Little gestures of love

Isn't it amazing how we call the month of February the month of love and narrow down the fourteen of February as the lover's day? The last valentine celebration which was few days ago had the internet buzzing with various expressions of love in different forms. Right in the midst of these, the one thing that kept coming onto my mind is what will happen to the remaining 364 days when your partner needs just a little gesture of love from you? Oh! You serve them with 364 days of bitterness, unhappiness, inconsiderate affections, and maybe obvious disdain only to buy flowers, cards and gifts on Valentine's day.


Love can never be compressed. Just like every other aspects of our life where you achieve competence by daily practice and consistency, love is an intentional decision to be consistent in showing love to people that matter everyday. You actually don't need to wait till Valentine's day when emotions are high and overrated to show that you truly care. The expression of love should be an everyday thing and never a single day thing. If you're only mushy mushy and lovestruck on Valentine's day, they your love should be questioned. If you can act anyhow for the remaining days and just be good only on Valentine's day, then it is really pointless Some people even extend love to those adorable kids in orphanage homes only on Valentine's day, which is really beautiful but what happens to those sweet souls for the remaining 364 days?


 Love needs consistency to grow, however, you can decide to take it up a notch on Valentine's day, but it should not end there. Just like a little drop of water makes a mighty ocean, so also little gestures of love daily can go a long way to express love better. On some days, you will need to plant forgiveness while some days will request you to sacrifice things that are extremely dear to you. Acts of kindness will confront you head on, some days will simply demand a kind word, while on other days, your listening ear is all that will make your partner's day. Some days, you will have to be calm and allow your partner have his / her crazy moments in peace. All these eventually add up to the expression of love. Love is a daily thing and it grows better with little gestures.

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