Love Letters

Love Letters

To write a love letter is something personal that makes you feel warm and tender inside with all the feelings of love from the other person. When did that end? We send messages all the time, whether it be text, Facebook messages, Instagram messages, Snapchat messages, etc. But really, there is nothing like getting a love letter handwritten to you by someone who cares so deeply for you. In today’s time, it is a lost art, but it can renew a little spark if someone writes you a short letter that says I love you or says I care, or I just feel butterflies when I see you. So, is it the fact that everything is made up of technology in this day and time? Maybe, but maybe we also need to get back to the good old days of writing something down, going back in time to read that, and feeling that same feeling that you thought 30 or 20 years ago. Or even feeling something from a new love.

Letters to Véra

Vladimir Nabokov wrote this to his wife.” My tenderness, my happiness, what words can I write for you? How strange that although my life’s work is moving a pen over paper, I don’t know how to tell you how I love, how I desire you. Such agitation—and such divine peace: melting clouds immersed in sunshine—mounds of happiness. And I am floating with you, in you, aflame and melting—and a whole life with you is like the movement of clouds, their airy, quiet falls, their lightness and smoothness, and the heavenly variety of outline and tint—my inexplicable love. I cannot express these cirrus-cumulus sensations.”

I just found this beautiful, and there are so many more in the book Letters to Véra. I guess some of us are still in love with romance, whereas in today’s time, it has quickly become something that has spilled to the wayside, which is sad to me. https://amzn.to/3BQJwWI

I Love You

Ronald Reagan even wrote on the White House stationery I love you, I love you, I love you, and then again, I love you. If you get a chance to read I Love You, Ronnie: The Letters of Ronald Reagan to Nancy Reagan https://amzn.to/3Y4XUlw

 This may not be much of a love letter to many people, but he said everything to his wife and now just how much he truly loved her.  

It’s Romantic

I could go on and on with different love letters that touched my heart after I read them. It could be because I’m a romantic or because I still feel like handwriting things can make you closer to someone. The bottom line is sometimes you can’t replace a handwritten letter telling someone how you feel. No matter how old you get, how old the relationship you are in gets, or how many times you send a text message, it still isn’t the same as a quick note saying I love you in your own handwriting.

Traditions Featuring a Love Letter

Love letters are not just written for the love of your life. They can be written for many people. I started doing a special Valentine’s Day for my kids when they were very young until they moved out of our house. Every Valentine’s Day, I would write a love letter to all three of my kids, expressing a mother’s love for them and how I felt for each one of them. I would get up in the morning, make them pancakes, put strawberries with whipped cream on top, and a side of bacon; on the side would be their love letter, and while they were eating, they could read that love letter from their mother. Always wanted my kids to know that they were the first loves of my life and the mother’s love will always be there whenever many loves in their lives fail. A mother’s love, a mother’s heart, and a mother’s mind will always have her children’s best interest no matter what. As my kids grew, I went through letters. I kept reading the same thing repeatedly: as you grow, as the world feeling like its spinning faster, and as you become a man, or as you become a woman. No matter how old you get, my love as a mother will always be here for you in this fast-paced world. Without fail, always know your momma loves you, and I will always be here to wipe your tears or hold your hand no matter how old you get.

Looking Back

Looking back on these letters that I’ve written to all three of our children over the years actually made me cry a little bit because my children tend to forget things like a written love letter. One day, they will do just like I did, look back and read them and remember how much their mother loved them and the one thing she did once a year as a tradition to let them know that I loved them before anyone else did.

Therapeutic and special

Only some people like to sit and write their thoughts on paper. As for me, it is cathartic. Love to write, I love to read poetry, and I still love to believe in romance. I’m so glad that I have taken time through the years with my children to have a special moment of writing love letters to them. While I’m not telling everyone to do this, I am telling you there is something special about looking back and reading a handwritten letter to someone you fell in love with or your children as they have grown up before your eyes. You can’t get the same feeling from a text or computer message as you can from knowing someone wrote you a letter. It’s the feeling that they took time for you, they took time to put their thoughts down for you, they actually took time to want you to understand just how much you meant to them in that moment. Text messages are easy, Snapchat is easy, and Facebook messages are easy. Sitting and handwriting something down is sometimes therapeutic, especially expressing your love. Take time for yourself and the people you love in your life to write them one love letter, and you’ll see how it makes them feel, and it makes you feel something pretty special while you are writing.