Well, ladies and gents and my fellow doctors.
Today is Valentine's day. A day that is used to commerate love and everything to do with love, be it friends, family and lovers. But what exactly is love?
A question that has baffled the minds of scientists, psychologists, doctors, artists, poets etc for centuries. We try to find a rational explanation what love is and if it has anything to do with the heart, mind or brain. Of late, scientist have said that love is mad up of the chemical reaction in the brain itself.
But why rely on such scientific findings to explain a basic but yet oft misunderstood emotion? Sometimes there can be no answer as to why things happen and why we feel the way we feel about someone or something. It is just there.
Love can manifest in many forms. For mankind (a very PR, PC, Miss Universe kinda answer), for friends and most importantly your loved ones. It can be as patient Nai Meh has stated something very simple such as walking side by side or gazing into each others eyes, waking up to find the person you love beside you still sleeping (of course, let us ignore all the misadventures with morning breath). It is that simple.
Take this day and spend time with the person you care about, not just today, but every other day.
Lastly a poem for all the lovers out there by W.H Auden:
I'll love you,dear, I'll love you
till China and Africa meet
and the river jumps over the mountain
and the salmon sing in the street,
I'll love you till the ocean
is folded and hung up to dry
and the seven stars go squawking
like geese about the sky
The years shall run like rabbits
for in my arms I hold
the flower of the ages
and the first love of the world.
