Quick Thoughts On This Year's Valentine's Day
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If you must insist on going with the flowery options then I suggest that you employ an operatically poetic endeavour. You should buy her the rose garden and keep it watered. Do not buy roses or flowers as single bouquets. It is too hot. If you buy roses or flowers as single bouquets, they'll wilt before they ever make the ostentatatious statement you wish them to make. Before they are an imposing reminder of you everytime she stares at her window sill, the flowers will've become a sad black mass of withered petals. So don't buy flowers. Don't get chocolates either, you'll be sorry. They'll be a melted mess long before they make their way to her. Again, it's too hot. And Valentine's day-the eternal stitch binding love sick hearts together as one-won't survive this heat. The fusing of red hearts with black ones might not, after all, produce instant love, peace and harmony.
Or maybe that's just my pessimistic talk. And apparently, "if you do not honor Valentine's day, then you're not romantic enough. You're not deserving of everlasting flourish in the sparklier gardens of earth...you shouldn't know of the overwhelming love that pours forth from its bosom...you deserve a lonely despair-plagued end...et cetera et cetera."
But Valentine's day is on a Sunday, which doesnt bode well with the working class. What's the point of believing in magic if one can't enjoy it well past midnight? What's the point of a holiday if one can not get a valid day off work?
What's more, seeing as Uganda looks impressively 'war torn' with the UPDF roaming city streets in anticipation of elections, it is a little too intimidating to run around gift hunting-this, by the way, is my excuse to any hopeful valentine out there. It's even much harder to assume the role of someone's valentine when (still blaming the army and heat), your heart can only handle as much pressure as humanly possible, but it is what it is.
So happy valentine's day!
P.S: those flowers are cute, that's all
Or maybe that's just my pessimistic talk. And apparently, "if you do not honor Valentine's day, then you're not romantic enough. You're not deserving of everlasting flourish in the sparklier gardens of earth...you shouldn't know of the overwhelming love that pours forth from its bosom...you deserve a lonely despair-plagued end...et cetera et cetera."
But Valentine's day is on a Sunday, which doesnt bode well with the working class. What's the point of believing in magic if one can't enjoy it well past midnight? What's the point of a holiday if one can not get a valid day off work?
What's more, seeing as Uganda looks impressively 'war torn' with the UPDF roaming city streets in anticipation of elections, it is a little too intimidating to run around gift hunting-this, by the way, is my excuse to any hopeful valentine out there. It's even much harder to assume the role of someone's valentine when (still blaming the army and heat), your heart can only handle as much pressure as humanly possible, but it is what it is.
So happy valentine's day!
P.S: those flowers are cute, that's all
