Everyone Needs Love

Although I thoroughly enjoyed everything about this week due to my hopeless romantic nature, the one thing that has stuck with me was the Ted Talk: Love Letters to Strangers. As someone who sends bi-weekly love letters to her boyfriend, I have always viewed love letters as very personal things that should just be shared between the people in the relationship. Even though my parents are known as the PDA couple of my friend group, I have yet to see the letters they wrote through college despite hearing numerous stories about them. It was like a secret that just the two of them shared, and although I knew my parents loved me, they also had a special love for each other. However, in the Ted Talk, Hannah Brencher explains how she shared love with random people since she had so much from her support system. This is something I am familiar with, I have a great home life, so others have tended to lean on me for extra love and support. I have been told numerous times that I was a person’s sole source of hugs. Despite being away for a month, I have received countless letters from my family and friends, so I know the impact of having physical representations of people’s love and support. Therefore I decided to do research. I wanted to see how I could use my love of letter writing to give people the extra support they needed. Hannah’s Website: The World Needs More Love Letters, provided me with the perfect place to start. I love the idea of being able to support someone who I know needs it even though I don’t know them personally. This was just the start, and a large part of me still wants to leave little love letters around campus in hopes that it will brighten someone’s day, but it seems like a big mission to take on by myself. Yet I would like to officially you, the reader, to join any future campus love letter project! I can’t wait to write a letter to someone in need, and I would like to encourage everyone to do the same.