I've always liked to write. All my life I've been doing some kind of writing or other. In primary and secondary schools I faithfully wrote in my diary on a regular basis. I enjoyed the composition writing in those days too, when we could use our imagination and spin our own stories. ( Granted, I liked looking at the good scores I almost always got. Having my essay read in class, or photocopied and pinned on the class board, was something I was proud of. :D ) In secondary school and junior college, outside of the necessary essays (which became argumentative and less fun in JC), I liked to write little poems. Whether or not they were any good is besides the point. I started blogging too, and writing letters to the friends I saw in school regularly. Sometime after JC, I resumed diary-writing, but up till now it has never been as enthusiastic as my primary/secondary heyday. The use of computers is so widespread nowadays, it's almost no surprise that most people would rather hammer at their keyboards than pick up a pen and paper. Maybe my diary-writing has largely been consumed by blogging, but for the personal touch I still want letters, not emails.