Saturday, 14 March 2009
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I Want Love Letters to Make a Big Comeback
Miss Ostrich
I love reading old love letters, but I get jealous since I've never received a real love letter. Sure, I have a stock pile of sweet emails from old boyfriends and cute notes passed in high school, but they aren't the same. Love letters have so much more personality because the author had to sit down and hand write it, making sure everything is legible and spelled correctly (there's no spell check on paper!), then take the extra effort of stamping and putting the envelope in the mail. It might be a small step, but it means more to know the letter is out of your hands and hope it gets to the intended receiver rather than just clicking "send."
Here's one simple, but lovely one from a man I look up to, James Joyce:15 August, 1904
My dear Nora,It has just struck me. I came in at half past eleven. Since then I have been sitting in an easy chair like a fool. I could do nothing. I hear nothing but your voice. I am like a fool hearing you call me ‘Dear.’ I offended two men today by leaving them coolly. I wanted to hear your voice, not theirs.
When I am with you I leave aside my contemptuous, suspicious nature. I wish I felt your head on my shoulder. I think I will go to bed.
I have been a half-hour writing this thing. Will you write something to me? I hope you will. How am I to sign myself? I won’t sign anything at all, because I don’t know what to sign myself.
It makes me melt every time I read it. Call me a hopeless romantic, but I think the sweetest thing someone could do is write out their feelings and trust the receiver with physical proof of their love that can be used as a constant reminder even if they aren't around to say it themselves. *sigh*
Do you ever receive or write love letters/emails? If not, do you want to?
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Sadly, I've never gotten a love letter from any of my boyfriends. I even dated a few writers. Exchanging love letters would be nice.
I kept old love letters, emails , cards etc
I love superrr long love letters
Especially when they just pour their hearts out and be honest
Instead of putting that huge manly ego out
I've written my boyfriend a shoebox full of letters (he keeps my letters and little trinkets I give him in a shoebox) whereas I only have about ... 10 from him. I keep it in an envelope. I always ask him "can you write me one?" but his excuse is that he doesn't like to write and he doesn't like his own handwriting. -____- He'll write me one occassionally when he has done something wrongg but lately he hasn't been giving me any.
Which sucks because I am a writer. I love to write, read ... so I express myself with letters and write him tons. But he is not a writer ... I can't force him to write me letters but I do wish he will just to make me happy.
@a_single_raindrop@xanga - HAH WOW. My boyfriend told me that too, "my handwriting is too ugly". What kind of excuse is that?!!!
But I'm getting my first handwritten love letter from him sooon :DDD
I wrote love letters to the one person who I really, really, really liked. We were best friends before that. I think I was crazy. I would do anything to get those letters back and read them to myself with tissues incase I cry with laughter.
@a_single_raindrop@xanga - Same here. I love to write; in addition to that, I am every expressive so I tend to pour my heart out via writing e.g. love letters whereas my boyfriend is neither a writer nor as expressive as I am. I can't force him to write one either and I won't.
The most authentic love letter I've ever gotten was from a high school crush whom I almost dated six years ago (wow I feel old). I still have it to this day. Last I heard he had a baby... oh how time flies.
No. Maybe written notes asking me to prom or something. Love letters are heartwarming =]. I don't know if other people get how touching it is to receive something so personal. But then again, it could be an overactive imagination running through a hopeless romantic's blood ;D.
It's just so much more exciting receiving a hand-written letter. One can only imagine how difficult it was to come up with the words of endearment, etchiing and erasing, over and over again. Emails just seem so much more impersonal. An easy press of the backspace button and it's as if there never existed misspelled words, or phrases that inadequately expressed the feelings behind them. Oh, love letters. <3
my boyfriend did write me love letters...after he hurt me. He wrote me his feelings and how much he loved me. I should have known it was just another way to not lose me because he knew I loved letters.
But I will always cherish them and read them in the future, I think it's lovely when someone writes a love letter. I know I always did to my boyfriends :) And they all loved it
Hahahahaha... sorry, this is my slight cynical side. Would you girls seriously enjoy these if they came from someone you had no interest in? Love letters have fallen away. because we've stopped looking at affection as a compliment. These days, liking someone who really doesn't like you OPENLY makes you kind of a creep. I would love to write letters like this, but the fact of the matter is, I'd say about 50-70% of girls I'd write them about wouldn't like them, and to not like something I poured myself into is a pretty deep cut.
I love love lovelevevleovel
letters =)
My boyfriend and I used to be in a long-distance relationship, so occasionally, we would write each other actual love letters and send them. It was nice. =]
Yes! I'd also like a fairy godmother.
Love letters, if written in the old fashioned way with nice, clear handwriting, are always the good thing.
I LOVE love letters :)
My boyfriend was in bootcamp for 4 months for the Army, and as he hardly ever got to call me, our main communication was letters! Here's one he wrote me, one of my favorites:
My Dear Girl,
Haha! I love you, everything about you. Your cute little feet, your smooth legs, your stomach :), yes, your boobs, your little hands that fit perfectly in mine, your amazing face, everything. I love all of you.
I love you, I love you, I love you. I can't wait to get back home to you. It won't be too much longer now, my love, and we'll be together again. I can't wait to give you a sloppy, wet, passionate kiss, and hold you until we're stuck together and can't ever be seperated.
You're the most amazing person I have ever met and ever will meet. Your eyes drive me absolutely crazy. Your hair I could possibly live in. Your voice makes me weak at the knees. You completely drive me nuts with your beautiful nose and ears. You're going to be my wife for all of eternity.
We're going to see as much of the world as my wallet can let us and then we're going to sit on the porch of a cute little house and drink coffee and tea (at the same time), and talk about nothing until the stars come out, and then we'll stargaze. I can't wait.
Then, we'll take a train to some random location, play a game of tic-tac-toe and then hitch-hike through Europe with no money but all the time in the world. "Together." TThat's all that counts, anyway. And that's what we'll be, together, until we're both dead and gone and the earth has consumed our bodies and we exist no longer.
Oh, and then we'll take a hot air balloon across the ocean and cuddle up in the basket at night when it gets cold and we'll float to an unknown land and have to find our way back home. I don't know if that will happen, but it would be cool.
Oh, and did I tell you that I like your cute butt? You definitely knew that though
Your my baby, my future wife, my love, what keeps me going here. I love you so much.
Your boi,
Cody.
Those letters are what got me through the four months.
=D
I LOVE love letters. =]
I've sent a few myself.
I think they show a lot of heart and soul. I want them to make a comeback too.
My boyfriend and I got to know each other on a deeper level through emails. (Sounds condradictory, but true)
Since we've started dating, we leave each other long letters in random places. For example, he left one in laptop case this evening. And before that there was one shoved into my tape player in my car.
I love my letters. I have them all saved in a special place in my room. When he travels, I break them out and lay in bed reading and re-reading them :)
I do!!! I write love letters all the time! My SO lives a thousand miles away and, even though we talk practically all the time, I love writing to him.
The idea of being the composer of those "old love letters" that our children find in the attic strikes me as romantic and perfect. Proof that I love him until paper disintegrates (and even a little beyond that...)
:)
i am a big fan and i can't decide whether it is better to give than to receive. i hate technology in a lot of ways, which is funny in a contradictory way as i type this out. you can connect through an email, but you CONNECT with a hand-written letter...me at least.
i love love letters but i never wrote them. but i would love to get some ;0
i want them to come back too. :( ive never ever gotten one. Sure there are sweet text messages and romantic e-mails but its definitely not the same. i LOVE receiving letters. of any kind (besides the occasional "your auto insurance is about to expire" kind).
But i'd love it even more if a guy took the time to pour his heart out to me through pen and paper. and stamps. :)
i would love to receive a love letter. :] never gotten one before. the fact that a boy actually took the time to make one and pour out his feelings.
James Joyce knew how to write some sweet lines, but you also liked to write a lot of dirty letters to his wife as well. Did you happen to read any of those by any chance?
And love letters are still alive and kicking - people don't talk about them much apparently!
I write love letters to my boyfriend all the time. When he lived here I would stick them in his pockets when he wasn't paying attention or put them on his nightstand before I left his house. Now that we're dating long distance. Again. I started mailing him some. This made me want to write him one so I'm going to do that. =]
@Kitzress@xanga - I have read his more scandalous love letters, and they get pretty intense. I thought I'd stick with the theme and post a sweet one rather than a less than kid-friendly one, though