Is #romance dead.........?

Some times in life, through what ever reasons, it is nessercery to put certain things in a box. Some times is shoes, some times it's a way of creating closure and some times it's the safest, securest place for our most precious memories. The beauty of these boxes is that they keep things that are precious to us safe. They keep our Manohlas safe from boyfriends, pets and little sticky hands, they hold things together to help us heal from pain and they neatly keep our past memories in order until we want to reach up to that shelf and take a sneaky peak at our past in pictures and notes. But as we hurtle through the twenty first century, an era of massive technological evolution has the love letter become as extinct as the Do-do?
In years to come will we all have memory boxes filled with old Nokia brick style phones containing text messages from boyfriends past instead of hand written love letters or notes?Will we have memory sticks filled with emails from previous lovers instead of old cinema tickets and face book wall posts instead of flowers dried between pages of a book?
In an age where the height of commitment is defined by your relationship status on facebook and we can tweet the object of desire from any where in the world, we have to ask, is romance dead? Has modern technology stomped it's way down the information super high way killing romance and all it's sweet notions as it went? Do men send real flowers any more or just virtual ones on a Twitter hashtag? How many of us have opened love letters versus how many of us have skipped a heart beat when we saw a facebook

notification telling us our beloved has written on ‘our wall’, in cold type text, emotionless and so public. Or even worse, they attach an emoticon, surely no one is that happy or super smiley to be pouring their heart out on face book?! A love letter is a private thing, only ever destined to be between two people, a wall post on face book, however, declares your love to the object of your desire and all of your 400 friends including your mum and your boss. Nice. There is something warming and comforting about feeling the paper in your hand, knowing the person you love and miss has also touched the same piece of paper. It’s hardly the same when your sharing the information super high with a million other people who you have never met.  Is romance gone or are we expecting too much in the fast moving pace of the 21^st century?

Maybe there will be no White knight on a shiny stead, no big white dress or happily ever after with roses around the door, at least not in the traditional sense. Maybe we need to catch up with the technological era and realise we live in a world


Maybe we should take all our boxes and stack then sky ward, towards our future dreams, remembering that it was because of these memories and past experiences we have boxes to stand on to build the future we want.*

*White knights and fairy tales are totally optional...............