Happy Valentine

We imagine it, we celebrate it, we wait for it, we love it but do we know it.

Valentine's Day or rather Saint Valentine’s Day is a holiday celebrated on February 14 by many people throughout the world. In the West, it is the traditional day on which lovers express their love for each other by sending Valentine's cards, presenting flowers, or offering confectionery.

Historical archives make mention of at least three different individuals (and perhaps as many as seven) credited with the name of Saint Valentine (or Valentinus). In 496 A.D., Pope Gelasius declared February 14 to be the Feast Day of Saint Valentine...Patron Saint of Lovers and Engaged Couples, with particular jurisdiction over the quarrels which arise between sweethearts. Additionally there are Saint Valentine: Holy Priest of Rome and Saint Valentine: Bishop of Interamna.

While there are no definitive written accounts of any of the aforementioned Saint Valentines, all of whom lived in the Third Century and apparently died on exactly the same day, there is a more recent and documented connection to Ireland. There has been some speculation in modern times that the name of Valentine was originally "Galantine," signifying "gallant," which is a word with obvious associations to courtship. The shift in consonant to "V" is explained by the way Medieval French peasants pronounced the letter "G."

Enough knowledge about it. Well I must admit that you can google the above mentioned. Hence I have done the same and the information above is courtesy Wikipedia & Novarinna. Hence not much work on it, then.

So why I am wasting my time for this. The time wastage is due to the fact that I am waiting for my Valentine and discovering what love is. After so much of love research the finding is ….Well…… love defines is own definition and mostly defies itself. When we love we just love and wishes that the other loves the same way.  Love is something we all can only feel and can let others feel. Yes, one finding that I came across is that a true love defies all logic and love is just love. So, still no definition of love.

While on my trip from Hotel to the Airport in Philippines, the driver and me started chatting and he was sharing that due to lack of jobs in the country he went on a cargo ship as one of the workers. He stayed there for more than 10 months at a stretch without any hesitations, besides the fact  that internally he is afraid of water till now. That was the love, and the money he wanted to earn to marry his girlfriend (his valentine). So here the love was strong to overcome his own fears. But when the same person went to India for a six months truck driver (the work he liked) had to return within two months because he was not able to stay away from his kids. So here the love was his weakness.

Now he hopes to become big, not for himself, may be not for his wife, but for his children. He wanted to die with one voice in his ears that his children had the greatest dad. So this somewhat proves my hypothesis of love has no definition and no boundaries. You cannot quantify what love is. It is a feeling, it is an emotion, it is a strength and it is a weakness. For me that’s what love his.      

On this day when love is just love I would like to wish you a very Happy Valentine. Enjoy the day with someone special, while I wait to celebrate my valentine day, one day.