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 give and 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.
Celebrations
for Valentine’s Day will continue to grow, regardless of the emotional response
of requited or unrequited love, as it would appear that the ripple effect of
romantic love undulates on forever, unless stifled.
Love is eternal and thus,
the love created on Valentine’s Day will grow forever, because of its ripple
effect.
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