Write anonymous letters to strangers and leave them in public places.

I left a very optimistic letter telling the reader to be happy just being themselves in a photo printer in a walmart. I went back the next day and it was gone. I have often wondered about that letter and about who found it. I like to think that I may have made a difference in someones life and changed their perspective a little. I am looking forward to leaving many more letters in the future.

What should i write in my anonymous letter? I have no clue what to write on it.

a few people are doing this goal, and I would love to do it, but I have ‘no clue’ what to write, because I don’t want to “scare” the people who might find the letter. For example, what if I write a letter about how I hate the world (I would never write that, but just for example) – I don’t want people to read the letter and go like ‘Omg, what kind of psycho would write this?’ You know?

So, I wondered if there are people who could tell me what they write to strangers. Just for the inspiration, of course.

im not sure i want to do this any more??

Well i think Im going to do this soon…I like it…i like it muchly. =D More people should do this…but what do you write to a stranger?? xx

I just have to place my letter in a public place for someone to hopefully pick up and read. I’ve decided that I’m not going to think about what I’m writing so much. I’ll just let my letters be what I feel like them being. Whether it be short or long, advice or ranting, maybe I’ll even share something in a letter that I wouldn’t tell people normally…. I don’t want to put limits on it.

It’s something that shouldn’t be thought too deeply over.
Which is great, because I tend to think too much anyhow, haha.

I think this’ll be fun :)

wow i just came by this subject and it sounds so interesting man the last time I wrote a letter was to my uncle in Georgia and that was years ago.

hhhmmm sounds like an interesting idea. i used to write on walls when i was a kid, so “why not”!

I’ve … done this, but without the ‘public places’ part …

I was never sure if it was going to be an ethical or moral thing to do, but I considered as many aspects of the situation as I could before I sent my first letter, and always came down on the side of ‘its better to regret something you have done than something you havnt’

You see, I send my letters TO people.

At their home addresses.

I never look at their names, just pick some random address from an on-line directory or local (paper) listing of residential addresses.

I send them THE letter.

I never try to remember where it is that I sent it – that’s not the point.

I know they recieve the letter. I know they read it.
I guess what they do, how they physically handle it and what they might be thinking.
I understand the different thoughts and emotions that it evokes in them …

... as a stranger, to a stranger.

I take as much care as I can with the letter to emphasise that this is not a threat, not a cause for concern.

It is a link in a chain that cannot be traced – it came from somewhere but leads … wherever the recipient wishes.

It does not exhort politics, religion, money, contain any personal information, threats, blackmail, criticism, appeals, requests, or anything that might cause offence (other than the apprehension of recieving an unsolicited letter from a stranger who cannot be traced – and I do my best to lay that one to rest).

I have everything that I could wish for or want by the time they read the letter.

I know they recieved it. I know they read it.

What happens after that is personal to them – I will never know what they chose to do.

Did they destroy it?

Did they keep it?

Did they write their own letter to a stranger?

Did they forward the letter I sent them?

Strangers often do some altruistic things for other strangers.

They give them money, lifts in their cars, a friendly smile, the time of day, organ transplants, one-night stands, save their lives, hold open doors, act as surrogate mothers, buy them a drink.

Why not send a stranger a letter?

But without the possibility of a reply?

Who wins? Who loses?

This is not chain-mail. What happens after is of no relevence to me. I have the knowledge that the letter I sent, handwritten, on handmade paper, with a stamp, with love, with feeling, with a wax seal, to a stranger, who I will never recieve a reply from … got there. Intimate enough.

The rest is up to the recipient, and whatever they decide, it’s the right decison for them – that’s OK by me.

It started out out as ‘pay it forward’ meets ‘the letter from the prisoner in the film ”’V’ for Vendetta” ’ combined with old-fashioned letter writing.

I can’t get back the letters I’ve already written – that’s partly the point. But if I’m going off-piste with this, I’d appreciate a little (or a lot!) of fine tuning.

I shall do this the next time I go somewhere big, like the mall or something. Or maybe when I get back to school in September? But that’s so long from now…