TED (project)

Hannah Brencher - Love Letters to Strangers. 


Hannah was brought up with letters to communicate rather using electrical devises. People may find this quite strange, but because of this bizarre habit she was able to inspire many individuals life and even saving them. 
After Hannah moved to NY, she started to write same love letters her mother used to write for her to complete strangers, due to her depression. She wrote these letters and hid them away around the city, hoping people will find them and give them inspiration to carry on. Afterwards she blogged about these letters, promising them that she'll send anyone a love letter. Just after a day her inbox filled up with many heart breaking stories, asking her for help, a love letter.
 In Hannah's view 'most of them have been written by people that never known themselves loved on a piece of paper' for this generation have been communicating via electronical messages, and writing letters have started to vanish. Writing letters helped many people to communicate and it is love on paper, e.g. A man who decided to take his life and used Facebook to say goodbye to his family and friends. But because of the love letters he received from strangers, he sleeps soundlessly. 
Hannah proves that letter writing does not compare to communicating to someone electronically, letters have an outstanding affect on people, it makes one want it to keep it close to our hearts, look back on at the pages again and again just for reassurance. 
Her selfless act contributed to many other individuals writing love letters, encouraging and guiding each other, sacrificing their own personal time to help a stranger whose in need. Overall I believe what Hannah shared to this society is beautiful and inspiring, we need more people like her.