Happy Valentines Day !

14th Feb, Valentine's Day...decidedly its one of the most interesting days of the year and I am saying this despite the fact that I am single. I find it interesting because you get to see a lot of action.
Weeks before VD, the newspapers, radio stations, television, etc start nagging us with all sorts of ads and other pre-valentine and valentine preparations. You get to see ads of all the valentine parties, gifts which you can possibly buy for your valentine, to do lists, not to do lists, how to dress up perfectly for that perfect date, your horoscope in sunday times, love qoutient of all sun signs, whether the week ahead will be romantic for you or not?...

A day before 14th people start asking you, 'so whats ur plan for tomorrow, anything special?..are u coming to college or going out on a date?'...oh! whatever it is, even if I am going somewhere why should I tell you and even if I am not going anywhere you won't believe it, so why bother? huh! whatever...
The beginning of the day itself is quite interesting.... I happen to use public transport everyday and even on normal days the discussions that you get to hear is much beyond being just interesting...especially in trains. The various comments on the colour of the dress that you are wearing, women complaining about how their husbands forget it every year then say sorry 10 times, the discussion about the gifts they receive from their hubbys, their evening plans, all the teasing, giggling that goes on....
Then when you reach college, and you see everyone either dressed up in red or pink,or those who turn up in black...supposedly in support of anti-love...whatever...these people usually are the ones who are later seen roaming around with their boyfriends..supporting what?...ya u guessed it right...love! Though my college doesn't host any special programmes dedicated to VD...i have heard other colleges have practices like hosting silly contests like 'make a proposal contest' and 'best couple contest'. Everywhere you are surrounded with stuff that keeps reminding you that today is valentine's day...
And amongst all this celebration, we have shiv sena's agitation,or the more recent Sri Ram sene episode...this part is kind of funny but its irritating for all the shopkeepers who hope to earn a good profit by selling all the lovey-dovey stuff. Everybody wonders what is wrong with these crazy shiv sainiks, why are they so against VD...even I dont know....a set of people who dont want this western culture in India,are they a bunch of hypocrites or may be because they themselves have failed in love...I don't know...Recently, I read about this 'The Pink Chaddi Campaign'...it seems funny n promising enough to create a stir...but in this country,anything of this sort hardly works...But whatever it is, this whole valentine thing is not all that bad, definitely not something you need to protest against...I am not the anti-valentine's day type but I don't believe in extreme elaborate celebrations, may be I am saying this because I don't have anyone to celebrate it with...

Well, I am not trying to make any point out of all this....I would just say that all those people who are in love are very beautiful, hope they continue to be in love...God bless you all and the others too [after all, the others have managed to be out of love all this while :)]...
and yes of course...

Wish you a very Happy Valentine's Day!