Why is it that letters are such a romantic thing?
Is it the fact that they had to sit down and spend time pondering the exact words to write and we get to witness every scratch and scribble they put down as they search for perfection?
You can give me a box of chocolates and a couple unique looking flowers and sure they're nice, but when you give me a piece of your time such as a letter, then I'm Romanced.
Simplicity is really such a beautiful form of Romance.
Can we lose that Romance as quick as we gain it?
I was listening to a song and it's a story about two people that were together in the past and cross paths again later on, and the words to the song say" It's nothing but Time and a Face that you lose. I chose to feel it, and you couldn't choose."
To think that it's only a Face and Time you relate to past relationships sounds a little harsh, but at the same time you relate a Face with the Time you had spent with someone.
Do all of us want the option like they did in Eternal Sunshine Of The Spotless Mind and be able to erase past lovers?
Or do we need to hold onto those memories painful or not to help build up who we are today, to give us something to hold onto, or something to let go. Every letter,picture, and dried flower is a memory worth keeping even if it isn't apart of who you are today.
At some point in your life those things made you feel the most alive, why destroy what brought happiness?
Who knows how many times you'll be swept off your feet, how many boxes of chocolate you'll eat and how many hearts you'll break.
it is only when we feel anything deeply that we can open ourselves up to pain and its counterpart happiness/love. you are right to stake your claim outside of the shallow-- live life-- five hundred twenty-five thousand six hundred minutes.... how do you measure a year in a life? by each one of those minutes lived truly...
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