The Colour of Love
It’s another time of the year to celebrate
Love. Everyone is ready to paint everywhere red with the ‘colour’ of love. The
gift shops are making quick sales, both online and offline services are
available. Most services comes with ads-on as free delivery and fantastic
promos, incredible discounts, and lots more.
Social media and Print media are
agog with intense preparation in creating awareness and smiling to the banks
for good returns on advertising. Event centres are fully booked. Clubs and Cinemas
are not left out. Most spouses will ensure the long over-due promise of ‘taking-you-out’
is implemented. And of course there will be a lot of late hour buying of
gifts/flowers/cakes or (surprises).
Emphasis
is also on giving your
loved- ones and 'prospective' loved ones a great experience. It's almost
certain that more will be spent on gifts on Valentine’s Day than any
other day
of the year (especially amongst the youth and youthful). Some will even
embark
on taking 'soft' loans from available sources to ensure that they are
not left out from this great carnival. What a great day February 14 will
be!
Love is such a strong force, a
language that's understood by all irrespective of tribe, status, gender or
religion. It becomes the title of most speeches and a focal point to foster
unity and encourage trust. Our world will be peaceful if the gifts, beautiful flowers, lovely cakes,
outings, dates and all the eventful celebrations are not restricted to a 24hour
episode. If we resolve to extend the celebration to all the days within the 365days
we'll sure have the best of time. If we decide to take our eyes off self and
dare to take care of someone else without expecting any returns. If we decide to
stop throwing stones but rather build lives. If we decide to stop accumulating resources meant for all but rather utilize
them for the intended purposes. If we decide to carry out assigned tasks to the
best of our capabilities. Understanding that whatever we do is a product to be purchased
directly or indirectly by someone else should drive us to put the best of
thoughts in executing such a task.
The
colour of love will be well painted if the activities of February 14
translates to a culture of selflessness as against selfishness.
Integrity
as against corruption. Hard work as against laziness. Nation-building as
against fueling crisis. The smiles we put on faces, the kind gesture we
show to everyone, the gift we part away with on this day should form
part of our
life-long policy. Love is a scarce commodity, hence everyone hawking
this commodity is priced highly. We should paint everywhere red with
genuine and sacrificial love
every day.
