L.O.V.E

Those who celebrate valentine's day nowadays and are in fact still single, usually call it "single awareness day" and many others who choose not to celebrate it, hide behind the excuse that it is simply another commercial attempt to get you to spend money on a loved one, but v-day is in fact older than Christmas itself and although borrowed to honor a Catholic priest, valentine's day is very much in fact a pagan pre-roman pastoral festival, observed from Feb 13 to the 15th to avert evil spirits and purify the city, releasing health and fertility; a festival dedicated to Lupercalia, believed to be a lycan deity.

So what is the real purpose of valentine's? I always say to those who ask that the holiday is and should be a celebration of love, love as a whole and not only romantic love. Love has many shapes and forms and even thought our constant search is that of romantic companionship and glorifying it, shouting it to the four corners of the earth when we do have it, limiting love to that sole area is absurd.

I happen to be blessed with many types of love in my second life, the love of my sons, of my close friends, of those who I call my family and that of my husband, so when the day comes I make sure that each and every single one of them knows how I feel about them, but it sure doesn't stop after valentines, since love, true love doesn't need to be worded but shown.

If you are also blessed, make sure those around you causing it also know it; cause your actions to do the talking.

Happy valentines day