The French refer to it as a billet-doux, a love letter. I still remember the first love letter I ever received. I was thirteen and had met someone over the summer at camp. I remember my mother telling me I had a letter. Previous to that the only letters I'd received were from my grandmother or my mom when I went away for the summer.I can still feel the joy I felt upon receiving that letter. I remember holding it in my hand an how thick and heavy it felt; and seeing the name and the return address of my first love. Okay well it wasn't real love it was puppy love but it surely felt real at the time.
There is nothing like getting a letter from someone that you love and who loves you. It's amazing knowing that they have taken the time to find paper, then sit and put pen to paper; to know that they have taken the time to craft their feelings into words.
There is a kind of satisfaction and joy which cannot ever be replaced by an email. And to think there is now a generation of people who have reached maturity during the computer age who have never received an honest-to-goodness love letter.
An email is quick and easy. There isn't a search for just the right stationary, there is no selecting just the right pen and the scent of the object of your affection cannot be contained in an email.
As fast and efficient as an email is it can never take the place of a wonderfully handwritten billet-doux.
Do you remember the first love letter you ever received?
Do you remember the joy you felt upon receiving it?
Do you remember the joy you felt upon receiving it?
8 comments:
My 1st note it was in 3rd grade, do you love me check yes or no. I checked no. ( somethings you never for get) After that I got picked on.
I was "dating" this guy that had gone off to Basic Training for the National Guard-that's when I got my first love letter(s).
Definitely a dead art form, unfortunately.
Does the checkbox letter count? I can recall as early as first or second grade getting one (of many to follow) of those notes which read...
Do You Like Me?
(checkbox yes)
(checkbox no)
There is nothing like getting a letter from someone that you love and who loves you
Aint that the truth. I don't remember the first love letter I wrote or received, but I do remember the first female I ever "liked." We were in the 4th grade, her name was Sharron Moss.
Happy Valentines Day, Mes. Enjoy.
Oddly enough, I don't remember ever getting a love letter from anyone. Maybe because my lovers always lived close by and we never needed to write to each other. But a really passionate love letter must be quite a thrill. Perhaps I can get Jenny to write me one? Better late than never!
I definitely remember the first real love letter I ever got. Handwritten on a piece of notebook paper, the edges ragged from ripping when torn from a notebook. I still have it.
I'll take the email ones too though. It's the words the count.
JJ B,
Lol@checking no.
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Randi,
At least we have those memories!
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Baby Please,
Yes it counts! :)
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Don,
Happy Valentine's day!
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Nick,
That's a great idea!
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Liz,
Wow you still have it! I wish I still had stuff like that.
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I recall one of those form thingies too and I still have one somewhere. I don't know how it reads nor who gave it to me. Sad...
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