What makes this day apart from any other is the fact that people exert generous amount of effort and tend to do so much to make a fool out of themselves for a single day. Set aside the fact that Valentine's is just a commercial campaign directed on making malls and other commercial establishments generate millions after millions of profit from lovers all around the globe, it still remains as a world renowned holiday for celebrating love, as unique as each one of us perceives it.
Waking up to such a holiday is another awkward moment for the life of me. I mean, who the hell in the world celebrates Valentine's Day alone? No bitter feeling associated here, but I really do think that I'm not the target market of the holiday.
I believe it's for couples who want to be reminded of what they saw in each other and what made them stick to one another through thick and thin.
It's for people who saw love, loved, and felt love.
As a complete outsider to the Valentine group, I still chose to write about love tonight. People often see love as the fleeting feeling, the gestures, the gifts, and everything fancy associated with it, but it really is more than all that.
A few years ago, I saw the most ironic face of love and Valentine's Day.
As the whole world celebrated on the 14th of February, a couple tried to relive the fleeting feeling, though they had been separated by destiny a few days before Valentine's came.
The guy still did his gestures that made the lady swoon, as if she can still tell him how much everything meant to her. It's the sincerest thing that a man can do to a person he adores. A proof that love bounds through eternity, space, and time.
Seeing such made me think of how love can change a person.
It will make you do crazy things out of sheer will.
It puts a large hole in your pocket without you knowing.
It gives you the right to don't care about what others would have to say.
But at the end of the day, love makes you a better person.
It makes you more human as it teaches you how to appreciate another being.
It creates good memories that'll last a lifetime.
And as you grow old, it tells you that you'll never have to be alone.
Now I know you'll ask me about the ill-fated ones such as I.. What do people like me know about love when we don't have a partner to begin with?
The exact concept of love doesn't demand one to rely on another to comprehend what it really means, as people don't end up the same as everyone else.
Again, love makes a person grow.
It doesn't require another being to make you realize what you have learned from loving.
That is left of a person who took the risk.
Hopefully, the next time February 14 comes, I'll be more than fit to be in its target market.
Who knows?
