You know, in 2001, the easiest way of showing your friends and relatives
that you are always and still thinking of them, is just a click away,
pushing that forward button on your e-mail program and sending a joke, a
picture or a file, with your name on the top as the sender. But according to
my own surveys, it won't work the way you think it does. It is sometimes
annoying and it really hurts your friends to receive hundreds of joke junk
e-mails, almost always the same old junks and jokes or pictures and files
you can easily find in any ordinary websites on the Internet and you will
receive sooner or later by one of your friends who has just joined the
community of the World Wide Web. However, I believe, there is just another
way to show your friends how you feel about them, how you missed them and
why you have decided to write to them and that's only writing two lines of
what you have in your mind and deep in your heart. Only two lines of one of
your pleasant memories can surely shrink and shorten the distance between
you and your audience. Only two lines of simple words and phrases can lead
you to the heart of your reader.

Open your e-mail program, start composing a new message (and not just that
funny forwarding button), write your first line, use the name or nickname of
your pal, say hi and continue with your own feelings: Hey ... you know what?
I miss you so much, I was just thinking of/about you, I feel so great while
I am writing this to you, you know, you are my best friend, a great part of
my life, ... and whatever you feel at that time, only in one single line you
can just do it. But you want to share something - let's say a text, an
article or a joke or a beautiful poem, a remarkable quotation - with your
readers, end your first line with something like this: "Hey I want you to
read this too ... or look what I've found on the Internet, ... or what do
you think about this?" then by using a simple copy-and-paste function, add
that piece of writing or picture right after your own first line.

And believe me it works, your reader will remember you throughout the day,
week or month and sometimes the year with the same emotions you wanted to
transfer with your e-mail, and every single memory he or she has, of you,
with
you and for you. But don't leave your message there with that piece of
writing or picture added, start your second line, invite your reader to keep
on reading to the end of your e-mail message, say something interesting or
exciting about your yesterday, or today, something you have never said
before, something new in your life, in your work, your new friends, your new
findings. Believe me, it takes less than two minutes and it keeps your
relationships closer and stronger. One another important note, if you use a
piece of writing that belongs to someone else, make sure you include his/her
by-line and the resource box at the end of the article. In this way, the
author of that article, the painter of that painting, the photographer of
that picture which you have just inserted in your e-mail will never forget
you and he/she will always appreciate you.

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