Valentines Day

As we all know by now in the course, Valentines Day is one of the most parastic days of the year. This whole day consumes us causing us to act out in these romantic ways in order to show love towards our significant other. Since this indeed stating the obvious this is not where I will be taking this blog. Instead I draw back on the discussion of love letters vs emails and an experience I encountered on Valentines Day that further proved my opionion towards what is more “touching” to receive.

Valentines Day is of course a day where millions of girls receive flowers from lovers, friends, and secret lovers perhaps. I recall in class people saying that the context of what is being said through a love letter will carry the same message as what an email would carry, I challenged this of course to say that the receiving of a physical love letter would simply mean more because its something you can touch and feel and when you read it you know that someone, some time ago, sat down and put the pen to this paper and wrote what it was that you were reading.

I received a card on valentines day with the sweetest message written within it, that was sitting on my desk when I woke up in the morning. To wake up and open this card, bring more than just what I am about to “receive” when reading what is inside. The excitement of opening it and seeing what it looks like is a whole new feeling.

Now mind you this same day, I received an email from someone very near and dear to my heart, expressing equally beautiful words. I suppose my point here is that due to this method of email, the letter was not even read on valentines day. Because my email is so backed up with SPAM and nonsense for all types of situations I literally skipped over this email that could have been a spectacular part of my day if I had received it physically, and actually have read it in time for the day it was meant for.

This is funny to me because we talked about the transformation of words and the way things are received compared to what they looked like while they were sent, and in this case the receiver received nothing in the time and context they were supposed to. So this leads me to, now what of the sender? The sender now doesn’t here back from the receiver on the day he intends do, which sends an entirely different message. This now sends the message of “she received the email, and has nothing to say.” Now the sender feels an entirely different emotion than the receiver would have ever intended to send.

I suppose for topics such as love letters/emails. A physical letter is simply more personable, maybe simply just because it is a tangible object.