Love is a Red, Red Rose

“Love is a red, red rose, that’s newly sprung in June; love is a melody that is sweetly played in tune”. Frankly speaking, Valentine Day is knocking at the door. This is the special day for soul mates and romantic guys and gals who are waiting for this very day for wishing their partners with love and affection. In ancient times, romantic lovers used a number of vehicles of making communication with their sweet hearts. A brave boy showed his virility and manhood by winning the heart of his beloved lady. This type of bravado was very popular during medieval period. Frankly speaking, there was no scope for the physically incompetent persons in this tug of war. In this connection, there is a well spread maxim that there is nothing unfair in love and war. To win the favor of sexy women was considered to be an act of bravery. However, with the advent of sophisticated science and technology, the pattern of making love is on fast changing. People are now much more complicated and they have to work hard to earn their livelihood. There is very little time to look back. In this fast world, boys and girls are very much conscious of their career and jobs. They mechanically calculate each day. Under the full glare of commercialism and the globalization, everybody is hankering after the materialistic achievement. Now, it is very painful to a true lover to bear the brunt of such monotonous lifestyle in which there is no ventilation of fresh air and light.

Often I ponder how a person will survive in the next future in the midst of mortar and brick; thick layer of black smoke and dust particles. Love, romance, humanity, passion seem to be lost in the mound of garbage, or in the spiraling gyre of poisonous gas coming out from the mouth of the kilns of the factories or emerging from the smoke spewing vehicles. Frankly speaking, civilization means the artificial progression making a tryst with technological advancement and modern science. In this artificially decorated society, there is very little space for the self enrichment through spiritual upgradation and deep meditation. Truly speaking,  love is a worship. It has the close proximity with the philanthropism and altruism. Through self sacrifice and devotion to the purity of heart and mind, a person will reach the climax of real and natural love. If man somehow loses true ethos of humanity, sacrifice, romance will disappear in the impenetrate darkness. Therefore, to be a true lover one should possess these qualities. In this mechanical society, man is forgetting the magnitude of the importance of service to mankind. For this particular reason, the futile love affair, divorce and painful separation happen in this society. Sexual abuse, rape, forceful seduction and violence are nothing but the byproducts of the narrow mindedness. Love will be made fruitful when every boy and girl concentrates on the catholicity of mind and humanity.