VALENTINE, Destinies are Bartered in Your name. By Sumakada Musa Amos

VALENTINE, DESTINIES ARE BARTERED IN YOUR NAME.

By Sumakada Musa Amos

Valentine's Day, also called Saint Valentine's Day or the Feast of Saint Valentine, is celebrated annually on February 14. It was first celebrated in the 15th Century.

 Valentine's Day is recognized as a significant cultural, religious, and commercial celebration of romance and romantic love.

 The core essence of Valentine has metamorphosed from just presenting of  flowers to love ones to gifting of  cash or sophisticated material things....you know them.

Today particularly in Nigeria, little girls and ladies will dress in red; randy boys and men would have secured a “val” who they will play typical Romeo and Juliet with. They see it as a day to eat the forbidden fruit; a day of free sex as some call it. Forgetting there are free consequences attached.

Desperate guys can budget their lifetime earnings or even more if they have their way to make that girl happy at the detriment of their future. They dream big for Mr Valentine as if their future depends on him.

Few years back a fellow bought a phone of fifty two thousand Naira for his Val, whereas, he was using torchlight Nokia - a type which had no battery cover - just because he wants to please his Val.

  So many young men spend away their future to prove their love and responsiveness to a lady. Brother wake up! That's stupidity and recklessness. If you eat today what you are supposed to eat tomorrow, you will die of hunger tomorrow.

  Ladies on the other hand 'dress to kill' as they say, but I call it 'dress to be killed' do you know why? Most of those 'Slay Queens' destinies are changed, shattered, bartered and aborted on such a day. Like Esau, many give away their virginity as exchange for a single Morsel of enjoyment.

  Valentine is so popular that it plays into the illusion that there is love among a people whom actually do not love themselves. The day has become so sentimental and `expensive day’ of love, as one can see in our materialistic society today.

  Yet, it can also be a time to soberly reflect on our love for others, also, on the true essence of love in its self. Than the 'take me out' of a thing.


Happy Valentine's day!