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Valentine's Day...

Many says that it's an over rated celebration...I can't understand why they seems to be bitter about celebrating this. For one this is not just about romantic celebration. For me it's a chance for us to at least celebrate love ...lavishly for a day...though we can show it everyday!!! and it's not all about romantic love...it's for everyone with someone special, family or friends.

So, no matter what is your ideology or perspective on Valentines day ... whether it's on roses or chocolates...though me I still prefer flowers over chocolate...they're just beautiful as it is. ;) it's all about showing your love to your love ones that counts. Happy Valentine's Day to all!!!

Let me share this nice note on Love...from Kurt Nerburn: "Letters To My Son" It's a bit long but worth reading.

"It is a mystery why we fall in love.
It is a mystery how it happens.
It is a mystery when it comes.
It is a mystery why some love grows and it is a mystery why some love fails.
You can analyze this mystery and look for reasons and causes, but you
will never do anymore than take the life out of the experience.

Just as life itself is more than the sum of the bones and muscles and
electrical impulses in the body, love is more than the sum of the
interests and attractions and commonalities that two people share.

And just as life is a gift that comes and goes in its own time, so
too, the coming of love must be taken as an unfathomable gift that
cannot be questioned in its ways.

Sometimes, hopefully at least once in your life - the gift of love
will come to you in full flower, and you will take hold of it and
celebrate it in all inexpressible beauty. This is the dream we all
share.

More often, it will come and take hold of you, celebrate you for a
brief moment, then move on.

When this happens to young people, they too often try to grasp the
love and hold it to them, refusing to see that it is gift that is
freely given and a gift that just as freely, moves away.

When they fall out of love, or the person they love feels the spirit
of love
leaving, they try desperately to reclaim the love that is lost
rather than accepting the gift for what it was, then moving on.

They want answers where there are no answers. They want to know what
is wrong in them that makes the other person no longer love them, or
they try to get their lover to change, thinking that if some small
things were different, love would bloom again.

They blame their circumstances and say that if they go far away and
start a new life together, their love will grow.

They try anything to give meaning to what happened. But there is no
meaning beyond the love itself, and until they accept its own
mysterious ways, they live in a sea of misery.

You need to know this about love, and to accept it.
You need to treat what it brings you with kindness.

If you find yourself in love with someone who does not love you, be
gentle with yourself.

There is nothing wrong with you. Love just didn't choose to rest in
the other person's
heart.

If you find someone else in love with you and you don't love her, feel
honoured that love came and called at your door, but gently refuse the
gift you cannot return. Do not take advantage, do not cause pain. How
you deal with love is how you deal with you, and all our hearts feel
the same pains and joys, even if our lives and ways are different.

If you fall in love with another, and she falls in love with you, and
then love chooses to leave, do not try to reclaim it or to assess
blame. Let it go. There is a reason and there is a meaning. You will
know in time.

Remember that you don't choose love. Love chooses you. All you can
really do is accept it for all its mystery when it comes into your
life. Feel the way it fills you to overflowing, then reach out and
give it away.

Give it back to the person who brought it alive in you. Give it to
others who deem it poor in spirit. Give it to the world around you in
anyway you can. This is where many lovers go wrong. Having been so
long without love, they understand love only as a need. They see their
hearts as empty places that will be filled by love, and they begin to
look at love as something that flows to them rather than from them.

The first blush of new love is filled to overflowing, but as their
love cools, they revert to seeing their love as a need. They cease to
be someone who generates love and instead becomes someone who seeks
love. They forget that the secret of love is that it is a gift, and
that it can be made to grow only by giving it away..

Remember this, and keep it to your heart. Love has its own time, its
own seasons, and its own reasons for coming and going. You cannot
bribe it or coerce it, or reason it into staying. You can only embrace
it when it arrives and give it away when it comes to you. But if it
choose to leave from your heart or from the heart of your lover, there
is nothing you can do and there is nothing you should do.

Love always has been and always will be a mystery.

Be glad that it came to live for a moment in your life.

If you keep your heart open, it will come again." :)

Live, Laugh and Love...

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