Happy Valentines Day! I love this holiday and I always have. What's not to love about love, especially when it's paired with gaudy paper hearts, flowers and boxes of candy? Swoon! Valentines Day gets a bad rap and every year I find myself defending it. Here's why.
Valentines Day is FUN. Don't believe me? Try out this love calculator. See? It just proves how in love you are. I adore science, don't you? Don't argue with the science behind online love calculators or gaudy paper hearts.
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| You are adorable! I love you, Cupid. I do. |
Valentines Day is supposed to be commercial so unlike other holidays that have been commercialized and trodden on by those horrible, horrible folks at Hallmark....this one is just right. It's the Goldilocks of Hallmark Holidays.
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| This one is just right! |
Valentines Day is supposed to be about romantic love. There is no reason for all the singles to feel bitter and grumpy. You are NOT shortchanged. Not as long as you are still breathing. Don't think"Poor old me! Why don't I have anyone? Valentines Day SUCKS! I hate it!"
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| These are contagious, too. You don't want to share these! |
If only Russell Stover made a box of chocolate covered sour grapes....so many grumpy people would be...well, even grumpier! haha.
The thing is, you-commerically-downtrodden-broken-hearted-singles-and-generally-unromantic-I-only-do-romance-when-I-want-to-I-hate-being-forced....the thing is...Valentines Day is your opportunity to shine with minimal effort. You can't go wrong! Nothing is too much. Nothing is too small. Expressions of love are infinitesimal.
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| Isn't there one in here that says, "Chin up"? |
Maybe you don't have a romantic sweetheart today that is forced to buy you candies and a card and swear to you that he really wanted to do it. Perhaps you are a single girl with no flowers on her desk, thereby failing the work place competition, once again. You know the one. It's the "who has love in their lives and who doesn't" contest.
Maybe you don't have any love at all this year but that is okay. Love is contagious. Gaudy paper hearts and candies are fun and festive, even if they are for the mailman. They lift the spirits. Romantic love deserves celebration because even though we don't have it in our lives every single day of the year or every Valentines Day, the romantic love we do find in our lives is a gift. Romantic love is something to cherish when it happens, not something to demand like a candy heart. Memories of romantic love can (and will) warm your heart years after the fact. Conversely, the hope that you may one day find it (again) in the future is motivating enough to make even the downtrodden get out their running shoes and start eating celery.
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| You are never empty-handed. |
Romantic love. It's contagious. It's good for your blood pressure. It makes everyone happy. Even school children love Valentines and there is a reason. Love is the very best thing in the whole entire world and they know that one day, they will fall in love, too. Remember when you were little and romantic love was something you just knew would happen to you one day, when you grew up? There were no sour grapes. Only anticipation. You got your drivers license since then, didn't you? Don't worry. True love might take longer but it's still worth looking forward to.
Let yourself enjoy it even if your joy is vicarious this year. Buy yourself a chocolate heart on sale if no one else is going to. Don't cry salty tears into it. Enjoy every bite in anticipation of the love that is waiting for you in the future. Life throws so many things at you and some of those things are good.
Love. It always begets more love. It looks good on you. Don't worry, chickadee, if you are alone this year. Wait your turn and when your time comes, enjoy that time to the fullest. Make paper hearts. Revel in the fact that someone thinks you are funny and perfect. Use those dusty pots and pans to make Sunday morning breakfasts and marvel at the strange fact that a leftover box of Russell Stover chocolates pairs surprisingly well with chorizo and eggs.
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| Isn't this sign on Hallmark Street? |
Life is funny like that. Don't feel bad and begrudge the love that you think you don't have today. You have love, you just haven't found each other yet.
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| I made you chorizo and eggs, my love. |
If you are wearing your lucky shoes today and you know who your real love is....go all out! You cannot ever be too cheesy on Valentines Day. Really! Cheese it up. The poison in Cupids' quiver of arrows? Velveeta.
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| Does that poison arrow come with chips and Rotel? |
If you find yourself feeling blue and unloved, that's a lie. You are marvelous and it's impossible to walk this earth without stepping in lots of squishy things, love included. Chin up. Go get some chocolates and wait your turn. Everything is going to be okay. I promise.
Your ever lovin',
Miss Pierce