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It is too rash, too unadvised, too sudden.
Romeo and Juliet, 2. 2

When you least expect it someone can enter into your life with the effect of a cyclone, it has the same emotional effect on your mind and body as it does on the earth, devestating but relieving the drought, in this case the drought being lack of that true feeling of connection. People come and go in your life on a daily basis, and then there are the few who are supposed to be there, in one form or another, forever. Tropical cyclones help to maintain the earths equilibrium by maintaining a relatively stable and warm temperature worldwide , likened in my mind to that easy feeling you have when you are with someone who is simply 'just right', achieving that comfortable and necessary balance .... although this is a rare and beautiful thing, and can be considered to be the lull 'after' the storm.

On occasion these people are ones that you may have overlooked, due to circumstance, or initial fear of them not being what you think you are looking for. Then they can leave you just one short simple message, and 'BAM' you are hooked, something inside is screaming at you to follow this through... no matter what appears to be standing in your way, fear is no longer an option.

Why is it certain people have the ability to make us tick, very loudly ?... the feeling becoming overwhelming in a matter of hours, the need and lust for more contact with immediate effect, the desperation to know more, to know everything, to share. Getting so caught up, that anything else that enters the time you have 'together' feels like a rude and harsh form of punctuation... a full stop in the middle of a perfectly formed sentence.

It overcomes tiredness and pain, it overtakes the ability to think normally, it changes your heartbeat to one that you no longer recognise, but one that you like, in that odd adreniline fueled way. Your senses are heightened, you become so aware of touch and smell, everything you are doing at that moment feels different. You feel you could take on the world because you have someone to experience it with, is this how superpowers are harnesed ? Does love conquer all ?

Maybe modern technology has killed old fashioned romance ?, everything is so fast paced now that we tend to expect things instantly, sadly I think that also includes romance ... getting a 'Will you be my Valentine' txt or email certainly doesnt make the heart smile like a card dropping through your door from a secret admirer !! Maybe we just don't 'do' romance like we used to, I guess all things move on, secretly I think its a shame, I remember the sheer excitement wondering if the postman was going to pop an envelope through the door containing a card with the letters S.W.A.L.K on the outside.

Has Valentines day become just another day, we seem to constantly send hugs, kisses, pokes and messages of love and lust on a regular basis through various mediums, has the meaning of real love been lost through accessability of contact.

To-morrow is Saint Valentine's day,
All in the morning betime,
And I a maid at your window,
To be your Valentine.
Then up he rose, and donn'd his clothes,
And dupp'd the chamber-door;
Let in the maid, that out a maid
Never departed more.—William Shakespeare, Hamlet, Act IV, Scene 5

We also have the over priced hype of ' St Hallmark's day, useless tat fills the shops, cards with prewritten slush ( another thing lost, the art of writing a personal message) the price of a rose trebles and somewhat cheapens the whole idea of love .. isn't that what its supposed to be about ?

Should we make more effort to bring back romance, I for one may make a card and write a short poem this year .. I don't want to lose the art of romantic anonymity xXx

The rose is red, the violet's blue
The honey's sweet, and so are you

Thou are my love and I am thine
I drew thee to my Valentine
The lot was cast and then I drew
And Fortune said it shou'd be you