Message in a bottle

I was reading the newspaper today, it mentioned an Australian student from Melbourne wrote a letter then put it in a bottle, throw it into the Atlantic ocean in spring of 2009 as it was a project of his marine biology course at Florida Atlantic University here at our doorstep. A 17 years old boy from Ireland picked up this bottle at a small fishing village in Ireland while spending time with his family vacation a few days ago.

Guess what?! Through the current of the Atlantic ocean, we are not that far apart. A regular airmail with the cheapest fair would take 2 weeks to send a letter to Ireland, this way it's free and it only took 1 and a half year but you don't know who is going to receive it. Funny, isn't it?!

The boy and his father, who is of course in vacation with him along other family members are very excited to reply this trans-Atlantic letter to this Australian student.

However, this student was in surprised, stated that he would never thought someone will receive his letter in the bottle. I just found it very fun to read this article, I did something like this when I was a little girl, probably 10 - 12 years old I don't quite remember. Nevertheless I wasn't knowledgeable enough to know the current in South China Sea merges into the Pacific Ocean, nor there was an email address to allow someone to send you a message in a second in those days.

I have a good habit to write down what piss me off on a piece of paper, or we shall call it a letter. Then let it hangs for a few days to decide to send it or not. My usual practice is I made all the points I had to make in the letter, explain myself very clearly and describe my feelings very truly to someone I am writing to. Then I put a hold onto the letter, decide to send it out or not 3 days later, to tell you the truth it was very rarely I send that letter out after 3 days but it was a good practice that I let my thoughts out on a piece of paper, so emotionally I am not trapping anything inside of me, at the same time I don't just lash it out onto someone nears me or working for me at that time, it acts as a very good buffer and the fact was it worked while no one is getting upset.

Shall you have anything bugs you from the policy of your club or your spouse's crazy ideas; write it down on a piece of paper --- now I would change my move, instead of hanging onto it for 3 days, stuff it into a bottle and throw it to the Atlantic Ocean.