Tuesday, February 15, 2011

Valentine's Day and a dozen red roses

I remember Valentine's Day to be at it's peak (I mean the marketing part of it)during our college days.Showrooms of Archies and Hallmark used to be thronged by Cupid-struck youth buying cards and teddy bears.Flower sellers used to make fortune as love knows neither limits nor budgets.I was never meant to be left behind....used to buy at least 2 or 3 cards with romantic,mushy overflow of words to be sent to my long -distance Valentine only to get one single card from him with only three crisp and clear words in it...."Happy Valentine's Day"that too which made it to me only by the end of March.

Years of courtship was followed by tying the knot .Our first Valentine's Day as a married couple....I surprised him by sending a dozen red roses to his work place.I was more surprised when he came back at lunchtime with the roses in hand.I thought he had taken the day off to thank me...alas,he had come to keep the roses at home.....he was tired of answering his co-workers if it was his birthday!!

With years,my enthusiasm has also slowed down.Every Valentine's Day we remind each other that we don't need a special day to acknowledge ("display" ,in his words)our love for each other.(Sounds cliched??I know!)

Yesterday was Valentine's Day again.The morning passed away helping my little girl make cards for her teachers and friends,finding a dress for her with a heart drawn on it for her to wear to school.The afternoon was busy making preparations for a typical Bengali dinner as the hubby would be on an official tour for the next five days and would miss home food .When the son came home,I didn't forget to ask if he has anything important to tell me.He didn't....so far,so good!(No Valentine's yet...Mommy is happy!)While making dinner ,I rang up the hubby reminding him to pick up the milk and bread while coming home.

The evening went off smoothly.The dinner turned out well.When it was time to give my little one her night time milk,Iremembered that hubby hasn't bought the milk as directed.But no,he didn't forget to bring the milk,only forgot to bring it out of the car.So ,Here I was opening the car to get out the milk....and what do I see? A bunch of 12 red roses ......Yes,a dozen of them!!Seems the man coudn't resist himself from succumbimg to the society's or the store's pressure of "displaying" his love on this particular day.I smiled remembering the young man who came running from office one day, too embarassed that his wife was "displaying" her love!!

Things have changed but not our love!!:)

10 comments:

  1. I think beautiful and the best surprises are much awaited till the last minute of the day and I think u had recieved a very lovely surprise and it could be have been more surprising if uncle had added choclates and teddy bear to it . :)

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  2. True LOVE doesn't need a public display of affection. As long as you can feel the warmth of each others heart, you are fine.

    Anyway absolutely beautiful piece of writing. Keep it up and let us enjoy.

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  3. Very true, as usual after an hectic weekend, both of us were running all around on 14th Feb morning, as it being Monday and after 4 years of marriage, we didn't even felt or remembered will be the right word, to wish each other. Once settled down in office, got sms's from frens how they are surprised by their respective hubbys. Some one told me that she got the bunch of roses delivered in her office, some said that the hubby dear booked Bryan Adam's concert tickets for them......n I was wondering ki ab tera kya hoga kaliya, tu to bilkul budiyay gayi hai.....chalo after a long hectic day, on my way back to home, I planned that let me treat my hubby dear with his fav Chinese dinner, which can be termed as V day celebration. Because I was damn sure that he will never bring anything for me. So after an hour of preparation, I was waiting for him to get back by his usual 10 pm time....but he was back by 8pm, which at first made me worried about his health, but after keeping his laptop bag on one side, he handed over a packet to me and asked me to open it. Assuming any official stuff, he is asking me to keep in almirah, I opened up the packet to find my fav Egg Chicken Roll and a plate of steamy hot Chicken Momos.....on my surprised and amazed reaction, he very softly responded, U likes them very much, so thought of bringing them for u today as chocolates are not good for u as per the doc.May be this is also one of his way of showing love in this Archies dominated V day

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  4. Thanks everyone!!@Panchali,happy for u!!

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  5. That's pretty good.... Love is never supposed to die, and the way you have described it, it seems that both of you fit into the equation perfectly...!! Too Good!! :):):)

    My 20th V.Day was again empty... :O
    But single life rocks as well(up to an age)....... :D :P

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  6. too good... beautiful piece of writing :)

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  8. @Hitesh,enjoy ur single status till it lasts!
    Thanks Joydeep!!

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  9. I loved your blog Paramita Di. Liked each and every post..especially this one :)

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  10. @Meghpeon,Thanks for reading...:)

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