Hastening to romanticise the “Ides of February” in the heady, pinky Season of Valentine could end up you later repenting bitterly in a dark Shakespearean tragedy of the “Ides of March” !!
In America, people have repented thus with a combined loss of $ 547 million! Read below link:
https://gizmodo.com/ftc-online-romance-scammers-fraud-record-high-2021-1848529748
After you’ve read the above, try and also recall for a moment that famous scene from “Julius Caesar”… (with due apologies to Sir William Shakespeare)
CAESAR: Ha ! Who calls?
CASCA: Quiet, everyone! Quiet! (Music ceases, the trumpets (of Valentine! ) stop playing) .
CAESAR: Who in the crowd is calling me? I hear a voice more piercing than the music of these (Valentine) trumpets calling “Caesar!” Speak. Caesar is listening.
SOOTHSAYER: Beware the Ides of March!
CAESAR What man is that?
BRUTUS: A soothsayer bids you beware the ides of March.
CAESAR: Bring him in front of me. Let me see his face.
CASSIUS: You fellow, come from the throng. Look upon Caesar.
SOOTHSAYER approaches.
CAESAR: What sayst thou to me now? Speak once again.
SOOTHSAYER: Beware the ides of March!
CAESAR: He is a dreamer. Let us leave him. Pass!
Beware! Unlike Caesar, do heed the Shakespearean Soothsayer in matters of the heart especially during the amorous Season of Valentine … Beware the Ides of February!
Sudarshan Madabushi