Have you ever wondered how our lives would have been if it weren’t for those glossy card pieces we seem to use for every occasion.

Think about all the time it would’ve taken us to do a little scribbling to make our loved ones feel special. So mankind came up with a solution to evade that scenario. It was decided that a handful of people would be solely responsible for providing the human race with greetings for all occasions. It was the job of these people to portray our emotions and they’ve done quite well too.

So it doesn’t come as a surprise for many of us if hallmark or other similar business entities have made a fortune vending human emotions. They have however provided us with ways to express our feelings, that too in a very definitive manner. How many of us can come up with the witty lines the card companies come up with? Not many.

Then came the age of Internet and it all became so easy to hurl your feelings at another person without actually having to see them in person. Although the human interaction might not have gained much from this but we established a way to channel our feelings towards someone without the fear of being rejected. Seriously, how many people you know have called the sender after receiving such a card and displayed his or her disapproval.

In many cases online greetings have made it easier to share the celebration of ethnic or religious events with people in far distant lands. Technology might have its demons but it does provide us with a way to be human even on the internet, for machines don’t show emotions and anything with even the slightest trace of emotion, can’t be bad.

In the world of today with humanity losing the war against racial and religious bias, I’m sure receiving an e-greeting would only do our emotional state a lot of good. There’s simply no easier way to show your love for that special person than selecting and sending a romantic card to him or her. Because we are only human, a little appreciation goes a long way for us; maybe it really does the trick, or maybe the online greetings provide us with yet another way to flirt, we shall never know.