Thursday, March 01, 2007

reminiscing...

i was trying to comment on Zherwin's post about love letters but i do not know what's wrong with blogspot and the word verification code won't appear! hmp....1st time ko pa man din sanang mag comment ng mahaba haba ngayong araw na to...kaya ayan post ko na lang comment ko dito!
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i have received more than 200 love letters from the same person for a span of 18 months and i think i have send him almost the same number of love letters in the same period. I was in Baguio and he was in Lipa and text messages and emails weren't popular then and we only have the love letters and phone calls to keep the communication open in between his visits. What we promised in those letters obviously didn't come true (we broke up after 7 years). But it just feel so right reading and writing them at that time.

in his first letter, he wrote there the lyrics of the song Love letters and it really suits our situation at that time.

Love letters straight from your heart
Keep us so near while apart
I'm not alone in the night
When I can have all the love you write
I memorize every line
And I kiss the name that you sign
and darling, then
I read again right from the start
Love letters straight from your heart

by the way, i have burnt them except for that 1st love letter he sent me. i burned the others together with all the hurts and hatred that i harbor against him and I'm keeping the first one not because i still love him but because i want to remember the good times of the old days when i look back.

8 comments:

vernaloo said...

I burned everything too including the pictures. Walang natira except for the CDs and house thingy...I'm still figuring out kung anong gagawin ko sa mga CDs pero hindi ko na pinakikinggan..yung mga gamit sa bahay na binigay nya naka box na...ready to be disposed too...

hayyy memories...

zelle said...

ako din pati pictures sunog na! pinamigay ko ang mga stuff toys tapos yung isang malaking stuff toy itatago ko sana kasi nanghihinayang ako then 1 day nag text si Mama...sabi nya "zel, ginawa kong throw pillows ang stuff toy na bigay nya at habang binubuksan ko iniisip ko na sya yun! FYI" galeng ng nanay ko noh?!

yung mga books na bigay nya tinago ko pati yung cd player sayang eh! hehehe...

dati gusto ko bawiin lahat ng binigay ko! :D

zherwin said...

this love letter thing definitely touched both the good and sad memories of the past. we can't help it that whenever we're remembering the happy ones, these sad memories are also popping after it. life!

verns - me makikinabang sa mga cd mo, ibahagi sa nangangailangan!!! hehe

pahabol, okey lang na idispose ang mga letters pero wag naman yung mga bagay na mapapakinabangan pa, sabi ko nga, i-donate sa charity. hehehe

zelle said...

zherwin, well ganun talaga buhay eh! minsan malungkot minsan masaya. its a matter of perspective na lang on how we view the events that happened in our lives.

oo nga verns, ano ano ba yung mga cd na yun? kung ayaw mo na makita kami na lang titingin at tutulungan ka naming magdispose pag nag kita tayo! :D

Anonymous said...

you hit the right words - reading the love letters at the right time matters. why, they seemed to be poignant before, afterwards, they hold no more meaning.

zelle said...

sexymom, how true!

Anonymous said...

thats usually what i do as well, i burn em and just leave something to remember him by. i had this ex tho, he said he would put everything i gave him in a box, and when were old, he said hed send it to me. there were hundreds of letters in those 11 months. i think its crazy to keep those still, but somehow, a part of me is hoping that he would keep it. oh well.

zelle said...

Hi chelsea! a part of me too is hoping that my ex keeps most of my letters kahit sinunog ko yung galing sa kanya.:P