A day of love...for the un loved

With the onset of February, the cold winter starts to give way to the mild and colorful spring and for ages nature has unlocked its treasure of creation in this season and blessed it with beauty. Like the moon controls the rise and fall of tides, the onset of spring is always accompanied by a rising tide of feelings, emotions and creativity. It seems as if every man, animal and plant is engulfed by this rise of emotions and devotes itself to creativity. One of the most intense feelings that nature has created finds a way to cover everything like the mist that covers the ocean. This amazing feeling has been a cause for human creativity since times immemorial, this amazing feeling and emotion is none other than love. All of nature’s creations seem to be engorged in this emotion like a sacred duty in this season of beauty and creation.

During the course of human history each civilization and country has found their own way to symbolize love in one way or another and dedicate a season or day to celebrate this amazing feeling that is associated with creativity, beauty and creation. But with the passage of time and the world becoming more and more mechanized and feelings have taken a back seat to commercialism. Yet the symbolism of love has lasted and in one way or another a day has been dedicated to relive its memory. Though this region of ours has had a long history of folk tales of love that are captivating, yet today our generation uses a day and event dedicated to love, which was started elsewhere.

But in this celebration of love, have we forgotten the true essence of this feeling. Is love all about pink heart shaped balloons, chocolates and teddy bears or is it about dedication, devotion, respect and self sacrifice? Does your loved one really require overpriced gifts or a true show of love that would make him/her feel special? Will a candle lit dinner in a high end restaurant score more than a simple candle lit dinner cooked by both of you under an open starlit sky?

Love is all about understanding, balance and most importantly care. If it a day for love, why cant you and your loved one who have been blessed with love everyday of your life, join hands and spread love to those who are not so blessed, who are the unloved! We humans have a hunger for food as well as an emotional hunger, malnutrition in either case result in catastrophe. If we are blessed, it is time we share! This Valentines Day get together with your loved one and together do something for the unloved; this will make your love more meaningful, now the ultimate question arises what should we do? Hold each others hands and spend a few hours with the orphans who crave love just like us but are not blessed with it everyday, if you would share a few chocolates, balloons and gifts with them, may be what you will get in return would be the true feel and meaning of love.

Visit and old home and have a lunch with those who nurtured people like you only to be left behind to spend counting down days waiting for love and care.

Do you remember that in this land there was a Sohni who drowned in the Chenab for love, many years later floods in the Chenab and Indus drowned many Sohnis , now they need love and care, you and your loved one can join hands and help them restart their lives. This will give you a new meaning a new realization of what your love can achieve. It will make you complete lovers, complete humans because without the respect and love for humanity all love is incomplete. This Valentines Day share your chocolates, balloons and gifts with those whose craving for love has been left unsatisfied for so long, just share and then you will get in return something that would make your love worth much more and would make you complete. Try this new trick this time and then see how tasty your candle lit dinner would become and how meaningful your love and relationship would become.