February 14th gift

Nizar al Musalmy -

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The day before yesterday — February 14th came as expected. This is the day that the mother of junior looks down upon and I still don’t understand why but I saw some people striving to renew the bond of love with their beloved ones to mark the day.

They went deep in expressing their love in different ways to their lovers. On that day, these people’s hearts dripped into a deep, tender and overwhelming feeling of affection and solicitude. The day made life become very beautiful for lovers.

They made all sorts of dreams. On this day I saw many leaving no stone unturned in the effort of unlocking the way to their lover’s hearts.

The so-called ‘lovers’ in a climax of stupidity endeavoured to make themselves too busy thinking hard about that gift and all those items to deliver to their equally obsessed partners.

They bought special presents with a mission of leaving their loved ones speechless. And I tell you what; never try to stop someone in love to celebrate his/her love. Even those who have brains will, in those circumstances, act crazy.

So they work so hard in doing all they can during that shopping spree because they know that their lovers expect a special gift.

But on this day or on any other, no man should underestimate the process of choosing a present for his wife. The challenge would be which gift to avoid.

Most men are terrible in choosing gifts and that is why one has to be very careful lest he loses his dignity. In the name of expressing true love to one’s wife, a man has to be very careful and cautious in choosing what kind of gift to give her.

I say this because I know women have all the potential of changing moods at any one point in time and what you think is the best gift to give her can be thrown on your face just there and then. Keep all reservations intact for your gift can be taken as an insult.

Take, as an example, a man going out of his way and buys his partner a diet book as a gift.

It is very considerate of you to wish for your partner to live a healthy life, but with all your good intentions that diet book might be a reason for you to be accused of implying that she reminds you of an animal that starts with a letter ‘E’.

Imagine a husband coming home to celebrate his wife’s love and brings in a cookware as a gift.

He might have heard her complaining about old kitchen utensils and lack of enough frying pans and saucepans, but a man should never restock the kitchen item and expect the wife to count it as a gift.

The doctors will promote things like tooth brush, tooth paste, roll on, mouth wash as essential things to have. But within the lovers’ context, the implication can be brutal. If she needs them just buy them, but not as gifts.

Please don’t even think of buying her cleaning utensils such as brooms, rags, dustbins, moppers as gifts. She might think you have gone bonkers.

So next time you are out to buy your partner a gift in the pretext of love, remember the correct size, avoid cheaper ones than what the beloved already has. Never buy any that can be used by both of you. Stick to appropriate, special, delicate, personal, elite, exclusive, romantic and symbolic gifts.

Your expression will impress for a long time. Enjoy your weekend and take care!