Wednesday, December 16, 2009

letters to an old love.

Hi again!

I've made the desicion to dedicate a "chapter" of my book to high school, kind of as a final farewell, and also because I've been talking to many graduates who've mentioned their best and worst memories have all been clearly in high school.
So about a month ago, I came across a website (thanks to Kelsey!) called "Dear Old Love". The idea is, this person wrote letters to all their past loves summing up what they felt in one or two lines. I thought this was extremely amazing.
In this research and after reading all these posts, an idea came to me. If you had one letter to write to each person that had hurt you or abused your trust, or really caused something to stick out in your mind, what would you say to them? Even better, what if you had to write it in forgiveness?
So the rules are : there are none. You make them. You're doing the difficult part. You have to take a walk in their shoes, even if you can find one positive thing that maybe suggest that it wasn't completely terrible.
It can be anywhere from one line to several pages.
It can be to friends, family, lovers, perfect strangers. And there can be more than one.
You can remain completely anonymous.
Since all of you don't have access to seeing me in person, you can email me at bloggermacphale@live.com
if you decide write a letter.
It's good for your soul,
and in the spirit of the holidays and every other day of the year
maybe we should try a little forgiveness.
I wrote 14 myself.

Love love love,
and merry ho-ho!

Hails.

1 comment:

  1. I am looking forward to following you on your journey Hails, and too see the wonderous places it takes you...luvs
    Jim

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