Valentine's day is just hours away....
Red fills the air and shops wrap gift bouquets for lovers......
I think its too much pressure, especially when love is the last thing you are feeling.....
This reminds me of valentines when i was in first year at moi university and everyone was or seemed or pretended to be in love.
Chocolates made their rounds to every one's room save mine. I ended up stealing Jane's cadbury's milk bars displayed on her reading table and dissapeared before she came back from her date.....picture this i have gone to visit a sister soul to while away the lonely supposedly "love evening" and whilst there i find her date came showered her with chocolates and whisked her away...........
looking back, i really think its a lot of pressure, and i can almost bet there are so many people who dread the love day as it is a reminder of their lonely status....
yet love lingers around us in many subtle ways, if we keenly observe we will see it sipping into our lives through caring friends and family who might not splash red and lush gifts but in caring words and actions love us.
I hope i can be part of the friends and family that love you in myriad ways, expressed and lived out. And am happy knowing that love is here with me.Valentines or not
Happy valentines.
G
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hahahaha! Give me the details of that valentines. Who was in the picture then? I remember my third year one where my journal entry was 'the best gifts all from the wrong pple'. Some guy had persistently knocked on my door from early evening till midnight when he slipped a beautiful card. Too bad I was possessed by wanting what I could not get! hahahaha! I am so so amused as I look back. It must have been around the same time that you took me to the prayer bush to exorcise the 'demon' out of me. hahahaha!
ReplyDeleteI have been extremely busy lately with work and chasing the visa. My 'wifely' duty of editing my fiance's thesis has also occupied most of my time. Love is truly all around us.
yea Jane,
ReplyDeleteI rem you saying you couldn't read anymore and was so worried that you would get a supplementary coz you could not stop thinking of that guy.....time flies n here you are cant stop thinking about Mark......enjoy yourself and many happy years ahead