Cupid is one hell of a god! And I know you all agree with me on this one. He does his archery very well, shooting his arrows anywhere and everywhere without even missing. Fun thing is around this time of the year, people be like "I want that Cupid arrow to stab me now, right through my heart". Well, that is Valentine's Day for you.
But Cupid really isn't the only thing that deserves recognition here. I always think that if the year were to end in February, then it's automatic that every consecutive year, the word Rose(s) would always be word of the year. Every year, no word would even come up as runner up to that word. You all know February is a crazy month and truthfully speaking it is beautiful, what with couples and singletons trying to paint the town red. People manifesting their love, celebrating their special ones.
But is that really all it is? A pure celebration of love, no ill intentions, nothing but just roses without thorns? Well, maybe not!
While other people are out there celebrating love in its purest form, I can't help but notice that some have really lost the plot of it all. The first thing people wanna know is what gift you got and most importantly, how much it cost. More like a celebration of a price tag and that doesn't really feel good when you know that you got a China shop gift when you were looking forward to some fancy Ferrrero Rocher or Godiva Chocolates.
Just a few weeks ago, Zim Twitter was ablaze with Kevin's roses which ranged between $300 -$700. There was some heated debate on how expensive and unneccesarry the roses were. But really, it should never be about the price. It's totally fine if your person can afford the expensive roses and it's perfectly ok if you can't afford the expensive gifts, after all it's not the price that matters but the true meaning behind the gift, right?
Roses are beautiful, but they got thorns too and this ought to be construed figuratively. Be careful how you handle Valentine, it might be the beautiful stepping stone over to a beautiful continuation of an amazing love story, or might be an end to a story that was once amazing. Be careful lest other traits boil to the surface only to taint your beautiful red. I'm talking about greed, dissatisfaction, ingratitude, jealous, show off, which might accompany the beautiful act of giving and receiving. Let us not lose the whole point of Valentine and find ourselves drowning in tears of regret and heartbreak not really knowing how we got it wrong.
Be careful how you handle your roses. And their thorns too.
Happy Valentine's day.
Till next time
Mitchel.
What did you that Valentines Day? Curious.
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