Letters ...

Remember back in the day -and I mean way way way back in the day- when cell phones and emails did not exist? When to make a phone call was extremely expensive and only meant for emergencies?

If you're a fan of black & white (specifically Egyptian) movies like me, you'll find couples rarely used telephones to communicate. They used letters.

Letters are so personal. You can read all the emotions in them. You can read the love in between the lines. You can read the sadness from the tear drops that once wet the letter and dried up. You can read the longing. You can read the patience. You can read the frustration and the anger. They didn't even have emojis back then.

You then can keep that letter for memory too long that it turns yellow.

In an old Egyptian movie called "The Open Door", a man wrote a letter to his beloved while he was away for war. She was traumatized after a failed relationship.

He wrote her a letter and said:

"I love you and I want you to love me, but I do not want you to exert your being in my being or in any human being. I do not want you to derive your confidence in yourself and in life from me or any person. I want you to be your own independent entity, and the confidence that emanates from yourself, not from others."

See what I mean?