Love Letters

Yes, I thought it was time to jump on the band wagon and write something about the big ol' 'Valentine's Day'.  

I was thinking about the past, and how Valentine's Day is arguably not the same as it was; it's just not as romantic to receive a love 'email' instead of a love letter. But I feel that it's rare that people send letters nowadays (unless it's a bill or a spot of advertising with a 'personal' touch), and I confess there is a big part of me that wishes I had been alive before the internet had taken over. I mean, do people ever send letters S.W.A.L.K? Do people even have a special pen that they always use when writing to their favourite people? Do people even have letter writing paper?

To each of these questions, I would sadly answer 'no'.

So, on hypothetical terms, I was thinking about the ultimate letters that a person could receive. Who would you like to receive a love letter from?

And if we're talking hypothetically, then there are no limits - so, James Dean, Marlon Brando, Che Guevara, Heath Ledger just dash a letter off my way right now. I mean, there are plenty of living people who I would welcome a love letter off too - any woman who would reject a love letter off Ryan Gosling is a fool (I joke, naturally there is no accounting for all tastes).

But anyway, even if this years' Valentine's is going to be as dry as an old prune, with you sitting at home watching some mediocre rom-com wishing you were in the film, not watching it (and crying your eyes out), with only your Ben & Jerry's ice-cream for company, take comfort in the fact that there are many people in the world, who would have written you a love letter, had they been alive right now, or had the internet not made us all apathetic towards writing love letters on special writing paper, specially for you, their special person. Plus, a girl can dream, and I think my hypothetical letters would beat any other letters.

Anyway, my point, in some roundabout way is: don't dishearten (no pun intended) - perhaps, just perhaps someone will prove me wrong, and there will be a letter waiting for you in the post room tonight, that is heading right for your door tomorrow morning.