come from anywhere as long as the words come from the heart ☺

This should be fun. Good luck!