Let me start by mentioning the obvious. There was a time long before social interactions were affected by technological innovations, when letters of love used to make the lover or the beloved skip a thousand beats by repeated reading of that handwritten letter till the next one arrived. Some of the world’s best known personalities have written unforgettable love letters to people who have inspired them or made them a better human being through this experience called “love.”
I personally remember reading some of those great love letters by Keats, Mozart, Beethoven, Napoleon, Lord Byron, and many more distinguished personalities. These are names from the history, but I don’t think the idea of that special letter was lost a long time back. I guess we lost the finesse when we/our worlds got more connected via technology. Somehow, we are today too busy to “share” all about ourselves and it might be tough to write something beautiful for that special someone we all have.
So if I had to write one today for a beloved whom I intend to reiterate my love, I have the option for texting her/buying her flowers etc. Anything but writing a handwritten letter. However, let me type one for this occasion. It is a hypothetical one and doesn’t address anybody dead or living.
Dearest
I wish I could be telling these words sitting next to you, holding your hands and looking into those eyes that makes my whole world beautiful.
I wish I could see you smile. It is something I miss every moment, but while I miss you, my heart also gets to feel this amazing amount of love for you. I know I sound crazy but this is true.
I have always known that loving you would cause both happiness and pain, and I have chosen to open my heart to both. My heart now knows what it means to be happy, as it also knows the darkness of pain. But my love, I promise you, that I will always love you and beyond what I may receive my heart will always beat for you.
You came into my life like long due showers come to a barren land. Everything changed. And I know that I have never felt more “alive” before this.
To love is to want you for myself, but I would ask you this – “can I be yours forever?”. This life will always be incomplete without you. However, the light of your love will always be there inside my heart.
Always yours
XYZ
So do we have a lost legacy? Or are we all too “practical” to write “cheesy” things on a sheet of paper? Have we stopped believing that we can actually feel such elevated emotion? Are we all running scared? What will it take to connect with our human selves, emotions, romance, and everything that’s non-technical?