Postcards

I love postcards. I love to send it out and receive it as well. An A6 card has different surprises. One page of it is a designed picture or photographs, such as landscape, painting, people, food or goods. The other side of the card is an empty space for people to write their words or draw, and the postage address.

It is either a souvenir, a record or memory of a journey, or blessing. I always share my feelings and experiences of a trip and a place I visit through a postcard. Sometimes I write down wishes and blessing to friends miles away.

I am a collector of postcards. I joint Postcrossing and collect postcards from around the world. It’s interesting and exciting to share and read the stories or culture from the other side of the world. I am not only a collector of postcards but also a collector of memories and stories, like Frank Doei in novel 84, Charing Cross Road.

The reason why I love postcards is the space for hand-writing. When did pick up your pen and write a letter or postcard to a friend? Within the technology popularity, people are impossibly relying on technology products such as phones and laptops. Few and few people heavily rely on pen and papers, even drawing can be done on computers. But hand-drawing and handwriting are still important in the nowadays industry, especially the graph design industry.

Handwriting is a fascinating subject displaying a person’s emotion and personality. It is also an identity of showing a person’s personality, characteristics and social status from the font of writing, the pen and ink and the paper.

I prefer handwriting rather than typing. Snail mails take a longer time to delivery, but it could reduce the emotional and psychological distances among relationships.