Love is in the air...mostly
With 14th Feb just round the corner there’s so much pressure on the guys to get all mushy eewwyy deeewwyy. Well some of us can’t…PERIOD!!!
Hear me out before you start throwing slander my way. We are simple humans…we haven’t mastered the art of pretense and fake affection…yet. We have an innocent heart which does not come with a love and affection “ON-OFF” switch. We can not go into a romance mode just coz its Valentines. We are genuine beings…give us some credit please.
So it’s Valentine’s Day…big deal…how is it any different from any other day. Yes, if we got an official holiday at work on account of Valentine’s Day that would certainly make it special…but that’s not happening, is it?
Here’s my take on it…We (that would include all my ignorant brethren who have no clue what they’re going to come up with for Valentine’s Day and hate this extra effort of coming up with a lovy dovy eewwy dewy (PUKEY) gift or a romantic gesture) love our respective girl friends, fiancés, wives…why is it this day that we need to go over board and prove our luuurrvee??? Haven’t we proved it time and again…I mean if we hadn’t…we wouldn’t be in this position now, would we?
Someone argued the other day that “Every day ideally should be a Valentine’s Day…and since its not, at least make sure you treat that one Valentine’s Day like the way you are supposed treat a Valentine’s Day and not be a jerk about it fool”.
Good point… only problem….how do you know we don’t treat everyday like a Valentine’s Day?
We love our significant halves like crazy day in day out…and we do our little crazy things to show them how much we love them….maybe those acts of love and affection don’t measure up to a 9.5 on your scale of 1-10…but on our scale…hey…that’s a 12…with the 2 bonus points for handwriting.
A friend of mine from back home makes sure he calls his wife every time he goes shopping with the guys…be it about the kind of a watch he’s buying or his size for his gym shorts or the color of his flip-flops…his inability to make a decision and dependency on his spouse to help him out is the sheer outcome of his love. Its not like he needs the help…he just wants to make sure his wife is happy with his choice…coz if his wife is happy he knows he’ll be happy…Pretty pansy yes, but happy nonetheless. This is how we show our love…we show it in a very distorted round about crazy complicated way.
“I love you Tanvi” would be too easy…and easy is something that we just won’t do … No Can Do Ma’m…so what do we do you ask? Ahem… I've been known to sing patriotic songs for Tanvi over the phone when she requested for a dedication ...coz love songs are passé.
The women I know are going “JEEZ…What a lame effort at covering for your failure to come up with a Valentine’s gift”…and most of my guys are going “HELL YA!!! ... YOU TELL ‘EM BOY…WE GOT YOUR BACK BRO …ahem…Just don’t turn around”
That’s alright…I’m not worried…coz even I know I’m not that "shhtooopid". I can only talk the talk....there's no way I can walk the talk ... hehehe ... 4 days and counting… scary :)
Hear me out before you start throwing slander my way. We are simple humans…we haven’t mastered the art of pretense and fake affection…yet. We have an innocent heart which does not come with a love and affection “ON-OFF” switch. We can not go into a romance mode just coz its Valentines. We are genuine beings…give us some credit please.
So it’s Valentine’s Day…big deal…how is it any different from any other day. Yes, if we got an official holiday at work on account of Valentine’s Day that would certainly make it special…but that’s not happening, is it?
Here’s my take on it…We (that would include all my ignorant brethren who have no clue what they’re going to come up with for Valentine’s Day and hate this extra effort of coming up with a lovy dovy eewwy dewy (PUKEY) gift or a romantic gesture) love our respective girl friends, fiancés, wives…why is it this day that we need to go over board and prove our luuurrvee??? Haven’t we proved it time and again…I mean if we hadn’t…we wouldn’t be in this position now, would we?
Someone argued the other day that “Every day ideally should be a Valentine’s Day…and since its not, at least make sure you treat that one Valentine’s Day like the way you are supposed treat a Valentine’s Day and not be a jerk about it fool”.
Good point… only problem….how do you know we don’t treat everyday like a Valentine’s Day?
We love our significant halves like crazy day in day out…and we do our little crazy things to show them how much we love them….maybe those acts of love and affection don’t measure up to a 9.5 on your scale of 1-10…but on our scale…hey…that’s a 12…with the 2 bonus points for handwriting.
A friend of mine from back home makes sure he calls his wife every time he goes shopping with the guys…be it about the kind of a watch he’s buying or his size for his gym shorts or the color of his flip-flops…his inability to make a decision and dependency on his spouse to help him out is the sheer outcome of his love. Its not like he needs the help…he just wants to make sure his wife is happy with his choice…coz if his wife is happy he knows he’ll be happy…Pretty pansy yes, but happy nonetheless. This is how we show our love…we show it in a very distorted round about crazy complicated way.
“I love you Tanvi” would be too easy…and easy is something that we just won’t do … No Can Do Ma’m…so what do we do you ask? Ahem… I've been known to sing patriotic songs for Tanvi over the phone when she requested for a dedication ...coz love songs are passé.
The women I know are going “JEEZ…What a lame effort at covering for your failure to come up with a Valentine’s gift”…and most of my guys are going “HELL YA!!! ... YOU TELL ‘EM BOY…WE GOT YOUR BACK BRO …ahem…Just don’t turn around”
That’s alright…I’m not worried…coz even I know I’m not that "shhtooopid". I can only talk the talk....there's no way I can walk the talk ... hehehe ... 4 days and counting… scary :)
posted by Pratap at 9:25 PM
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