17/08/2025
Love was beautiful and it is still probably beautiful. Motif writing pads were a thing for us millennials just as smart phones and iPads became a thing for GenZs. I remember quite fondly how we will scribble words, very sweet ones for the girls we were then in love with.
On these writing pads you will read opening sentences like “From milky mountain to honey valley” “the brightness of the day has afforded me to pen down this message”. We will mostly sign off with words like “Kiss to Kiss” “Love to Love”. After all, we were young and innocent, not foolish!
I must make the point that the motif writing pads were not free. We bought the booklet If you want to save money and if you wanted to be more colorful, we bought sheets of different types. And Oh! It did sometimes come with it own designer envelopes.
Apparently, this short treatise is not about love letters as it was then called. Before the advent of phone we had a generation that were avid readers and writers. Suffice to say writing was the only way we could share memories, timeless experience and genuine love. Although on rare occasions, others used it unwisely. Nonetheless, mostly the motif writing pads were our companions. The adulations and alluring words we share as text today were carried by these motif writing pads in our hay days.
On the average, I exchanged at least 5 letters every week. Sometimes it went beyond that depending on the flow of the conversation. I do now remember fondly that sometimes I write one beautiful letters on four of these sheets ( my first girlfriend suffered).
While I did enjoyed writing and still do, the experience of exchanging letters was at the heart of our sheer strength in writing. These motif writing pads were the hand that held us through our writing process, albeit unconsciously.
Today, I look back and I cannot belabor the point that motifs writing pads. Inspite of the fact that we had to buy them they were the light that guided us through the dark tunnels of writing.
I am sure I’m not alone. That the writing motif pads were means to an end in our formative years as an unintended consequence for our writing.
