Happy Valentine's Day

I know I'm pretty silly at times.  It's fun to be silly.  I wish more people would allow themselves to lose their stoic, reserved, "mature" selves and just let loose and have a giggle.  But today, I want to be serious for just a moment.  A moment.

So, Valentine's Day.  Yeah.  I kinda think people have missed, or lost, the point.  Sure, I think the deeper meaning is a celebration of love.  I'm not that much of a cynic.  I just think that people have succumbed to the marketing ploy that you have to buy flowers, chocolates, four-and-a-half-foot tall teddy bears, or whatever the trend of the day is to tell the person you love how IN love you are.


For me, just tell me.  With true sincerity.  With your heart.  Say, "I love you" and mean it. 

I count myself lucky and blessed because K tells me daily and often.  And sometimes when he thinks I've heard it too often or I'm not really listening, he stops me from whatever is distracting me no matter how trivial ("I need to switch out the loads of laundry", "I need to run to the store", etc.) or deeply troubling (which in the end tend to be pretty trivial) and holds my gaze until I acknowledge "I love you." 

I'm not good at telling the people I love how much I love them.  But when I say it, I DO mean it.  Even when I'm not saying it, I'm trying my hardest to show it.  Even in the smallest of gestures.


And when I get really sentimental, I listen to songs like this.  I want to make you feel my love.  If I could sing as well as Adele, I would.  I mean every word.

When the rain is blowing in your face
And the whole world is on your case
I could offer you a warm embrace
To make you feel my love

When the evening shadows and the stars appear
And there is no one there to dry your tears
I could hold you for a million years
To make you feel my love

I know you haven't made your mind up yet
But I would never do you wrong
I've known it from the moment that we met
No doubt in my mind where you belong

I'd go hungry, I'd go black and blue and
I'd go crawling down the avenue
You know there's nothing that I wouldn't do
To make you feel my love

The storms are raging on the rolling sea
And on the highway of regret
The winds of change are blowing wild and free
You ain't seen nothing like me yet

I could make you happy, make your dreams come true
Nothing that I wouldn't do
Go to the ends of the Earth for you
To make you feel my love, To make you feel my love



Today, tell someone you love them. 
And mean it.