I Made An Email Newsletter For You!

Do you still read blogs these days? Like random blogs from random people doing random stuff?

🎉IF SO🎉

Then I am here for you!

I found this great platform that allows me to blog my heart out and lets me send it directly to your email inbox!

This is so you can read my randomness in the middle of a boring day, or a sad sleepless night. You know, just to fill your lonely days and miserable nights and we can both be miserable together.

Part of why I am doing this is because I am also trying to bring out some precious things that I think are losing value today: 1. a long-ass love letter; and 2. a good conversation.

What do I mean?

A LONG-ASS LOVE LETTER

Back in the days, when I was young and madly in love, I used to write love letters to profess my heart's inner desires for my partner. You could say my love language was words of affirmation. I used to convince my partner to keep a joint journal so we could write down romantic shiznit and give it to the other person when it’s their turn to write shit 😂 

I was never the best at communicating verbally. I couldn’t express myself well in speaking, but it tend to get easier when I wrote down the words I wanted to say. So I started writing my feelings out until I became so comfortable doing it. There were times when I felt like writing the good stuff about being in love. It became a habit that the only way to express it was by sitting down, opening that empty notebook, and writing my heart out.

It always felt extraordinarily nice, having to express how I felt in words and also read lovely stuff from the one I loved. Things would get really exciting when they write their plans with me. It would seem like the world was made up of the nows. No yesterdays, no tomorrows, just conquering the now and immortalizing it in the journal.

Those were my journals from back then. The blue one was the one we used to write letters, plans, and to-do lists with each other. The journal was a gift from a friend. She bought it from the U.S. for me because she knew that I loved to write a journal. The paper was so smooth and crisp. It felt like parchment. The cover was thick and soft. It really made a good love journal. It served its purpose back then now, lost and nowhere to be found lol

A GOOD CONVERSATION

Over time, I have learned the art of having a good conversation. The only thing I discovered I have to do when talking to someone is simply listening.

There is no trick to doing it. It’s not magic. It’s not even very hard to do. I have learned that by listening I am able to respond appropriately. I would be able to follow up questions and uncover so many things that I want by simply listening.

And talking to someone allows you to understand where people come from in terms of their beliefs and ideals in life.

I want to keep doing those things: keep a good conversation going through writing long-ass letters.

In today’s age and time, we are bound by consuming short-form content from videos, articles, and captions to stories that are way too simplified. I’m not saying that it’s bad, but we seem to deliberately choose to miss the little things.

Let’s all bring it back. Let’s have good old conversations through emails! Let’s start revealing the little things that matter. Let’s uncover the things that we don’t normally speak out loud because we think other people might judge us. Let’s discuss the world and everything around us. Let’s just be us.

The deal is I start the conversation with my random blog posts, and you reply with yours and we can be random together!

So let’s start filling each other with love, stories, and letters!

Love,

Elbert