As soon as February starts roses seem redder, the only dress you want is red, and the songs you put on your playlist are all romantic melodies. There is love in the air.
Valentine’s Day is here and gifts are surely being exchanged everywhere. Partners will be trying to please their significant others with tokens of their love – classics like chocolates or flowers must already be adorning most arms, while the wild out there may have added that red bottle of deo or talcum powder to the mix, because they are, well red.
If you haven’t already done some wild, red damage of the above sort, please stop.
Don’t get filmy with your gifts and your sentiments – in context are these timelessly silly lines from the Bollywood movie Kal Ho Na Ho, “ Lal mere dil ka haal hai, lagta tum pe kamal hai, yeh tohfa nahi sawal hai , kya Subhash Ghai ki picture Taal hai..”. Go crazy, if that’s how you two are together, but spare your partner cliches. Get original.
Personally, I think love should be celebrated every single day, Valentine’s Day is over rated, gifts too. You should give a present when you feel like it, celebrate when you want to. Why wait for a calendar to permit you to celebrate your feelings? 14th Feb is just a number, of no value except what we choose to attach to it.
Your time is the biggest gift you will ever give, so spend some time with your beloved. Quality time, where he or she has your exclusive, uninterrupted attention. This is my advice. Thank me later. I know you’ll want to.
Happy Valentine’s Day!
