Valentine's Day!
Much has been said and written about Valentine’s Day. I would like to add my two paisa worth to the discussion (read debate).
Valentine’s Day is celebrated world over on the 14th Feb. It is the celebration of love, as I understand it. It is the day when guys express their love to theirs gals for the first time or those who have completed the first step renew their vows of love. It is the day when married couples remember their days of courtship and find bliss. Sure, we don’t need a special day to express these feelings. But what if there’s a day dedicated to love. Imagine how beautiful the thought is. In the hustle and bustle of our hum-drum lives we may be aware that we love each other but we forget to say it to one another. So a day like this becomes a reason for celebration.
Some extremists in India campaign against the idea of Valentine’s Day. We are forgetting our culture is their argument. Don’t they realise that love is indeed our culture. Greeting card shops are attacked because they make money out of our emotions. Is it wrong? For some less creative souls like me, greeting cards are in fact, the best way to express my feelings. Rose vendors are attacked because they pollute the atmosphere with love. Teenagers are beaten up for feeling the presence of love in the air. All this is done under the pretext of cleansing our society. We are aping the west, say some elders. But hasn’t it been our tradition to accept good things from different cultures. It is what has made our culture so diverse. We are proud of our diverse culture but fail to understand its meaning.
Thumbs up to the culture where people say freely “I Love You”.
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