Blog post 7: Love Letters

Have you received a love letter? What would you feel if you receive one? 

Writing a love letter is one of the sweetest way to express your feelings on someone you like or love. Whether it is delivered by hand, a mail, e-mail or maybe romantically left in a secret location.

I have read an article entitled The Science Of Love Letters by Donelson Forsyth. A love letter means the crafting of a written missive that defines and describes the current and/or desired nature of an amative relationship between the sender and recipient. This burden is lightened, to some degree, by the use of pre-built greeting cards, red roses, candy hearts, and the Love You! application for smart phones, but the traditional love letter makes it possible to convey one's love for another in an more coherent and influential way. 

Researchers offer some suggestions to the love-besotted crafter of persuasive prose. The theory of love, for example, suggests that the ideal love letter should include the three basic components and these are intimacy, passion and commitment. The emotional component is intimacy. It is called the close, connected, and bonded feelings. Next is passion which is the motivational component. It includes physical attraction, sexual desire, sexuality like passionate love. And the last component which is the commitment or decision. It speaks one’s hope that the relationship will be long-lasting. Words like loyalty, responsibility, faithfulness, and devotion characterize commitment. The consummate love letter would, in theory, combine all three elements. 

And they discovered that when it comes to love letters, commitment conquered all. Love letters are really romantic because it shows the sincerity of the person who is writing it for. 

There is this another article entitled Letter To A Loved One When Depressed by Drew Coster. It states there depression is a terrible thing to experience. It can rob us the ability to think clearly, make decisions, to feel love and hope. 

The author said that making love letters to your loved ones can also help you to prevent depression. Writing to a person whom you like to communicate would make you feel better. If nothing else it lets them have a small insight into how you feel and it also conveys the seriousness of your situation. A letter is a special thing that we don’t often hand write anymore, which gives it extra meaning.

This only proves that writing is really good in expressing what you really feel and what you really wanted to say or imply.