Today, an article from a guest writer. It is about love and sending cards. Read the article and then answer the question at the end.
Relationships & Online Love Letters & Short Love Letters
Greeting cards and passionate love letter are indeed one of the best ways to reach out and touch the person to whom you wish to convey love. Love is one of the greeting card industry’s best friends. Love sells products. Love sells words and images. Love even sells colors.
When you sell greeting cards, you sell emotions. Love is the strongest emotion.
The love that is shown with a simple greeting card can start a relationship that will last a lifetime. Whether it be a friendship-only type of love or a relative reconnecting with another relative after a long absence of closeness, or the most common love of a couple seeking that special bond, a greeting card can play a big part.
Anytime a greeting card is given to someone who is in pain, it shows a love of someone who cares. When a person is hospitalized for a life-long illness, a greeting card can be a daily reminder, placed by the bedside, that the person is not alone in their suffering. When someone has suffered a hurt with another kind of pain, the pain of losing someone loved to death or separation, a greeting card can show a tender love of compassion. When someone has hurt feelings, a greeting card can show a love from empathy or a request for forgiveness. When a small child has been separated from their parent, grandparent, sibling, or even a best friend, a greeting card can send love across the miles. Love is the most tender of emotions.
The pictures on a greeting card can show love to introduce the caring that is placed inside with the words of the short love letters. It helps clarify and create the mood when a greeting card has a loving picture as a preview to the feelings inside. The card may even help melt a hardened heart that has closed itself off to love.
Never underestimate the power of a greeting card meant to send a bit of love. While some scoff at the simple act of a card given, others depend upon the card’s power to smooth the way for a deeper relationship with the recipient. A person’s favorite colors, favorite flowers, favorite animals, or a hobby shown on the front of the card can touch something inside their hearts or jog a long-lost fond memory. The person then opens the card and may smile if a smile has not yet been forthcoming. Once they read the words that were chosen with care, it will seal the mood. After that, it is often only a bit of time before a phone call or letter or even an email of much awaited thanks will evolve. Once more, love is revived and celebrated.
Greeting cards and write love letter ….so simple and yet a saving grace for many. It should jog the memory to recall the nervousness with which the first greeting card was given by a shy teen to a sweet first love. Maybe the memory is of a lonely elderly person trying to find a soul-mate after years of missing their spouse. Whatever the memory, you can bet there is a greeting card involved somewhere along the line!
QUESTION FROM JOHN:
In the article, the writer says:
“Greeting cards and passionate love letters are indeed one of the best ways to reach out and touch the person to whom you wish to convey love.”
Do you agree with this? What is your opinion?
Let me know in the comments!
I think greating cards are a meant to introduce ourself to somebody we are interested, but they must\’t be too passionate.Nowadays there are sms and e-mail, but I prefer letters and cards yet….my husband at the beginnig sent me a lot of sms, now they are stopped, I don\’t know why, perhaps because we live together and the situation is changed, now he loves playing jokes on me……….
I think greating cards are a meant to introduce ourself to somebody we are interested, but they must’t be too passionate.Nowadays there are sms and e-mail, but I prefer letters and cards yet….my husband at the beginnig sent me a lot of sms, now they are stopped, I don’t know why, perhaps because we live together and the situation is changed, now he loves playing jokes on me……….
of course Greeting cards and passionate love letters are really one of the best ways to express our love to somebody. These are the means to comfort someone in their distress and loneliness. At least they can take the role of a messenger who carries some hopeful news from abroad. Let them make this world with full of love and fruitful thoughts. most of the people they would like to express their heart through these kind of greeting cards and love letters.
Nice answer Rajesh. I see you are a fan of greeting cards. Do you send greeting cards on any special occasions? Which occasions?
Roberta – A very interesting opinion!
One point – You said: “greating cards are a meant to introduce ourself to somebody”.
Actually what you are talking about are ‘Business Cards’ or ‘Name Cards’
‘Greeting cards’ are different. They are given on special occasions to friends and family. EXAMPLES: Birthday card, Christmas card, Get well soon card etc.
Do you give greeting cards in your country? When?
i think greeting cars and passionnate love letter worked well in the past(i mean they really helped to pass your messages to whom you care about) . But nowaday their role seem to fade away giving up the place to sms,email,ecard which require less time to prepare and are always convenient for people to use while they generally do provide us the same purposes.In my country, we do send each other greeting cards in special occasion like: middle autum (holiday for children in Asia especially in China and Vietnam which seem to have similar culture), Xmas, Calendar new year, Lunar new year, birthday….ect.But from my point of view, people do that just because we’re adapting to western culture which classify us as stylish people and modern generation.Traditionally,we dont celebrate birthday, in other occasion like Christmas or new year, we tend to gather together and greeting each other orally no matter how far the distance is.Speaking about love letter, i don;t think many people in my generation do that because we think it’s old-fashioned plus if we do others may think we’re sort of people who live on the earth but our mind is somewhere in the air.
I see Sam. So writing a love letter is kind of old fashioned and romantic! Interesting. I guess the Internet has changed the way people communicate a lot!
Mostly i send greeting cards in Christmas. For me December is the month of aspiration; this is the month which announces the wonderful birth of a Xavier. Nature showers blessing in the form of snow. snow decorates this world in a different manner. Snowy evenings are so beautiful; but in this desert i see the beauty of the world in my dreams. i love to see the pictures of snowfall. i love this poem “STOPPING BY WOODS ON A SNOWY EVENING” especially these lines – Woods are lovely, dark and deep,
But I have promises to keep,
And miles to go before I sleep-
And miles to go before I sleep.
Sounds like a great poem Rajesh!
BTW – Who is Xavier?
Thank you John, I\’ve understood what are greeting cards.
yes, we use them, usually for special occasion there are cards writting poetic senteces or, if we are able, we can writting them ourselves. We have, also funny greeting cards, for example on use them when people get drive license or a new car or get retirement, or diploma/graduate…for this occasions we write funny sentences
I hope, I\’ve explaind it up well….
Yes, you have explained it well! We give people greeting cards for the same reasons in Australia!
This article made me remember the first time that I gave a greeting card. It was to my first girlfriend. After that, I haven\’t used them anymore. Yes, Internet has changed a lot of things, but I still think that it\’s better if someone give me a greeting card, or even a letter written by himself, than an e-mail.
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Ahh! Alan! You are a true romantic! I agree with you! It is much nicer to have a letter written on paper by a pen than to get an email.
But I must admit, I am not good at writing letters!! Email is too easy!
yes, i agree with you
I agree with you in the opinion of the idea of it to reach the beautiful hearts
Yes it is nice!
Basically,myself i agree with the truth about Greeting cards and passionate love letter ,though nowadays things have been changed.If i base on the issue,cards and letters present feelings that someone has on something or someone else.Sometimes cards and letters can bring more impact between patners rather than when they meet pysically, this is bacause some people are shy to talk oppenely with their friends or patners about their feeling or needs but through these two things they can reach their dreams.On the other side of view card and letters do not work well to the people who are not good in writing or communication.
Great opinion Omary!
I agree with you. I for one, am not very good at writing letters and cards!
What about you?
if we give an enough time to this subject before writing our opinions we will find that 98% of people stop using greeting card and the most of them resort now to the emails and sms or calling by mobiles but these ways become so boring to show ur feelings to the person that u love.in my opinion greeting cards are better than these developed ways. i m agree that they are so fast and u dont need wait along time as it happen in greeting cards but the love cant come so fast.but the more u wait the more u love.if u receive one greeting card every month it will so valued than 100 sms or email that u can receive in one month.greeting cards make love so sweet while emails and sms make it so boring cz it create a lot of problem b/w 2 lovers.and make people lose hope.cz when u send email or sms if u dont get the answer in one hour u will be so confused and u will begin to ask ur self why,while by greeting card u will wait with a hope
Hi Chouait!
I agree with you! A written letter or greeting card is more special than an email!
Yet email is so easy! It is easy to be lazy these days!
Do you ever make your own cards? Write poems inside? Now that is really special!