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Valentine’s Day- Love and Gifts for All!

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For some its much-awaited, while for others much-dreaded. What was once a truly festive and remarkable ritual is now a stereotyped competition of many a dozen pompous love shouts (If you don’t say it, you don’t mean it!), hefty dents on wallets and a hoteliers seasons to capitalize on others’ love-stories.

I never truly understood the hype of this holiday turned in to a huge marketing mixer for brands while subjugating those who were single to hopelessness and comfort food.

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Don’t get me wrong, I am a big Valentines-Day fan. I didn’t join the popular parade now because I have a Valentine; but the unexpressive-ME has always taken this day to muster my courage and shower everyone I love with expressive words, flowers, gifts or hugs(whatever is affordable;)). I choose to do it on Valentines Day since it becomes a genuine sound platform for me to tell my family, friends and loved ones, how special and amazing they are to me, and how much I love them, which I often ignore to do so in the rut of life.

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This Valentine’s Day, let’s gift our loved ones with precious style. And no it does not have to be your romantic intimate someone only. Yes, it could be your girlfriend, your date, your wife but it could also be your mother, your sister, your friends or your aunts and grandmothers. They deserve to feel loved and cherished! If you are having a sinking feeling or forcing yourself to snag a date for Valentines, contrary to what your social circle implies about being single, you don’t have to fall for the hyped drama if you don’t want to! Do not give it importance that as of the prom where its critical for you popularity profile for you to have a date. Your smile and confidence is what makes or breaks your personal profile. And I don’t say this as a feel-good statement, but as most men would agree, confidence in women can be pretty powerful, more so than the right makeup!

For those who are single, enjoy it, guys are a handful anyway! You’ll realize it when you are married to one!

A. Appreciate yourself and your Singledom. High probability- it won’t last forever!

You don’t need someone special, you have you– and that’s plenty special to celebrate!

B. Just like the Superbowl game, Halloween- this is yet another chaotic marketing monster. However, this monster is huggable! Give it a warm embrace and make it a day well spent being happy, positive, counting your blessings, being grateful for all the loving people in your life, and sincerely appreciating their presence. Treat yourself with a massage, pedicure or a gift if you want to, but the last thing you should do is sulk for being single!

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For the men with loving women in their life- Appreciate their presence:

A. Tell your mother, your sister, your family you love them: get her something nice. Make her feel special, some flowers, a lunch date, spent some quality time with her and make her feel wanted, feel like a Queen.

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B. Gift something simple, nice and sweet to your wife, girl friend or date and make her feel your overwhelming love, like she’s your special lady, not an object of lust. Like this darling gold velvet box-clutch covered in luxe pearls, stones and velvety fur for a functional piece of elegant style. Rather than gifting a Plasma TV or concert tickets to your favorite artist. Sometimes make it only about her!
 As I write this with much zeal and passion, a sudden epiphany befalls me and I realize I have zoomed in to women as the mere recipient deserving all the goodness of this day. Not a feminist, nor was it my intent to make this a gender-specific day. But perhaps the leaning comes by default from the fact that women have often known to be lost in the rustiness of their lives, cries fade unheard, deprived of glory, attention and love. Not withholding much truth today, with changing times, and leading ladies, this day now excites the menfolk as they try to gauge the efforts of women in their lives to analyze if they genuinely applaud their occasional drudgery, hard work and thoughtfulness.
For men, this is a good time to make your father feel you respect and look up to him. Make him feel you are indebted to him for the man you are!  And the ladies, you should take Valentines as yet another excuse to tell your husband/boyfriend/friends how much you value their presence in your life. To tell your fathers- that you will always love him, treasure him and notwithstanding time or space, forever be- Daddy’s darling daughter!

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Take your own spin on Valentine. Make it all about adoring the ones around you. Make a list of all the people you love, and make sure they know you love them! Enjoy this gimmicked day as an excuse to flourish the love in all aspects of your life. Relish in it, as this day provides you with a chance to express yourself and take a moment from your introvert self, your busy life and your distanced hearts– who is it that makes your life beautiful. Whatever you do… smile and love the present with all the bountiful blessings you got!
If you take a step back and observe, Valentine’s day has transformed a lot. It has psychologically retuned humans to be more empathetic and considerate. To stop and think from the monotony of everyday, to adore and reflect at whats important! It is incredible how whether one loves or hates it, celebrates or bitches about it, everyone is bewitched for a certain span of time, every year. Irrespective of creed, caste, race, gender, status, culture, Valentines has unified the human race by the same spell, just different effects.