Love letters and ex-lovers
In one of her lectures Alice Villadolid, my college professor in Media Law and Ethics lectured the class about written documents and files. The discussion suddenly changed its course. She started to lecture the class about love letters and ex-lovers. She said she didn’t believe in keeping love letters. “Your love letters, burn them!” she said. She said it as if love letters were meant to be read just once and then must be discarded at once. Like it contained toxic it has to be burned.
Going back to that lecture never fails to amuse me. The way she said BURN them in that cracking old lady voice of hers pronouncing BURN like barn. Still makes me smile every single time.
She made sense. Love letters should be burnt.
NEVER to be kept.
We make choices—to stay or to leave, to make more memories or to forget—we STAND by the choices we make.
TO LEAVE IS TO FORGET.
Lingering isn’t an option
Ties severed
Memories buried
That’s why LOVE LETTERS? BURN THEM!
