Greeting Cards Are Emotional Mortgages

I wonder when exactly it all started. Some one turned to their friend, family, lover and stated Happy Birthday, I Love You, Congratulations. That person then turned to them and said can I get that in writing.

I can understand the card in the old days when you had to communicate though the mail. Your expressions and thoughts had to be reduced to ink to make it to your destination. Today though we have the ability to call someone and personally talk to them. We can web cam with them and see them across great distances. We can get in our cars and drive to see them, personally touch them and give them our best wishes.

Yet, people will complain that we have lost the skill of impersonal letter writing. It leaves me a little confused. All of this technology brings people closer together and we still base our lowest common denominator on how much we care at the level of a card.

Don't call...write. I want it on paper a legal contract of feelings.

People can have closer to the real thing yet they prefer the distance of a card. I suspect somewhere deep it is because we really don't like each other.

To me a card says, "I like you but not enough to get you anything useful."

It is a measuring stick people use to judge who likes them, "He didn't even get me a card" I like this because it implies that you didn't like them enough to go out of your way for them before you went out of your way to spend actual time with them.

People fill drawers with cards used a black mail, remember when you said this? As if you can't change as if the card is mortgage of demanded feelings able to be cashed sometime in the future.

PS. If you think people like the card because of the personal shit you write on it. Write down all of your feeling on a five dollar bill. Ask them a week later if you can see the bill......$10.00 says they spent that shit already. Your private feelings of the deepest part of you traded at a gas station for a candy bar and a soda.

You don't need a card you got me:)