Here it is… a holiday that women in relationships get excited for, men cringe, single ladies get depressed and single men avoid going out all together.
I actually started writing this last week but due to working every day, it was placed on the back burner.
I recently saw this commercial and absolutely fell in love with it! It reminds me of when I was a kid and my first Valentine – Mom!
I look forward to a time when I can be a valentine to my own children. When I can send them off to school with a packet of stickers or pencils decorated in adorable hearts. I have also seen the other commercials which bother me and make me feel so bad for the male gender. Almost forced by society to go out and purchase expensive tacky heart shaped jewelry just to “keep up with the Jones” plus buying over priced flowers to send to the office just so she can prove to her co-workers that she is loved. Sigh… How did we go from having to write a valentine for everyone in class to make everyone feel special to boasting to others that we are more loved then them?
I am lucky…because I don’t have one valentine this year. I have 30+! That’s right! I love these people beyond a shadow of a doubt and if I needed anything, I know they would be there for me in a minute. Same goes for me. I love them. I would do almost anything for them. I am there to pick them up when they are down and celebrate when the occasion calls for it. They are family and friends that I wish were family.
So if you are not coupled up this Valentine’s Day and celebrating “Singles Awareness Day” instead, remember that you are probably not alone. That despite not having a honey to take you to a ridiculously expensive dinner in which they made the reservations two months in advance and spent an absorbent amount of money to show (to those around you) that they care, know that you are loved; and not just by ONE person, but by MANY people! To those of you in relationships, I hope you do take the time to tell the person that you love and care about them and are thankful to have them in your life. With words; not just with items you bought in a store before heading home.
PS – to future boyfriends and possible husbands – if you would like to get me a gift for V Day, I prefer gifts in the form of gadgets like vacuums or hand made cards or home baked goodies to hand out to my co-workers. And if you can’t tell by what I just wrote – don’t even think of buying me red roses or a heart shaped pendant that the money would have been better spent as a mortgage payment. If you forget, I think my gagging at the sight of them might be able to remind you!