In fact, they are deliberate exaggerations solely intended to give emphasis. Second, although the expressions are now considered clichés because they have long been overused and are everywhere, nonetheless, they still convey a basic truth. This truth is that love is a set of intense emotions, behaviors, and experiences that border on attachment, deep affection, care, commitment, and sacrifice by one for another. Third, because love is an emotion of one person for another, it is necessarily and intrinsically a risk, not a guarantee. No matter what we do to convey it, or how we express it to the one we love, there is absolutely no guarantee that our love for another may foil betrayal, or be reciprocated or permanent.
If the sweet story about the date of February 14 being celebrated as a day of love in honor of Saint Valentine is true, then his assumed death for love was laudatory and worthy of emulation. Similarly, if Geoffrey Chaucer’s writings on romantic love in the 14th century are the reason why we perceive this date as a time for romance, all the more reason we should celebrate the day and its significance as often as we can. In an age when we are likely to wage both peace and war concurrently and sometimes consecutively, if the month of February is recognized globally as a month for love, for the simple reason that where love abounds there can be no war, then, I reckon that, we need more than one February in a year. In fact, if, from time to time, we could pull back the curtain on humanity’s basic instinct for love, we may be able to expose and consequently retain love’s allure, at all times.
