In a few days, we will be lucky to acknowledge the ones we love by telling them with cards, candy, flowers, or jewelry that we love them. Though, once day a year should never be enough to express for those closest to us we love them. Valentine's Day is indeed a very important day, but perhaps we should allow it to mean more.
Over the past years, I have been among the unlucky few (or many) who don't have a significant other with whom to share Valentine's Day. I saw this holiday as a way for those with someone to rub that fact in the noses of the rest of us who don't have a special someone. In fact, I started to refer to it as Singles Awareness Day or SAD day because you become extremely aware of your single status; Facebook has done nothing to help with that awareness. I began to notice more the couples holding hands, kissing, and showing all forms of affection for each other. I became very embittered and more and more hateful seeing public displays of affection. Love seemed to be a foreign thing I would never know and it hurt. Loneliness is never what anyone wants.
However, this year, though I don't have anyone to call my love, boyfriend, partner, etc., I have a new desire to look at loved ones, though not intimate loved ones, that I can surround myself with as a blessing. I have great friends, family, parents, a grandmother, and many others that I can list among those I love and that love me. I realize how blessed I am to have so much love in my life. I am blessed and I want to acknowledge, this year, that love.
I love and am loved. Who could ask for more? I used to think love was just thrown around without thinking of its true purpose behind its use. But who can judge the intent behind using love so freely? I am not one who can judge. Love should not be contained because I am bitter about not having a significant other to share it with. Love is. Love should not be stifled or hidden. This year, Singles Awareness Day is no more for me; SAD day is not existent. I can't let it be ruinous to the positive energy with which I want to surround myself.
To my friends, I love you. Mom and Dad, eu te amo. To my brothers and sisters, 愛してる . This year, whether you say, "je t'aime;" "eu te amo;" "愛してる;" "ich liebe dich;" "我爱你;" "Ti amo;" "Я вас люблю;" "I love you," or any other variation of the phrase, don't worry about how you say I love you, just say it.
Over the past years, I have been among the unlucky few (or many) who don't have a significant other with whom to share Valentine's Day. I saw this holiday as a way for those with someone to rub that fact in the noses of the rest of us who don't have a special someone. In fact, I started to refer to it as Singles Awareness Day or SAD day because you become extremely aware of your single status; Facebook has done nothing to help with that awareness. I began to notice more the couples holding hands, kissing, and showing all forms of affection for each other. I became very embittered and more and more hateful seeing public displays of affection. Love seemed to be a foreign thing I would never know and it hurt. Loneliness is never what anyone wants.
However, this year, though I don't have anyone to call my love, boyfriend, partner, etc., I have a new desire to look at loved ones, though not intimate loved ones, that I can surround myself with as a blessing. I have great friends, family, parents, a grandmother, and many others that I can list among those I love and that love me. I realize how blessed I am to have so much love in my life. I am blessed and I want to acknowledge, this year, that love.
I love and am loved. Who could ask for more? I used to think love was just thrown around without thinking of its true purpose behind its use. But who can judge the intent behind using love so freely? I am not one who can judge. Love should not be contained because I am bitter about not having a significant other to share it with. Love is. Love should not be stifled or hidden. This year, Singles Awareness Day is no more for me; SAD day is not existent. I can't let it be ruinous to the positive energy with which I want to surround myself.
To my friends, I love you. Mom and Dad, eu te amo. To my brothers and sisters, 愛してる . This year, whether you say, "je t'aime;" "eu te amo;" "愛してる;" "ich liebe dich;" "我爱你;" "Ti amo;" "Я вас люблю;" "I love you," or any other variation of the phrase, don't worry about how you say I love you, just say it.
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