People all over the country have an opportunity to remember and embrace the handwritten word today since September 1 is World Letter Writing Day.
BIC has launched a challenge for people to pen a letter today, calling for adults and children to pick up a pen or pencil to write down a letter to a loved one, a role model, or even young or future selves.
South Africans can celebrate the world-renowned day by penning a letter today through the #WritewithBIC challenge, engaging their creative sides.
The Marketing Director for BIC South East and Central Africa, Lillian Henderson said, “There’s incredible power in the pen and pencil. The ability to put words and pictures to paper is a gift; a tool for expressing and displaying progression in life.”
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From learning how to write at school, the exams to learning how to write informal love letters, and signing your first contract, there is just something special about the actual act of writing.
One psychologist, Reabetsoe Buys said, “The relevance of putting words on paper has not been lost even in an age where the digital media has made connecting simpler, because letter writing is personal, thoughtful, and can even be therapeutic.”
Buys explained that letter writing does not only excite the receiver because of the gesture, it also benefits the writer.
He said, “Handwriting has been proven to stimulate creativity which is something most people may not get the chance to do in their day to day lives as writing a letter helps people live in their present moments, switching off the auto-pilot mode we operate in, most times unaware. Letters even help us reflect, they require the writer to carefully consider what they are putting down on paper and how they would like it to be received.”
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