EMAIL IS N O T OBSOLETE.....NEITHER IS SNAIL-MAIL!!!!!!!

I venture here to repeat myself, because I feel SO strongly about this. I am a firm believer in the Native American idea of "walking a mile in another person's moccassins".....which the author of this piece obviously neglected to do.

NOT everyone in the world has a computer at home...and/or the time to visit the library, (where computer usage is often given in 20 minute intervals.....do try that some time if you've never done it!). And, that said, not everyone has texting capabilities.....or wishes to spend the extra money that texting from a cell-phone involves!

WHY I FEEL SO STRONGLY ABOUT THIS.....My sweet, wonderful parents were the greatest.....no smoking, no swearing, no excessive drinking, (usually only for "kiddush" on Friday nights), no arguing.ey were truly in love, and truly loved my sister and me. But -- like all human beings -- they weren't perfect. Their main faults? To themselves -- they never realized how wonderful and special they were. (False modesty can be as bad as false pride!!!!) To my sister and me............especially when we were little......................th­ey didn't take us seriously. I swore as a child I would ALWAYS take EVERYONE, (and their problems) SERIOUSLY. Children, the old, the poor.....EVERYONE DESERVES TO BE TAKEN SERIOUSLY!!!!!!!! I got my first computer in 2001, when I was way over 35! I know and remember how it is not to have your own computer at home!

My present cell-phone, (my very first), is a pay-as-you-go-17cents-a-minute­-deal.....with NO specials for nights and weekends. As I stay home most of the time, I find using my land-based, (regular) phone for most things, and my tiny cell-phone for emergencies only, fits me (and my budget),. very nicely. Besides, in blackouts and other emergencies, cell phones are not supposed to work.....and a land-based phone will! It is not only cheaper, but VITAL to have a land-line phone! I cannot understand how so many people I know have ONLY cell-phones. It is dangerous.....and it is expensive!

So, although I do own a personal computer, (and thus can send e-mail to anyone at any time I wish), I refuse to pay the exhorbitant rates for having a cell-phone only, (for texting purposes), and I refuse to lose the safety of having a land-based telephone! IT IS ONE OF THE CHEAPEST FORMS OF INSURANCE THERE IS!

Lest we forget, not everyone even has their own land-based phone at home......and not everyone has a home, either! Alarming news, told to me by a friend, states that most telephone companies WANT TO DO AWAY WITH ALL PUBLIC PHONES, SO THAT ONE MUST EITHER HAVE ONE'S OWN CELL-PHONE, OR BE NEAR TO SOMEONE SO THEY CAN BORROW A FEW MINUTES ! ( AND NOT EVERYONE WILL DO THIS!!!!!)

Please, everybody, walk a few miles in other people's shoes......those who have no personal computer, those who have a personal computer, but no cell phone, those who prefer to keep their land-based phones, and those who have no homes, no phones, and no computers at all!

E-MAIL, SNAIL-MAIL, AND LAND-BASED PHONES ARE ...N O T ...DEAD! AND I HOPE FOR THE SAKE OF THE SAFETY.....SANITY....AND BUDGETS OF ALL PEOPLE.....THAT THESE THINGS WILL NEVER BE DEAD, WILL NEVER BE OBSOLETE. WE NEED THEM ALL!!!!!