Today is Valentine’s Day!
It is that time of the year when the world witnesses apartheid of a different sort-- when people get divided into ‘the loved’ and ‘the not-so-loved’!
We all love to be loved! But the rush for the V-Day trappings, often fueled by compulsion, sets me wondering as to what the fuss is all about and why there is this scramble for cards, roses and gifts to please a potential partner, on a particular day!
It would sound boring and clichéd if I say that those who truly love do not wait for the V-day to go for the ‘kill’. Again, it is not my business to talk about those who need a Valentine’s Day to remind them of that special someone.
This day, my heart goes out to those unloved souls, the world over and, to those who found love only to forgo it.
It is all very well to celebrate love but do people have to be gluttonous about it? Is it right to indulge in such brazen display in the name of love?
Do the frenzied couples even fleetingly think that there could be millions out there whose lives could be transformed by a single gesture of love?
Don’t get me wrong! I don’t hero worship Muthalik, neither do I belong to the Ram Sena. But a look at the statistics show that the holiday season records the maximum numbers of depression cases and suicides the world over. It is winter, no doubt, when SAD sufferers go through their worst episodes, but it is also a time for family bonding, for loving and for being loved--- a time when loners get truly hit.
One can understand teenage revelry on V-day! But as adults it would be more responsible, and even nice, if people could be subtler and did their bit to make others feel less lonely. Of course this is just a thought-- –no apologies tendered!
Love, they say, keeps the world going…..Never stop loving, instead, on this Valentine’s Day make a pact to love differently . Let each of us include one more person in our circle of love so that there is enough love in the air to keep the world going round !
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Good one!
ReplyDeleteI think almost everyone now knows that valentine day is just a commercial way of selling things that normally dont go for a great price. It also includes some stupid women who can be lured to bed for a rose that cost 25 dollars..
ReplyDeletewhat about stupid men, shyam, who can be bought in the same way...? why spill venom on a harmless blog?
ReplyDeleteI agree stupid men too..should have included it..not spilling venom on the blog, but just spilling the fact on how people get carried away in stupid manner towards commercialization and how superficial the word love has become when mixed with just raw sex in most cases. I say this because how many valentines day love really continue as love and not just end as a physical interaction that breaks. ....
ReplyDeletees, there are several ways to show love and there doesn't need to be
ReplyDeleteone day to show it or be reminded!!!! And for some reason, as one
grows older, the love is supposed to be different and perhaps more
subtle and yet deeper (or so i think...?). its good and well written. I think the original reason is religious through St. Valentine isn't it? Oh well, at least its love they are celebrating and in this day and age with so much hate stuff around, it may be ok. what do you think?
A very good thought and very well written..Celebrations on V day is a colossal waste. Yes it's important to extend our love.
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