Every year, couples celebrate Valentine’s Day and I wondered who the pioneer of them all was. I happened to take a copy of newspaper 2 days back and was flipping through it when I happened to see an article – The Real Death of Saint Valentine.
In the article, it mentioned that Saint Valentine was “the priest who defied the orders of Emperor Claudius II who stop all marriages and eventually gave up his life for his belief in love and marriage”. So you see, V’ Day is in fact the death anniversary of a great man!! I doubt Saint Valentine had ever imagined people would be celebrating this day…
Of course, V’ Day is not just the celebration of love and romance, but for friendship as well. I think that this is the excuse we squeeze out because we are dateless on this special day. But sadly, such romantic day is being commercialized greatly. Pricing of flowers, bears and chocolate rises through the roof and into the sky. The one who might be sitting back and counting piles of cash, laughing their tongues out would most probably be the florist.
Expensive gifts may not be the best V day present. Spending some quality time and telling each other how deeply they love one another might be even more romantic. I was just wondering; why do we give flowers and chocolates instead of anything else? I mean, who said we have to give flowers and chocolate on V day? Can there be something different? Flowers will wilt and chocolates will melt.
But since Valentine’s Day will only be celebrated up to the day we got married, there is no harm celebrating it now. Marriage is the tomb of romance. After marriage, the truth surfaced and there would not be much romance. If you don’t believe me, ask your mum. How many times did you see your dad giving flowers, cuddling or kissing your mum?? Before marriage, all that happens, after that they become memories. Hahaha!!!
Last Sunday, I was back in school to wrap up the roses. I would say it was fun, because it was the first time I see so many raw roses together. From cutting the wrapping papers to “de-thorning” the roses and finally placing all the flowers into a bouquet, I felt a great sense of satisfaction. They are sooo beautiful!! Though I only help to wrap up a few bouquets, which are of obvious low-standard, I am still happy. Perhaps I should work as a part time florist from now on. Initially, I told susu that I will only stay for 2 hrs but in the end, I helped out for almost 8 hours. I even help to deliver the bouquets to the recipients yesterday. I was panting like a dog because the school is huge!
Actually, I didn’t expect myself to receive any flowers yesterday because I am valentine-less. But surprisingly, I received 2 bouquets and a photo frame. Wow!! So stunning… So, there is no need to feel sad by V’ Day even if you are dateless, because single hood is a kind of blessing too!!
some pics to share:
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Roses in a pail on a perfect Sunday
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We wrap them up nicely
Look how attractive,
and delicious they are!!!
Love filled the air.....
I recieved sunflower from yr,
and roses from sk.
That's so sweet isn't it? Happy Valentine's Day!!!
2 comments:
I totally agree with the statement tht marriage is the tomb of romance. i heard the following interesting thoery from somewhere. Love is like a flask of cold water, when 2 person 1st fall in love with each other, it's like a flask of cold water, they keep adding fire to boil it so by the time the water starts boiling, they will ask each other, "wat's next?".This is just like a relationship, by the time of marriage, a couple would have aready done everything tht they should have had done and left with nothing else to do. The flask of water will be left to boil till its empty and damaged. In the end, there will be no more water, no more flask, no more love.
yup!!! But sometimes, the flask broke up into pieces even before the water starts to boil.
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