Why does Valentine's Day reveal requited versus unrequited love? What is it about Valentine’s
Day that causes its popularity to grow and swell with its ripple effect
creating a celebration that surges like the tide, around the globe?
Perhaps looking at the ripple
effect of love will help to explain this unique, human phenomenon. One might
ask if there can ever be too much love in the world. To that question, one must
answer in the negative. The world has the capacity to receive ongoing
expressions of love in many different contexts. The romantic love of
Valentine’s Day has its own special appeal to potential lovers, all around the
globe.
Love is an emotional phenomenon
that creates ripples, like those of water tumbling from the rocks. A waterfall
creates a ripple effect that leads to the creation of even more ripples. The
ripple effect is boundless, as the wavelike movements continue to undulate.
By its very nature, it is not
possible to contain love. Love bursts forth from whatever heart would attempt
to contain it. Its ripple effect continues to spread. There are those who try
to contain it, instead of allowing love’s ripple effect to be experienced
fully.
The word undulation, as defined
in the free dictionary.com suggests “a regular rising and falling or movement
to alternating sides, movement in waves, a wavelike form, outline, or
appearance and one of a series of waves or wavelike segments.” Scientific explanations of
undulation suggest “a
sine curve, sinusoid, the curve of y=sin x”. Can one apply a sine curve to
the emotions? Perhaps one might try.
The romantic love phenomenon of
Valentine’s Day triggers the innate desire to give traditional gifts of cards,
chocolates and flowers. It may lead to the giving of expensive tokens intended
to express undying love. The Cupid phenomenon playfully alerts one to romantic
involvement and the possibility of a potential future relationship.
The words
“I love you,” seem contagious.
The ones to whom the ripple
effects of romantic love are directed, do not necessarily accept or welcome the
passionate emotions that are aroused. Thus, at times, Cupid’s attempts to
awaken romantic love with his penetrating arrow can prove futile. The targeted
receiver may scorn, ignore or reject the feelings aroused by his arrow. The emotions experienced may be
negative or appear to be feelings of repulsion. These kinds of negative
emotional responses tend to devastate the giver, as they stifle or quench the
flame of love that otherwise leads to the positive, ripple effect of love that
radiates around the globe.
Love is eternal and thus the love created
on Valentine’s Day will grow forever, because of its ripple effect.
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