Let Everyday Be Valentines Day!

I LOVE YOU…These three words make your heart skip a beat if you are in love. It’s that time of the year again when there is love in the air.

When I went around the city card shops I found so many youngsters thronging as if there was some big party. But yes the reason is Valentines Day when we all make our loved ones feel so special.

I have seen this meaning of love changing over the years, especially when most of us reading this belong to a generation which has never seen such kind of love which is so special on one day of the year. No doubt, I love this day, while many of a generation next to mine don’t, but it reminds me of some simple gestures of love which was years back, when I was just a kid.

Being in school, what love meant was more of infatuation and there was not one day which was observed as celebration of love. Fortunately or unfortunately I have never been in love when I was in school, but would often seen the cupid struck girls and boys who would often bunk their classes, to be moving around in the city in their uniforms.

In those days it was a big thing and a trend that followed was going out for movies by bunking the school or now even for a coffee or even more than that, which is better not said. But love at that time would mean something which was felt from the heart and I am not saying now it’s not from the heart.

It is still there, but with changing times, it’s more of showing through gifts and cards that you love and care. In those days when there were no gifts or cards, love was still there. There were letters written with your own hand and not keyed in on the email. There was nothing in the market to express your love, but your heart, which said it all.

This Valentines Day, do get a gift and card for your loved one, but also give him or her some tender words of love, your time and let him or her feel your love in whatever you can do. It’s a special day symbolizing so beautiful love, a feeling which has to be felt and not seen.

So let your love be felt in your special ways or care and not just seen in the gifts you give. And never take for granted, someone’s love for you because when you are loved in abundance, you seldom feel it, but if you don’t value it, you realize it too late. Love once gone cannot be brought back, so make this Valentines Day a day which is lived everyday, and not just February 14.