All about hearts...

When Valentines Day celebration is just a few hours away, many hearts are throbbing faster at the excitement of an anticipation in the strange world of love. Is something memorable going to happen..like a declaration of love? Maybe an engagement which brings two people one step closer to matrimony? Will a shy person finally have the courage to make his feelings known? Will it be reciprocal?

It is so much easier to discuss making love than making war, between loving and hating and between having and losing. Love defies definitions. It is different from person to person. I have just been reading a Swedish blog where there is a heated discussion on the meaning of love. Many are of the opinion that it involves strong feelings between two people, and that there is reciprocity of such feelings. One woman was very clear in her definition that it is respect for each other. For me, respect is respect and love is love.

I wrote a long time ago that we all have love stories, unforgettable emotional encounters that defy the norms of the heart. I thought that in each life, one is lucky to experience at least one big love affair. It takes enormous courage for the heart to become whole again after it has been broken because of a loss. Many allow their hearts to stagnate in bitterness.

Valentines Day's most important message is most probably to remind us how important and valuable the heart is, not only from a fysiological but more importantly from an emotional point of view. A heart that has grown hard with bitterness and hate, is already dead.#