“To be loved means first of all to be recognized as existing”.
– Thich Nhat Hann
I was ready to go to the library in a new dress and did that. Then, while walking on the street, some youngsters were looking at me, and I thought they were looking at me due to this good dress and because today is Valentine’s day.
But they did not know that I was going to the library for my work. I caught the bus at 9.00 am and saw that there were a lot of students going to college. Time and again, some students were looking at me because I cleaned my beard, and they did not see it before being cleaned.
I came to the library at 9.30 am today and sat calmly, and started watching a TEDx talk on education today for the future. I learned that to be an educationist. Education is a scam but a process where we grow, and education is a weapon to change the world.
Then I started thinking about education and working on my work. So I started reading and reading about Ram Manohar Lohiya and learned about his struggle in India. So this is how my Valentine’s Day started with some readings.
I was thinking, “can someone date books or not?” And found that we can have a romance with books and that gives us pleasure to overcome the mental stress we face in life.
I can’t deny that having a girlfriend and going for coffee or whatever makes the day marvellous, but things are going more profound, and understanding life may be more lovely. So agree that romance is a part of life that can be seen in the books and reflected. And my day came up with this.
Then I went for lunch and had delicious food which consisted of rice, dal, karela fries, and salad. I am saying that having food is delicious where people don’t get it on this day and suffer on the road and here to there.
Some couples were feeding each other, and I tried to avoid them carefully, but they looked at me and fed each other. Then, unexpectedly, I met a friend in the library. I formally said, “Hello, hi!”
Around 4.30 pm, that friend asked me to have coffee, and we went for coffee to nearby Topri (stall). We discussed intellectualism and how that is different from each other’s perspectives. We came back by 4.30 pm and started working on my writings.
However, being loved and having love are interchangeably existing for me. Because love can be seen in any form with anything like; with readings and feel the romance with that, write and feel the lovely itself.
So I believe that celebrating academics, acquaintances, romantic, strangers, family, friends and so on are to be loved with various forms that help us uplift one another.
Buddha said that love towards humans and spread love. Love exists everywhere but needs watering. Finally, Valentine’s day is meant for emotional development for me where it can be found in books, friends, and so on.