While we often feel annoyed or anxious when people take forever to reply to our texts, on Slowly, taking forever is the point.

Letter to a Japanese Friend, Winter Solstice

As a teenager who has grown up in an age defined by technology and social media, I did not think I would like having to wait days for a single response.

Remembering a song by, maybe, the biggest singer from Argentina, José Larralde, he said: "I’ve been through all the world, in the same place..."

I was so happy that I went around the house saying "I RECEIVED A LETTER FROM JAPAN"

Our letters are long, drawn out paragraphs, about everything...

Nu heb ik ook een grote nieuwe droom: een ticket naar Zuid-Korea kopen en naar Seoul vliegen om mijn geweldige soulmate te ontmoeten!

With no pretense, I suddenly found special people who cheer up my heart and make smile and laugh many times.

It's like finding Atlantis! I found a lot of nice people who share the same interests as I am.

That particular notification made him happy like nothing else in his gloomy days, even if it meant 19 painfully sweet hours of waiting.

Hij is 60 jaar ouder dan ik, en toch kunnen we nog steeds dingen vinden waarover we het eens zijn en die we delen.

Our friendship will be more than a year soon. And every single day I keep going to have new friends!