Letters I’ve written, never meaning to send.

Unsent letters are letters that are written, addressed but never sent. By not sending the letter and knowing you won’t send it, you can be fully honest to the recipient about your feelings of love, joy, anger or any other feelings without jeopardising that relationship.

You get to work out your feelings and thoughts on paper about another person, without the possibility of repercussions of the other person ever reading the letter.

The point is to clear your mind of the thoughts to or about them. By putting your thoughts down, you make them tangible. Once written, your thoughts and feelings can be worked through and understood, until then they may be just a jumble or confusion in your head.

To ex lovers; or to a lover now, if you feel confused, are being abused or asked too soon for commitments.

 To a person you may have wronged and might wish to apologise to. They may have forgotten the situation, moved away or died, but you, however can still work through your feelings.

Reminders to yourself; unsent letters can be for you. Writing a letter to yourself to be read in the future is useful in communicating between your future, past and present selves. Possibly too about your goals, dreams, ambitions or reminders not to do something…

Letters to you: unique thoughts, revisiting these thoughts when the day has been difficult or when down can restart that creative spark within. Use these to reconnect to the joy of you and your unique process.

Letter to you; one of the most underused, so write to yourself about what made you happy today, mark it: ‘read on a down day’ and read it then.

If you find that a particular journal entry is very happy, or reminds you of something you would like to revisit, jot down on a piece of paper the date of the entry, so that when the event arrives you can open your journal to that entry.

Use the last page of your journal to write a list of letters contained in your journal.

(—O—)

How do you feel about the portrait you have created so far?

Have you defined yourself as the person you always wanted to be, or are you a “work in progress”?

Are you achieving your full potential as a human being?

Do you feel frustrated, incomplete, unfulfilled, and uncertain how to capture the meaning that you most desire in your life?

Have you discovered your purpose in life, the mission that only you can fulfil? 

Do you feel rootless, unsure about the direction your life should take?

Do you possess a clear philosophy of life that acts as a guiding beacon, illuminating the whole of your life and showing you the path to wisdom and personal fulfilment?

(—O—)

Do you;

Think Critically?

Live Creatively?

Choose Freely?

Solve Problems Effectively?

Communicate Effectively?

Analyse Complex Issues?

Develop Enlightened Values?

Think Through Relationships?

What gets in the way?

What do you do over and over again for this to happen?

What could you do different rather than do this?