LOVE: Valentine Special

I love you. She cramped in her soul at hearing that. Such scenario is very prevalent among our youth, reason being that love has become a scarce commodity in our society. Even people who can afford it in ostentatious speech never really knew it and so never meant it at any instance they spent it. Shamefully, however, this perception of love has become the order of the day. I am very convinced that the expression they term love, which is on the tongue or that on the card, but strange to the heart, is no love at all.

As another allegory, a young beautiful, charming and flashy looking girl walks on the street with that aura of pride of a peacock, was spotted by a guy, wholly engrossed and encharmed, quickly resolved and resorted in his mind, he is in love. Because he could hardly control himself, he chickenly resorted to avail himself of the most abusive word ever “LOVE”, whose perception of relationship is wholly bent over and needed be propped up, on approaching the young lady cock out his emotion and concluded he loves her. I condemn this perception to love and term it mere sensuality.

Though I may not have a heart of gold and may scarcely be ready to die for any woman, as some will always confess in order to attract the attention of their prey, yet I manage to have a couple of friends, among whom are beautiful women and men of values, whose most cherished secrets are let out to me at will, and mine to them, people I can’t but wish good and would even take out on valentine if need be and if permitted. These are the love of my life, people who care about my person and who constantly remind me of my dreams and goals. They wake me up each morning into a lively hope and give me a feeling that I am a success. Equipped with these people, their value presence, and my experience with them, hence, I have wherewith to write on love, for men of literature and pen write as they’re inspired or from their experience.

Now, love is an experience. It is that connection of processes and events, of attitudes, of action and reactions. It is the antidote to the societal ills. It is the human being humane. It is not so much in the tongue or anywhere else as it is in the heart, express naturally through the attitude in a moderate altitude of the soul or spirit.

To be continue...