Recounting her history with boyfriends, my friend dreamily recalled that she had split with one guy because he was almost perfect. He looked after her every need, he was kind, considerate, romantic, good-looking, and he wrote love letters! The last bit she thought was unbelievably corny. Considering that most fights between partners who are living in separate towns occur because one of them thinks that the other is being negligent, I sympathise with her lack of any motivation to fight with, and consequently to be with him. But love letters….Well they may sound ‘corny’ in today’s day and age, but love letters are and I believe will always remain the most romantic form of communication between man and woman.

It takes time and effort to compose a love letter that makes it almost a form of poetry. Today’s text messages and e-mails, on the other hand almost read like rude and urgent telegrams, with each comma and a ‘double s’ an added burden. It may be cute to send off an sms every time you think of your partner and be spontaneous about it, but when you are thinking of moonlight and flowers, reading one can actually break your fantasy and make you cringe.

Besides, love letters are not just of romantic, but cultural importance. Just try to replace the classic image of a maiden weeping over a long lost love - the memories of which were brought back by a roll of fragrant love letters, worn and yellow with age, that fell out of her wardrobe one day - with a woman weeping over her cell phone! It’s ludicrous and technically impossible. For if the woman kept a text message from her lover for fifteen years, she would have a permanently swollen face from having come across and cried over it everyday. She wouldn’t be fit to be a heroine in popular film television or literature at all.

Ultimately, I believe the extinction of love letters and their replacement by text messages have dealt a serious blow to the legal and blackmailing industries by depriving them of a handy tool with which to prove infidelity and wantonness, and thereby wreck present relationships, which is the mainstay of their respective business. For example, even if a compromising sms was found in the cell phone of one of the parties accused of straying in a marriage, given the nature and quality of the language, any competent lawyer could argue that it was a code between 2 secret service agents, or a hacker’s password!

All of which leads to the conclusion that writing love letters is a rich and wonderful art which should be kept alive and cherished in the name of love and thoughtfulness.

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