Almost no memory correspondence

     The letter from correspondence did not interest me very much though I am here now talking about it. These letters were from Henrietta a freshman high school student who had a large interest in South America. She was doing her class assignment of writing letters to a pen pal. Her pen pal never did respond throughout the entire collection of letters.
     There are a few messages I feel I can pull out of this. The first is to always honor your word, why would you say you would do something and then never do it? Manoel, Henrietta's pen pal, had his name on the list of people to send a letter to for her class. He never responded to any of the letters. Many months had passed and he had not written back a single letter even though he said he would. This just shows that not following through with your word can hurt people.
     The other thing that this collection of letters can also show is to not hang onto things you care about forever. Henrietta wrote letter after letter without ever getting one back. She cared greatly about other cultures and this was more than just an assignment to her. She waited months and wrote more letters simply hoped for a response from Manoel; she never got one though. She had to realize that it was not meant to be, even though all of her classmates got letters back and she was the one to actually care about the assignment. She wasn't just writing a letter, she was exploring an interest and she had to reach a point where she had to hang it up.
     The next story that I read was about a woman who wrote a story that no center. She was not a religious woman but wrote a religious story about a hurricane that came toward her village and didn't actually hit it. It was also about a man who was very ill and asked her to stop by but none of these three things were highlighted enough in the story to actually be what the story was about. How i feel about this is that you can not spread yourself too thin, because then you will not be anybody. if there isn't enough of "you" to go around then why would you even be doing it in the first place. You need to define yourself as a person by doing things you enjoy, such as her writing a story about one topic instead of too many things.
     In this story one line really stood out to me "blasphemy proved one's belief in God". This line really caught my eye because blasphemy is the act of disliking, disobeying or even not believing in a spiritual entity. That sentence though disproves the idea of even being able to perform blasphemy. It creates a loophole where as if you don't want to believe in a god, you have to first accept the idea that one exists in order to not believe in it.