FEBRUARY 14, HMN……..
February 14, Valentine’s Day, hmn…..
Lovers’ day, hmn….. A day anticipated by all, both adults and teenagers, even
preteens and grannies, lolzzz, everyone wants love. Everyone wants to have a
Valentine, if not known before the day; a surprise Valentine would be
appreciated and simply perfect to save the day. Once it is first of February,
anxiety and preparations takes the next gear, every girl wishes to have a
Valentine’s date, while a lot of guys would love to abscond.
I remember High School and University
days, Valentine’s days were highly anticipated days, even teachers and lectures
used to realize that students have lost concentration and their thoughts and
attentions were on something else, everyone anticipating a gift for either the
sake of it or the “I love you” significance of it. Popular girls in school gave
boys the specifications of gift they can receive from them, while other girls
hoped a secret admirer shows up to make their day and “players” schemed a way
to get into a fight with the less important girls in their lives and escaped giving
them gifts. Val’s day for a lot of teens is usually about getting gifts, any at
all, from cupcakes to Mars chocolate bar, to flowers from the lawn, to Sure
roll-on deodorant, anything at all, just save the day for me, please…….
During my High School days, I never
used to expect any gifts, but trust me, I made myself useful, did free
unsolicited reporting for the entire block, knowing who got what from who and
when and how the gift was delivered, lolzzzz…. Amebo was my second name; it was
so bad that I used to come up with my version of “Forbes Top Val’s Gift of the
Year”. I asked a friend how her valentine days were in high school and got an
epic reply. She said “hmn, I’m ashamed of myself; those days are that I did not
know anything. I did not hear of valentine until my fifth year, when I finally
heard, I still thought it was a celebration in the Catholic Church”. I could
not help the laughter, it was too big a joke for me to ignore. I asked another
friend and he was like “over wake up was disturbing us then oooo, both boys and
girls; most boys picked up fights when it was close to Val’s and make up after
the day. To Val anyone then, you had to sneak out of school to buy a gift and
that means you are a die hard, you must be over bold. Anywaz, teachers
discovered that students were using that day as an opportunity to engage in all
sorts of immoralities and sex, so it was banned”.
This
now leads to the question, what exactly is Val’s day and Love?
Valentine’s
Day is a day that has been dedicated for lovers to show love to one another. It
sounds like a regular thing, but it has a day dedicated for it.
Love
is a feeling of affection felt by one person towards another person. It is that
feeling that makes you care for another and want to spend all you time with
them, share all you have and help the person out in case of any problem. Love
is a beautiful thing from God that He has for His creation and expects us to
have for Him and others.
Love
has been confused to be sex, but is sex really love?
Sex
is now being used as a manipulative tool, love is not manipulative, if sex was
love, then, there would be no rape; if sex was love, so every product of it
would be wanted, so, sex should not make you feel cheated, used or dumped, love
would not; love would not make you feel any self-hate, guilt or hatred towards
anyone, but sex could; If sex was love, there would no STDs or laws against sex
and parents frowning against it or moral castings against it or punishment when
caught/discovered having sex or societal disapprovals at a certain stage or
prison sentences and disgrace following this act under certain circumstance.
So,
this
means sex is not love and not a part of Valentine’s Day! God is love
and He created the world with everything that we need to survive,
created us in His own image and took His time to make us all beautiful.
If sex outside
marriage is fornication, this implies that it not part of love showing
or
sharing and so not a part of Valentine’s Day. Love gives, so exchange of
gift
is a part of Valentine’s Day, love makes the heart merry, so going out,
sharing
some food and drinks, cracking jokes and having some sweet conversations
is a
part of Valentine’s Day.
In
all, have a love filled valentine’s day and do not forget there are some people
who would be glad to have someone smile at them, that might be the only gift
you will give a beggar on the street, I stray kid or even your domestic help.
Valentine is about love, so show some love, just because…… and please accept my token of love. xoxo.......
