2014-03-18 To Al. and to C.

2014-03-18

Hello Al./C.,23

This letter is just to reassure you. Tell you that now I don’t have enough time to answer your letter as you deserve. Just tell you that you write very well.

The beauty of writing letters is the patience and freedom that you gain as a sender and that you grant to your interlocutor. This is not a WhatsApp message that I can or you can reply to immediately. This is for you, and I take some of my time to give you my best. Because you deserve it. But this requires patience, it requires my time.

New technologies have destroyed patience and waiting, and time. But I, writing to you by letter, give your time back to you. The time left until my answer comes, the real one, the one that is for you, you don’t have to stay passively in front of a screen eager to receive my message. You can do a thousand other things. (Study, read, walk, sunbathe…). Write more letters to your friends, for example, P. (from Pisuerga) is not in her best moments lately. But instead of running and sending her a WhatsApp saying “How are you?”, I would prefer, and probably she’d too, that you will spend a little more of your time sending her a letter telling her how you are, and that you would like to know how she is. She is also your friend, and she will be pleased to know something about how your life is going.

I have no time left. So, I ask you for a few days of patience so that I can answer you more appropriately. In addition, I give you the wait, so you can fill it with productivity and creation, reading, writing, studying, walking, sun, light …

A hug,

Carlos

Leuven, March 18, 2014.

  1. Yes, I was doing recycling some letters back on the days. I was sending them separatedly, though↩