Ah! Love is in the air.
Oh, really? I couldn’t care less. Everyone is talking about the great Valentine’s Day. Really, what is the purpose of Valentine’s Day? Everywhere I see, I can see shops all draped in red and pink with ridiculously stuffed hearts. Not to mention the sequins and the glitter that make them shine, and pain my eyes.
I’m not really against love. What I’m against is spending money on huge human sized greeting cards, each with a message of love(!), that someone wrote to make money.
I appreciate love. Pure and unconditional love. But, we don’t need a day to celebrate love, we don’t have to confine affection to one day. Any day is good for that.
Talking of unconditional love, I remember this short story. Enjoy, if you haven’t already.
The Gift of the Magi — O. Henry
One dollar and eighty-seven cents. That was all. And sixty cents of it was in pennies. Pennies saved one and two at a time by bulldozing the grocer and the vegetable man and the butcher until one’s cheeks burned with the silent imputation of parsimony that such close dealing implied. Three times Della counted it. One dollar and eighty-seven cents. And the next day would be Christmas.
The Chaos Within 
I loved all henry’s writings especially this one..
this is a pure and lovely post, as lovely as pristine love cud be.
Thanks fr posting !
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Ya, this particular story hit me hard. It changed the way I (and a lot of others, surely) looked at love. Thanks for stopping by!
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