I already wrote about having a green Valentine’s Day earlier this week, but it’s such a gorgeous day outside I just had to acknowledge it. Truthfully, I don’t have very positive feelings about the holiday. For one thing, the idea of telling people when to celebrate their love and that they need to buy things to prove it irks me. And for another, anyone who’s ever been single on Valentine’s Day knows that the holiday seems like an excuse to torture the unattached. So my husband and I basically don’t celebrate it, preferring instead to show our love “all the days of the year.” And as long as we stick to that, that’s fine by me. It works because my husband really is the kind of guy who constantly leaves me notes, makes things for me, tells me how gorgeous I am, and does little thoughtful things like empty the wastebasket in my office. He’s sort of always thinking of me and that makes me feel warm inside.
Sorry to get all mushy! Anyway, I gave my husband possibly one of the best gifts ever during our first year together when I gave him a free pass on Valentine’s Day. I realized that waiting to see what he was going to do for me or give to me was a sort of sadistic torture test for men, and so I didn’t want to participate. He doesn’t have to do anything or even mention it. And I usually don’t do anything, although sometimes I buy him a giant Reese’s peanut butter heart that he loves, and one time I baked him a heart shaped cake.
Tonight we’re going to open a bottle of really great wine. And I think my feelings have changed a little bit over the years. I don’t think there’s anything wrong with the idea of a whole bunch of people celebrating their love for each other all at the same time. Maybe it will inch us forward in terms of consciousness raising, like when thousands of people meditate or pray at once.
So go ahead and celebrate your love today. And it doesn’t have to be with a romantic partner. There’s all kinds of love in the world, and we need all we can get.
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