Sunday, 01 February 2009
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What Happened to Writing Love Letters?
What happened to writing letters? When I was in middle school and high school, that's what we used to do. Passing notes was an art form with all the little ways you could fold it and the doodles across the page. We didn't have cell phones with text messaging and Blackberry e-mails or even Facebook and MySpace. Boyfriends and girlfriends would write each other letters, as would friends and admirers. I used to love getting letters at school in between classes... or even during class
To see in writing how someone felt about you was amazing. This warm feeling would wash over you and a smile spread across your lips. You couldn't help it, but you didn't want to. Now, we get short text messages written in that unfeeling cell phone font sent thoughtlessly through the airwaves to a cold device in our back pockets. It's not personal anymore. I guess we all got lazy and stopped writing things out. Details get lost, feelings get passed over, you can't send sincerity, passion or sarcasm through a text message. It's all about the way it's physically written. It's about the thought, time and effort put into a letter that makes it so special and makes the person receiving it feel special.
Here's how you do it - it's a letter from Ludwig Van Beethoven to his Immortal Beloved.
Even in bed my ideas yearn towards you, my Immortal Beloved, here and there joyfully, then again sadly, awaiting from Fate, whether it will listen to us. I can only live, either altogether with you or not at all. Yes, I have determined to wander about for so long far away, until I can fly into your arms and call myself quite at home with you, can send my soul enveloped by yours into the realm of spirits – yes, I regret, it must be. You will get over it all the more as you know my faithfulness to you; never another one can own my heart, never – never! O God, why must one go away from what one loves so, and yet my life in W. as it is now is a miserable life. Your love made me the happiest and unhappiest at the same time. At my actual age I should need some continuity, sameness of life – can that exist under our circumstances? Angel, I just hear that the post goes out every day – and must close therefore, so that you get the L. at once. Be calm – love me – to-day – yesterday.
What longing in tears for you – You – my Life – my All – farewell. Oh, go on loving me – never doubt the faithfullest heart
Of your beloved
L
Ever thine.
Ever mine.
Ever ours.
Do you write letters to your friends or lovahhhhhs?
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Oh man, it's been quite a while back since I last wrote a love letter. Technology has totally ruin a lot of the romance we used to get through notes. Ah well, I guess we have to adjust to changing times.
Yes, I write letters to my boyfriend... Then again, he actually gets them through the mail, so it seems quite a bit more romantic, I think...
Ahhh, I admit, don't really write letters anymore. But I do love getting emails from my significant proclaiming his love and feelings for me. Yeah, texts and every other technology out there has kind of taken the romance and meticulous thought out of things.
Ever thine.
Ever mine.
Ever ours.
I have always loved those words of his.
Anyway, I write love letters, because it's so rare nowadays that's it super special if you do. But I don't write it and give it by hand. I mail them (:
This makes me want to start writing notes to people again. :3
I'm actually not allowed to text, so I do write notes to my boyfriend, and him to me. :) If I don't see him for awhile, I send him Fbook messages which he appreciates just as much. And so do I.
i love receiving letters/notes and i still writing them. i used to have a few pen pals but sadly it died out when the internet was more used and then of course the phone and text messages. i would love to have a pen pal again but hardly anyone's devoted to it anymore. life has gotten way too comfortable to keep in touch with easier methods.
I write letters to my boyfriend when I think about it :]
<3
I haven't in awhile, but I was thinking about it a few days ago.
Then I realized with all I do for him...and the little he does for me...he's just not worth it.
I used to pass letters/notes to friends in class when I was in middle school & high school. It was fun. & I think I still have a few. D:
But when I had a bf in high school, we never wrote "love notes." o_O We would just type each other long comments on MySpace (when it was popular, haha). But that's not the reason I didn't write "love notes".. it was because I honestly thought they were corny. :( & Maybe it's because I don't have a way with words.. so writing those to some guy [HAHA!] would have been very embarrassing.
I have always written my boyfriends love letters. Only one of them ever wrote them back, and I'll never forget how that made me feel :)
awwww.
<3
I know exactly what you're saying. I really miss letters. There's something powerful about seeing a loved one's hand writing... the little smears they make unintentionally with their hand... and maybe the little crossed out sentences and misspelled words. It's endearing, sweet, and very personal. Although I love Facebook, text messages, and IMs... I admit, they're nothing in comparison to handwritten letters.
I write letters to my friends sometimes, but I don't have a boyfriend to write letters to, anyway. :]
Awww, I'm not the only one!
I love writing my feelings down - hence having an Xanga - and usually turn the average holiday greeting cards into double-sided letters, my handwriting cramped into a dozen rambling lines. I've been debating on whether I should attempt writing a love letter for Valentine's Day, but I'm afraid it may seem too "old-fashion" and therefore over-the-top.
Hmmmmm.
i used to write letters to my ex during the first year we dated.. it was mostly about random little things tho. he wrote a few for me too, but only for special occasions. i still have them even tho i should probably burn them =D
Yup :$:$ I'm just better off writing :)
aww, i would love to receive a handwritten letter...
it's so much more personal, because it actually takes time, effort, and thought.
i was thinking the other day, what happened to love letters too. i use to write them in hs even with friends.
I've always liked letter-writing. Unfortunately, my beau doesn't, but it's okay - his words are always beautiful to me, no matter the medium.
I handwrote a story of our relationship for our anniversary, and wrote a sequel of it for one of our valentines. He loved it ^^. I didn't use to have a phone and only had dial up when i first met my bf, so we emailed each other frequently and he wrote me a few 'hidden letters' and hid them in my drafts folder.. hehe.. it's been a while since the last one though..
a couple of my friends and i still write letters to each other.
and i always write in my diary and my boyfriend reads that, so i guess that counts?
I still write love letters. But rarely are the hand-written. I'm too much of a perfectionist for that.
I still do,but it sucks b/c I never get any back.:[
I still love writing letters to the object of my affections. It's true that it means so much more to them, than a cold text.