Valentine Cacophony

One Love is all you Need❤

It is finally that day of the year when LOVE is everywhere to be seen and heard. At a certain point during the day it almost feels like a volcano of emotions got erupted. It's a good feeling though (to many of us)and no matter what the critics have to say, it does feel good to show or acknowledge love in an extra special way on 14th of Feb every year. I really do not have much memory of when Valentines day became a celebration in India. But as a teen growing up in a small city by the river Brahmaputra, Valentines day was about roses and a crowded Archies shop, the only one in the city. While coming back from school we would see couples dressed up and exchanging roses, gifts and maybe more. Some of my classmates overwhelmed with proposals from eligible boys from other schools (ours was an all girls school). I however had the longest wait before anyone offered a rose on Valentines day. I finished school, college, started job and every year I would always be a silent spectator of this mega event. There was a faint hope within, that someday I would be in love and be loved and celebrating valentine's day would be an annual event in my life too. The day did come with a bang when I met my husband in 2013 and we celebrated a grand valentine's in 2014. But prior to that the wait was the longest one. Over the years, expression of love that I witnessed growing up got lost with the advent of advanced technology.  A virtual world opened up and loving each other was more about sending texts, whatsapp pings, Orkut, Facebook, now twitter et al and this has become the glitterati of Valentines celebration. There's nothing wrong in it though in expressing your love to your partner in a way that half the world gets to know. Well thats how fast word travels in the virtual world. The only thing that bothers me is cynics ought to learn to live & let live. I mean in todays world, love is needed in abundance, so if someone expresses his or her emotions on their own virtual account, why does it have to be trolled by another?

Though love happened much later in my life but I always hoped and believed in love. There was never any cynicism around it. Even as a bachelorette I would celebrate by going out for shopping, gifting self with goodies, hanging out with friends.I knew that Love is valuable and it doesn't come easily. People get shattered in their pursuit of finding love and to be loved. After all who doesn't want to be the most important person in someone's life! But sometimes life can be hard, I know this because I have been in that zone long ago. To put life's scattered pieces back together and to move on, is easier said than done. But in the end we have to do it and keep moving until we find the right love . And when I say right love I mean " Love that helps you become the best person you can be~Chetan Bhagat". But until you find the right love let the rest of the world peacefully be in love. There's no reason to be filled with so much angst and criticism. To each his own!

This year as the clock struck midnight , officially it was 14th of Feb. And suddenly there is a spate of Facebook feeds with mushy declarations for better halves, thanking for a beautiful life, hardships sailed together to pictures of dinner dates, changing profile pictures with a Valentines frame and so on. It feels good to see love in so many corners of the world when the other half of the world is falling apart in war, hatred and conflicts. However I am still amazed to see equal amount of trolls and idle banter about Valentines day. I have some extracts from the posts I picked from my feeds to give you a flavor of the anti Valentine brigade. Here's the first one😎




Jesus Christ! I am in a happy relationship. Just like I love my birthday but I celebrate it only once a year. Similarly I love my husband but I take the excuse of Valentine day to show him , I care. Lest he forgets, you see life isn't easy with a toddler in the house and doing cleaning, cooking, washing all by yourself, love  certainly flies out of the window with other priorities taking over.

      There were some really funny and some heart warming posts too.

Isn't true for a lot of us!

                   

Recipe for Love~game anyone? 😍       

A very well known bollywood actress turned author and columnist also wrote her version of Valentines Day celebration which got published in a leading daily newspaper. It talked about the chemical reactions that ignites the so called feeling of love. It did have elements of humor but some tooth breaking vocabulary too.I woke up early morning to read the headlines of a newspaper quoting a country that denounced the celebration of Valentines day because it was against their religious beliefs. I am almost exhausted reading all the hue and cry over a certain day dedicated to love. Nevertheless it still wouldn't stop people playing cupid on this day. For all we need in life is just One Love to Live!

I couldn't end this Cacophony without quoting the most impactful proverb by Tyler Knott Gregson ~" How unique to this human experience that we all just wish to be the most important thing on earth to someone else".

So Love yourself first and you will be able to love more. Happy Valentine's day to the ones celebrating, the ones who are waiting, the ones who are broken, it's time to put the pieces together again, the ones who loved & lost, the ones who was lost only to be loved once again.......keep weaving your own unique journey of love!