The inventions of modern technology are playing an important role today. They have changed our daily lives and the whole world a lot. The email, for example, is one of the wonderful developments in this computerized era. We have taken a great advantage of using it everyday since it was popular everywhere. However, I think we are losing the enjoyment of handwriting, reading, and delivering letters; in fact, those are the three ways the email has diminished our quality of life.
First of all, we send email by typing instead of handwriting; actually, an increasing number of people don’t use pen to write a letter any longer. It seems we lose nothing when we enjoy the convenience and speed of typing on the computer. There is a variety of arts and skills for us to use in the computer typing. We can choose different types of fonts in computer which are as beautiful as handwriting. However, we are losing the enjoyable process of writing by hands. Human beings have been using handwriting for several thousands of years. We can show our skills, arts and character traits through handwriting. There is so much happiness and satisfaction when we write the words with our hands one by one. In addition, people’s handwritings are changeable when their emotion and life experiences change. As a whole, those are our valuable cultural heritage.
Secondly, the experiences of reading the traditional letters can hardly be replaced by reading email. The messages in email are mostly short and simple. The main purpose of email is information exchange. Computers can make the email not only neat but also colourful; furthermore, we can even email our letter with sounds and pictures. Email system tries to satisfy the user by doing all that it has been ordered to do, but we lose something. For one thing, people lose the passion to write a letter like writing a literary works; that is, people express their feelings and emotions in traditional letters more than in email that makes a difference when we read them. In addition, the places where we read the letters are more varied. Lovers hid and read their love letters under the quilt and cried. At wartime, mothers received their children’s letters from battlefields; they then carried the letters to anywhere they went and read them again and again whenever they had time; it seemed to them that they could hear the terrible sounds from the wailing bombers while they read the letter. Even the ordinary friends can feel the sincere concern from the familiar handwriting of the letter he got.
Thirdly, mailmen used to play the Santa Claus role in many cultures to some extent. They not only delivered the letters but also distributed the loves, concerns, care, and relationship from door to door. People expected their arrival at the same time everyday. The pictures of some nice mailmen greeted everybody kindly in the village still vivid in my mind. As a matter of fact, it can’t be seen nowadays. Today, Post office is becoming less important and mailmen have become cold. They deliver some trashy flyers and cold documents only. They will lose their job, and we will lose a precious life experience in the near future.
Everyone looks forward to enjoying the lives of high technology, and every country pursues the same goal of modernization. One of my standards to judge a country’s or a person’s quality is whether or not they allow people (or allow himself) to keep their past wistfully while they move to the high-tech society. Therefore, most nice countries have varieties of reservation areas, heritage parks and historical museums; and for individuals, it is always a good idea to spare themselves a small mental room to stay in the past and keep their lives balanced between the future and the past.
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