A Valentine to remember…
Posted by patrickhew on February 15, 2007
It was 6.17pm on a rain-soaked evening… I told myself, “Uh-oh, I’ve got to go now…” That’s the last thing that caught my eye on my computer screen before I logged off and called it a day. Rushing to pack my belongings, I hurried myself out of the office and headed for my car parked in the basement of the building. Another quick glance at my watch shows that 7 minutes has passed by since I left my workplace. “Oh heavens, the roads are filled with like-minded people now… can I still make it? Well, there’s no choice, I HAVE TO MAKE IT!”, I muttered to myself as I negotiate a bend leading towards the main roads jammed with cars.
The stream of cars that seemed to have no end and movement of traffic at a snails pace did not help either. Time was ticking by fairly quickly and so was my temper! I could hear the blaring sound of car honks and occassional motorcycles zooming pass by and my mind wanders far into the nothingness where all I could think of was how I’ve spent my past years Valentine’s Day celebration… the happy moments that I’ve enjoyed and experienced never fails to put a smile on my face. While enjoying these sweet memories, I became oblivious to time and everything around me… Nothing seemed to have mattered anymore; There were NO traffic jams, NO worries, NO hassle.
As I snapped out of my ‘mini’ daze, I glanced at the digital clock on the my car dashboard and the time shows 7.13pm… The surrounding looks quite different now with the brightly lit street lamps all along the street, buildings with their bright lights lit up the now twilight sky… and the snail paced movement at which I was cursing and swearing at about earlier seems to have eased quite a bit as I enter the last leg of my journey. I was now only a few minutes away from home and that’s when I realised that my ordeal through ‘hell’ traffic was finally coming to an end. The next 10 minutes of driving was one at leisure with my mind now not as tensed as when I first started out on my journey. A few more bends through some housing estate and I was finally home…
As I stepped out of my car and walked towards the doorsteps of my house, a sense of enlightenment and appreciation dawned upon me… The reflection I had earlier on let me realise that the true meaning of the celebration of valentine’s day is about sharing love with your loved ones… be it your partner in life or your family. The thought of love is not as what’s shown in commercials over radio nor is it about gifts of chocolate and flowers. It’s about a togetherness that we knit with our loved ones that’s called a relationship!
To my Parents, brother and sisters, all I wanna say is “I Love you All!”… This truly was a Valentine to remember…
