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Thank you letters.Whenever I was a child (from the age of about 4 onwards) after Christmas/my birthday my parents would force me to write thank you letters to anyone who had given me a present.I don’t mean a couple of lines either. I mean four closely written sides of writing paper. The main problem for me was that I had to write neatly. My handwriting is truly awful. As in, it makes doctors’ handwriting look neat. Writing neatly for me takes literally more than an hour, and makes my hand hurt like hell. Messy writing plus no lines to write on? Nightmare 101.All my friends/cousins and so on were never made to write proper, grown up thank you letters. They either just said thank you in person (which I obviously already did) or used the Microsoft word template , where they just had to write in by hand the name of the person, and sign it by hand. Everything else was ready typed in the template. It was easy, no thought was required. If they actually had to write anything by hand, it would be two messy lines on a piece of A4 lined paper.Instead, I had to write lengthy thank you letters. A paragraph thanking them, and saying what I would use the present for/how much I enjoyed it. Another paragraph telling them about my recent life. Another paragraph asking how they’d been getting on. Another paragraph asking to meet up soon.Any spelling mistakes, and I would have to rewrite the damn thing. Slightly messy handwriting? I’d have to rewrite. I got the exact layout of the letter wrong? I’d have to rewrite. I used the wrong greeting? Rewrite.I truly loathed doing it. I’d complain. Why couldn’t I just say thanks in person? Joe’s parents don’t make him write letters. Why couldn’t I use lined paper? Etc, etc, etc. In hindsight, my parents can’t have been too happy on those days either.A whining child and a truculent teenager are not ideal company.However, now that I’m older, I understand why they did it.Getting a thank you letter - that is, a proper, personal, handwritten, real thank you letter - really is a joy. It actually makes you feel valued, actually conveys the writer’s gratitude in a way that just a verbal thank you/a typed letter or template simply cannot do.Having this skill is useful for your whole life. Even when you aren’t an 8 year old writing to your Aunt Jane to thank her for the Barbie doll she got you, or a 14 year old thanking Uncle Tony for his $50 dollar gift, it’s useful. Did you go to a new city for a week and crash with your friend at his place instead of using a hotel? A thank you letter always goes down well. Did an acquaintance give up their lunch hour to help you rewrite your resume? A thank you letter always goes down well. And so on.Sure, it’s always nice to receive a bottle of whisky or a bunch of flowers as a token of someone’s appreciation for what you did, but a handwritten thank you letter really tops all that. It is personal, and shows how much the writer cares. True, the $40 bottle of whisky might be more expensive, but which actually took more thought, time and effort?I still don’t like writing thank you letters, but I can and do write them. And I love receiving them.Thanks, parents!

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