Valentines is back !!!!!

Another Valentines day, day of love, a day on which men realize the existence of balls and go down on their knees, women turn receptive for a change . Overall a day quoted in pink, with teddy bears spitting out chocolate fragrance, streets filled with balloons and hearts a day filled with love . The day brings to all of us college days, school days and a lot of memories. Mostly the flavors of affairs you'd had, the spicy Punjabi affair, the tangy tamilian one, the erotic Bengali one, all the women walk through as if it just went by.

The headlines of the next two days will be filled with saffron clad goons harassing kids in parks and beaches. With an already suffocated, wannabe society trying to break free, barricades set in the form of a great culture, heritage does not win a lot of hearts, but still our media will cover it with full enthusiasm. The mela of love has begun, and am sure love is in the air. But being retrospective, these days are required, whatever you name it, however you perceive it they are a must.

Cause these days create memories of all flavors, sweet, sour and when you look back that's the only wealth you've amassed. The memories of the first kiss, the blood rush to the ears when her breath was so close that you could smell her soul, the taste of tears when she walks off through the stairs of that unfinished concrete building. The moments of anguish in front of the head masters room, after she complained about the proposal and ate the chocolates you'd gifted. Reading the greeting cards under the mango tree at the backyard of the school, shoving it up the underwear when someone shows up.

With Face book, Orkut and the idea of being connected always taking the fun out the very concept of love. I hope the kids get to know the fun of thinking about dear ones, the fun of yapping away deeds of a complete vacation, the sheer thrill of meeting her at temple and passing it in front of her family as if it was never intended, there's so much Valentines day has lost in this connected world. To the beauty I fell for at seventh standard and the one who took away my heart during the first years of work, to the lady who made me realize that love doesn't liberate happy valentines day !!!!!