Okay, I am a romantic at heart. I will melt into a puddle of mush if I receive a valentine, flowers, chocolates, anything really. I love helping my daughter address all the valentines to her classmates (pirate themed ones this year!) I found it cute beyond words when she reserved the largest one for a certain special boy, and then whispered in my ear that she loved him. I framed the valentine my boyfriend made for me last year, and it hangs above my desk at work where it warms my heart every day. I will never stop enjoying the small and large ways that love transforms life, whether it's new or well-established. And I hope to never become so jaded that I am blind to its magic.
I firmly believe, however, that we cannot love others until we love ourselves fully. If you're not worthy of your own affection, why would you expect someone else to give it to you? You can be amazing all on your own, and the greatest romantic love is one that recognizes that we remain unique individuals even when our lives are intertwined (symbolized perfectly in the above valentine I must say!)
"Once the realization is accepted that even between the closest human beings infinite distances continue, a wonderful living side-by-side can grow, if they succeed in loving the distance between them which makes it possible for each to see the other whole against the sky."
- Rainer Maria Rilke
So if you do observe it: Happy Valentine's Day! And if not, may you nevertheless find little ways to express your love whenever you choose, both to yourself and to your significant other.
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