Some thoughts on love

Today millions of people in the world celebrate love - the greatest emotion ever to inhabit the heart - without whose existence, this world could not have survived so long. If we count the wars that humanity passed through time in order to arrive at a civilization where men and women can define themselves according to best of culture and modernity, I can only imagine that there was also a huge magnitude of devotion and love that inspired the conquest to their glorious triumphs.

I cannot imagine a world without love because where it does not exist, there is mostly likely conflict and war inflicted by an aggressor against a powerless majority. Or is it true that a long-time dictator hangs on to power because he too does it for love. How amazing it is that love like religion - with their respective private and public spheres, are being defined according to the personal interests of the one defining the word.

How many have been killed in the name of love? A father kills his own daughter because he loves her so much, but the good daughter fell in love with the wrong man and "shamed" the family. So, she was killed for the sake of love and she died for love´s sake. There are still thousands of women who are suffering in the name of love because love has an evil side that seemingly gives right to one party to hurt the other - physically and emotionally. This is a love´s dilemma that batters my mind. Why are there men who find it so easy to hurt the person or persons he cares most?

It is the romantic meaning of St. Valentine that sees red roses everywhere today. Love is not just for one day and red roses are all year round. I refer to an equitable distribution of such grand emotion so that it will spice up may daily life which at times could become boring and meaningless. Even if love is the greatest source of warmth, there are many things that belong to the brain that do not work because the intellectual environment is not challenging enough.

I have expressed so many private thoughts on the subject of love because I do believe that it is truly magic, and that in life if the heart is closed to its approach, how then can joy come to console during some moments of sadness when the sun finally sets on the horizon? We love to watch the sunset and we have seen the most glorious ones in all shades of oranges. And we sit and hold hands and toast life that is still in our hearts for as long as it beats.

Today we also celebrate our 2nd year of engagement that took place in Birka Paradise when my skipper - in a nightclub full of celebrating people, knelt down his knees and proposed. All the Cholo and Felicitwomen in the dancehall got red roses. I got the whole bucket. HAPPY VALENTIVE!
(Photo of Felicity and Cholo, New Year's Eve 2010, Cape Verde)