Do you keep your love letters? Whether they be epic emails or scribbles on napkins, those sentiments you’ve been sent by suitors can mark significant times in your life. Moments you might otherwise forget. Moments you cherish. Moments you really wish you could forget.
Inspired by the book Other People’s Love Letters: 150 Letters You Were Never Meant To See (edited by Bill Shapiro), I’ve been reflecting on my personal history with love letters. Before I started.this book, I’d been internally bemoaning my laxk of love letter writing to my partner. Maybe I can blame it on a prolonged writer’s block. Maybe I can blame it on the fact that we aren’t long distance anymore. Or maybe I’m just too damn lazy.
Sadly, I know the answer.
I wasn’t akways this way. Oh no. My love letter writing skills used to be legendary. Intense, caring, erotic–I could pen it all! Often I was told how beautiful my words were. How appreciated they were.
This may sound like a self-congratulatory wank, but I really took great pride in my words, because they were my words. I always meant every word I wrote, I was always sincere. That is what made them so good.
And I want to get back to there. We’ve been together nearly 4 years and live together but that doesn’t mean those valued notes,messages, emails or skywriting should stop. Quite the opposite, really. I have more and more goodness to write about every damn day. I gotta commit and get my sappy back on!
So, how about you! Gonna dust off that fancy pen and compose something sweet?
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