A VALENTINE'S DAY NOTE AND A CUPID'S ARROW

A Valentine’s Day Note and a Cupid’s Arrow

            

          

Love is the essence of life.



Love is a sacred sacrament. Life without love is a porridge without salt.

Valentine’s Day is celebrated globally with couples exchanging gifts, candles, cards, chocolate, candy, and flowers. Many regard this as a candy-floss romance.


On Valentine's Day, couples dine together in a romantic and novel atmosphere. A candlelight dinner is considered the most romantic escapade. Some married couples reserve a hotel suite to celebrate their love for each other.

 

Saint Valentine was the greatest protagonist of love. He was executed in AD 269, February 14th. To commemorate the message of love propagated by Saint Valentine, Valentine’s Day is celebrated globally on February 14th. Many countries observe “Valentine’s Day” as a holiday.

 

 

 

The Roman Emperor Claudius II summoned Saint Valentine the popular priest from the Roman empire who admonished the doctrine of love, and offered Claudius’ support to spread his message of love, in case Saint Valentine accepted pagan religion. Saint Valentine rejected the proposal and became a martyr on the altar of love.

 

Emperor Claudius II was so infamous that he even stopped the sacred sacrament of marriage, fearing that the new recruits to his ambitious army would be demotivated from joining the services if they had enjoyed a happy married life. He was the first of the most brutal anti-love protagonists.

 

 

Falling in love is a beautiful experience. However, the younger generation is often misguided about the beautiful and divine meaning of love. The tender age is definitely a constraint to finding the ideal partner. The person falling in love must be able to judge the future of their love to remain in an everlasting beautiful relationship that may lead to a blissful family life.

The best friends to partners in life. 

 

The family as an institution is a stronger unit in India. The arranged marriages we notice in our society that many times more successful than blind love marriages, as the parents with an eye to the prosperous and happy life of their children choose the bride and groom from well-settled and acceptable socio-economic strata of the society. The Western people are attracted to the strongest bond of family relationships prevailing in India.

 

We live in a society that believes that virginity is the greatest gift to the partner in marriage than anything else. Teenage love often finds partners indulging in pecking, necking, and kissing in public places like band stands, beaches, and parks resulting in losing the precious gift your marriage partner solicits.

Our conservative society does not approve one nightstands and live-in relationships. Such a physical relationship will often end up in the trauma of abortion and related psychological disorders such as nervous breakdown and depression.

 

 

The ideal partners for life selected by adult and mature people result in long-lasting relationships with the support of one’s family and friends. This kind of relationship is cemented by the social network of the couples like family friends and relatives. The religious as well as other festivals in the community ensure stronger bondage.

 

 

The honeymoon of a married couple between the satin sheets on the bed and champagne bottles and the filled wine glasses, chocolates, flowers, and other precious gifts exchanged expressing their love for each other is a tailor-made sequence of an idealistic society.

 

Valentine’s Day is celebrated by elderly couples of the world fraternity as well. As I stated at the beginning of this post, love is a beautiful state of mind and becomes even more beautiful in the consummation of marriage.

 

Indian society by and large is not a permissive society that does not promote puppy cub’s love from a Cupid’s arrow. The physical attraction of two beautiful people is a romantic unison that has to be selected with due care and screening of the partner for a steady and strong bond of relationship resulting in a blissful existence.

You must be wondering in the modern times when some of our younger generation rebels making a war cry for sexually liberated lives and permissiveness of unnatural relationships with a philosophy of variety is the spice of life and try to find rooting for such dogmas in our society, why I am so caution exercised to find a time tested existence of relationships in our society. The broken marriages and the disarray of resultant children losing both parental love and care is a plague that threatens to shatter the very social fabric of our society.

 

The eternal love preaches selflessness and avoidance of self-oriented elements of selfishness in a relationship. It is quite possible in an attractive person’s life the love interest often crops up. Polygamy and wife-swapping are not accepted practices in our society.

 

The lovers exchange love notes with sms, beautiful pictures, and cards. In ancient India, the Dove and Swan were used as the messengers of love.

 

The bondage of love between two opposite-sex people is a sacred relationship. Gay and Lesbian relationships and such marriages are widely unheard of in our conservative Indian society.

 

Mostly the handsome and beautiful people fall in love with the attraction to each other. However, the beauty lies in the eye of the beholder. I advocate the love between two mature and adult partners equipped to choose their life partners.

A steady relationship, the soothing, caring, and comforting love is most desirable in a person’s life.

 

Long live Valentine and the beautiful relationship of  Love..!!