#Love: Bullet For My Valentine.
As you read this,
several thousand beautiful people are
making love all around the planet.
The entire love making fiasco is intensified especially during the second week of February.
With visuals of the notorious cupid piercing heart of innocent couples, an upsurge of the love hormones (mainly oxytocin and vasopressin) take place.
This ensues gift shops, restaurants, bars, and other social meetup points to be flooded with animated youths making an attempt to express their love.
While some might call it love. Others feel it like love.
But the most exhilarating of all human emotions is probably nature’s beautiful way of keeping the human species alive and reproducing.
Love is the answer!
While purchasing cute teddy-bears, fancy greeting cards (composed and designed by an unknown third party), or gifting expensive products, seem in accordance with the ongoing love making trends, take a moment to sit and question yourself about LOVE.
My heart raced when I experienced love for the first time.
A beautiful moment.
But is falling in love with a special someone and expressing it, should be as per societal norms?
Why do we seek partners that have to meet predefined expectations and guidelines?
And to express our love we push ourselves to a whole new level, often stressing ourselves.
And then what?
While the corporates who designed the entire plot of valentine's day snug back and fill their greasy pockets with your money, what about you honey?
What if I tell you that Valentine's day and the entire holiday filled romantic fueled week is one of the most heinous plots curated by the sick-rich corporates to take advantage of one of the most intimate and beautiful human emotion - love.
So while you whisper sweet nothings to those close to you, the cash rolls into 'their' account.
Why else do you think all the craziness around this time of the year, every year!
Why else do you think all the craziness around this time of the year, every year!
Innocents pulled and dragged to the artificial competition to find and express their love for 'the valentine', all in accordance and to benefit a handful of business units.
I might be coming off as a sadist at this point - someone who just blabbers because he can't enjoy the simplified ideas of the Valentines week.
But I shall continue writing,
and you shall keep reading.
I glance out of my windshield to see every other shopping complex or restaurant decorated in pink or shades of red, adorned with love quotes.
My phone beeps to inform me about a special valentines day discount and another one about a special "get yourself stupidly drunk and make love, 'coz hey! its valentines day, and aren't you supposed to "express" your love for your valentine?".
I deleted the message and rolled my window pane up.
While the celebration of this special day goes back to medieval Christ era and was intended for entirely different reasons (one of them is to commemorate the great Roman martyr - Saint Valentine), all of those divine intension slowly dissolved to animal like insensitivity and misinterpreted definitions of the day.
Several countries encourage their youth to indulge in the 'celebration' of love, through subtly controlled media channels, that has currently intensified with the ubiquitous social media networks.
Some countries on the other hand believe in boycotting this day and call-out for condemning youths expressing love on the fourteenth day of February.
All lost in translation! Love being dictated as per the place your physical body exists.
Several countries encourage their youth to indulge in the 'celebration' of love, through subtly controlled media channels, that has currently intensified with the ubiquitous social media networks.
Some countries on the other hand believe in boycotting this day and call-out for condemning youths expressing love on the fourteenth day of February.
All lost in translation! Love being dictated as per the place your physical body exists.
Wouldn't St.Valentine be smiling from the heavens?
But then if not a "Valentine", or a day dedicated to it, who do we make love to?
Who do we sing those love songs and make sweet promises - to last and walk this journey "forever"?
Who do we get drunk with and who do we "hump" at night?
Who do we take on a long ride with or on whom do we swipe our credit cards?
Who do we buy gifts for this Valentine's?
Oh! And where do I get those expensive chocolates and flowers delivered to?
I dive deeper to find the answers.
A voice whispers to me, urges me to answer a simple question.
"Son, why do you want to make love to a single person,
when you can make love to the
entire universe?"
I implored.
We have been wired to form relationships, and make efforts towards lasting those forever.
We are encouraged to be comfortable with relations that are 'profitable' for us. All of us have physical, psychological, emotional, financial or social needs, and one of the best ways to fulfill those is to say the magical three words. "I love you!"
We are encouraged to be comfortable with relations that are 'profitable' for us. All of us have physical, psychological, emotional, financial or social needs, and one of the best ways to fulfill those is to say the magical three words. "I love you!"
Love is glamorized and pitched in such a magical way - as if it be the solution of our manifold life issues. We enter a loop- a trap, an illusion, to believe love is the answer.
But are we addressing the right questions?
So it doesn't matter how many times you say "I love you" to your special someone(s), things will fall apart even if a few expectations or requisites aren't met as per our imagination.
Love is no simple affair. We sacrifice ourselves, give up a part of us, to be in a loving relation.
The misleading ideas that it is going to address all of our troubles, needs, conditions, desire or expectations has to go!
Love doesn't come easy.
Love is no simple affair. We sacrifice ourselves, give up a part of us, to be in a loving relation.
The misleading ideas that it is going to address all of our troubles, needs, conditions, desire or expectations has to go!
Love doesn't come easy.
Why else do you think people "fall" in love and not rise or even fly in love?
Love is supposed to be unconditional.
It has to pour out limitlessly- like the eternal fountain of Love being showered on you since your first breath.
It has to pour out limitlessly- like the eternal fountain of Love being showered on you since your first breath.
We have a tendency to react to our external stimulus. Most of our outward actions are set to motion in accord to the circumstances around us. We act as per the situation demands.
Seeking the true, pure, blissful love 'outside' is hence not only difficult, but an imbecile act!
Love is an internal affair.
That moment when you take the deepest plunge inside and awake to find the Love residing inside the core of your heart, you start looking at everything around you in a different beautiful gaze altogether.
Love is an internal affair.
That moment when you take the deepest plunge inside and awake to find the Love residing inside the core of your heart, you start looking at everything around you in a different beautiful gaze altogether.
Love is no longer something 'you do',
but something 'you are'.
And you fall in love for the first time!
Love is a human emotion. A complicated but beautiful and essential emotion. We are willed to love when and who we 'desire'. Unfortunately, many of us have crippled ourselves with
stupefied beliefs, opinions, philosophies or ideologies.
We start seeking everything, but love.
We start seeking everything, but love.
Love is not something 'to do' with someone. You don't need to spend an enormous energy towards finding the 'perfect one', and entering into a loving 'agreement' before experiencing the true meaning of love.
Love is what happens within you. There is no need to be bound or enslaved into a 'relationship' and brainwash yourself to be in love. You can make love to anything or anyone.
Try sitting in peace daily for 10-15 minutes with something that means nothing to you - could be a tree, an inanimate pebble or even an insect or worm- you will find over a period of time, you start looking at the object with as much love as you thought was reserved for your wife or 'girlfriend'.
Maybe then you realize how your intelligence has been hijacked by your hormones, curtsy the maniac business tycoons and agencies who want you to make and express love in a particular way.
We have limited the expression of love only between a young male and female- who have to pledge to ascertain to societal norms, that are self imposed by the watchful eyes. That neighborhood girl or the lanky lad you choose to go out with has magnified in your vision, only because your imagination and sense of perception has been re-wired to do so.
We obey what we are obscurely ordered to.
We have limited the expression of love only between a young male and female- who have to pledge to ascertain to societal norms, that are self imposed by the watchful eyes. That neighborhood girl or the lanky lad you choose to go out with has magnified in your vision, only because your imagination and sense of perception has been re-wired to do so.
We obey what we are obscurely ordered to.
If we wish to 'fall' into a relationship with someone (other than ourself), we must strive not to seek them for their gender or physical attributes or compatibility or religious, job, ethnicity, caste or family-based match criteria.
"I am in a relation" doesn't have to be a hormone-fired relationship. Are you listening Mr. Suckerberg?
Chose your answer wisely the next time 'they' ask about your relationship status.
The core problem lies in the way we perceive those around us. We give meaning and put labels to objects around us. Why can't we look at humans beings as they are. Condition and Love are two separate entities, that cannot co-exist. Love should not be a transaction between two individuals.
Love is one of the supreme human emotions. All of nature's creation can feel your love, if you chose to make 'them' feel.
Do not restrain your love for a single person, who provides some physical or mental satisfaction. We need to be deeply engrossed in love to feel the abundance! But it has to begin from within.
Embrace yourself! Fall in love with your Self.
Rediscover the depths of divine waves that flow within.
Rediscover the depths of divine waves that flow within.
Take the inner journey through bright tunnels of love.
Embrace the unknown estasctic moments of love with yourself. 'Coz while everyone 'leaves' you one day or the other, the divine romance beween the self and Self continues in this life and many more to come.
And while you receive, you must also radiate back the unconditional Love to your Cosmic Family.
Love will then be the ultimate answer for Cosmic Unity.
So, who are you making love to this valentine's?
And so, what did I gift my valentine?
~A bullet.
PS : I Love You!
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