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?
