Happy (almost) Valentines day!
Like many people, I’ve had some good Valentine’s Days, and… some not so good ones. Being the unmarried gal that I am, the days leading up to Valentines day have often in the past left me feeling downright anxious or glum about the 14th of February. However as the day approaches I feel as though I have been given a new perspective this year and I cannot help but feel excited…
I have begun to realize that Valentine’s Day is about much more than champagne and chocolate (though those things are nice too!) or even being in a relationship (cue: gasp!). It is a day in our busy lives when we officially get to celebrate love… I’m not just talking romantic love, like card companies would have us believe, I’m talking about the amazing day to day stuff that makes the world go round. HOW AWESOME IS THAT?!
I googled Love and it came up that while “Love is an emotion of a strong affection and personal attachment”, it is also “a virtue representing all of human kindness, compassion, and affection —”the unselfish loyal and benevolent concern for the good of another”. Love may describe compassionate and affectionate actions towards other humans, one’s self or creation.” I am convinced that in spite of all our crazy different personalities and preferences that we have all been created to be loved and to love in some capacity… So despite what our relationship status is on facebook I say we use February 14, 2012 to celebrate our love with well… the world….
So this Valentine’s Day, I vote we put the characteristic VDay anxiety or exclusivity aside and celebrate by giving of ourselves… our time, our heart, our money — to people we know, and people we don’t. I vote we share our love in small ways and big with all we meet. And best of all, be generous. Instead of wishing it away or making it about us let’s use today to love a little on the world… let’s pick up garbage and buy starbucks for the person in the lineup behind us, let’s give chocolate to the checkout lady at the grocery store and bake heartshaped cookies and sit down and eat them with homeless friends, let’s bring groceries or meals to single moms and let’s start campaigns to change the world or go skiing and put quarters in jars for schools in Africa (ask me if you want to know more)… let’s give and give and give… because when you do that Mother Theresa (the world’s leading expert on love!) says “If you love until it hurts, there can be no more hurt, only more love”… because LOVE WORKS period… and if there was ever a way to celebrate the day of love I think this is it… so let’s get out there and put our love to work on the world until it hurts, because if we do that something beautiful is going to happen, it will cease to hurt to hurt and there will only be more love!!!…
… So happy vday yall! I hope you feel the incredible love I’m sending you, and I hope that as you give love away that you experience more joy tomorrow than any VDAY you’ve had yet! Tons of Love! HAPPY VALENTINES! (If you need some help getting started go to https://www.facebook.com/helpcreatechange)
