It may have been a while since you last received a personal letter in the mail, but you probably remember how it made you feel. Penpalling is a hobby that anyone can pick and you don’t need any extraordinary skills for it. There are numerous reasons why people should take up penpalling, but most significantly it offers an opportunity to learn about other nations and their cultures. You can learn about a person’s everyday life, living on the opposite side of the world. Friendship can be devoid of physical human contact and it is possible to develop a long-term friendship through penpalling. Read on to find out why this old-fashioned hobby is worth giving a try. Nostalgia Remember your childhood days when you hunched over that lined sheet of paper, pencil in hand? You wrote letters to your school friends during the vacations, offering minute details about the most mundane things. You whipped out your crayons and drew butterflies and rainbows on the back, and anxiously waited for your friend to write back to you. Those were the days, weren’t they? You can revive the nostalgia through penpalling. Mental travel We all like to travel. Your penpalling adventures could be just as good as real traveling but at a much lesser cost. You can learn about other countries, their food, music, culture and everyday living. Try new recipes from your penpal and you can also paste newspaper clippings of tourist attractions along with your letter. Confidant Through penpalling you can finally have someone to share your deepest darkest secrets with. You can talk about your family and friends and there is almost no chance that anything you tell your penpal will get to anyone who is not supposed to know. Affordable hobby If you like talking about yourself, start writing to a penpal and get interested in their life too. This hobby costs less and doesn’t require anything more than a ton of inexpensive stationeries like paper, pens, envelopes, and postal stamps. But if you like, you can always get a little creative with stickers and washi tapes. Happy mailbox Balance all those notices and bills with envelopes stuffed with goodies and long letters from your penpal across the sea. It is always fun to open a mail that doesn’t require a check to be sent within days. Those colorful envelopes full of interesting stories of a life lived somewhere else are the perfect end to long days. So start writing and enjoy the experience of connecting with people from all over the world!
