Valentine's day

(originally i wrote this in a note in Facebook.. but it got me in the mood to start up my blogging, so i figured it was only fit that i replicate it here... I know i wrote it because i couldn't be with the one i want to be with on this day, in the hopes she reads it and knows i'm still thinking of her.. a sneaky way of allowing me to give her a valantine without actually giving her one.. heh.. but it is also something i believe to be true.. so read! as always, i welcome feedback..)

oddly enough, for as much of a fool for love and romance as i am, i don't celebrate Valentine's day..
 

i *understand* it..  i get it.. and i recognize it.. but i've always felt picking just one particular day to show you someone you love em just wasn't quite right.. and never really "enough".. i'd rather tell someone i love em every day.. do something special for them on a consistantly irregular basis (keep em on their toes!), to show that you care, you're just thinking of them, and they're worth making an effort for.. and hell, that you're just plain happy they're a part of your life!




not that doing something special for your Hunny Feb 14th should be SHUNNED.. i just don't think it should be an acceptable excuse for *not* doing little things for the one you love over the course of the rest of the year.. Love is a partnership of mutual respect, passion and true caring for that special someone who shares your space and time.


so rather than just let the day pass, i invested some time and came across this:
http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/st-valentine-beheaded



one theory of how valentine's day started.. in a nutshell: an unfair decree in the pax romana is passed (no marriages or engagments), Priest defies "the man", marrying people in secret, and gets beheaded for it.

Pretty unsavory when you mash it down into it's basic parts.


but the devil's in the details..
- the priest defied tyranny to allow true love to flourish, even in the face of possible (and in his case, eventual) death..
- a note left for his jailor's daughter, of thanks for her companionship  (and possible love), found in his cell on the day of his execution

so if you take anything from my ramblings, take this executive summary.. this priest died for the service of love, and so in honor of his noble intentions, on this day, tell the one you love "you love them" today, by prose, writ, or word..

and keep  remembering them for the other 364 days that come.



so on that note: :O)

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Flowers bloom and wither, pictures fade, "unforgettable" events come and go..
memories become convoluted over time; details of where and what, faltering..

except for those truly special times, burned forrever in the mind..
never failing.. never forgotten.. always as vivid and bright as if only yesterday..

every day i spend with you
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a wise man once said "of all the emotions i could choose,  I choose love"
abso-lootly.. :O)

Happy valentines day!
"Death cannot stop true love. All it can do is delay it for a while."