Happy belated Valentines Day to anyone who is reading this. I hope you felt loved by whomever was in your world…boyfriend/girlfriend or otherwise.
I had a thought about those ‘celebratory days’ that come around every year and wondered what the aftermath of those days hold for different people. For instance, Independence Day in the US – what people feel (if they feel anything) after the day of remembering such a significant time in their history. Do we just go on celebrating a day once in a year, or do some of us go on to take that celebration into other parts of the year? I dont think there is a right or wrong answer to that question. But I love hearing stories of where a special day, has become someones special week or even a special moment of a lifetime.E.g. Like Valentines Day.
Being a girl, we get all lovey dovey on this day, for no other reason than we like the idea of feeling loved. I love hearing about the marriage proposals on the news that tend to happen on Valentines Day and get pumped for all the couples out there who will now never forget the day when…
If you said that sentence to yourself: ‘I never forget the day when…’, how would you finish it? Would your ‘never forget moment’ be the day you got married, the day of your 40th birthday surprise, the day of your daughter or sons birth or even the day something tragic may have happened in your world?
Its amazing to me how some days seem to just pass us by and other are forever ingrained in our minds and hearts for eternity.
Getting back to this Valentines, I didn’t receive any surprise proposals or roses for that matter. But I love giving choccies and roses out so I felt like I was amongst all of the love on the day. It was awesome to see all the men herding around the card counter at the card shop re-reading over the contents of the card then looking at their watches to make sure that they had enough time to buy roses for their loved one.
Even though I don’t know the exact significance of Valentines Day, I love it how to the rest of the world, there is a reminder in our calendar to LOVE PEOPLE. Which is essentially what it means to me.
I remember the day I received my first Valentine gift. I was in highschool and someone had paid someone else to sing part of a love song anonymously to me and gave me a rose. It was so cute. And to this day, I still have no idea who sent it to me, but I love it that I now have a memory stuck in my brain of a gesture of love and have experienced the excitement of spontaneity that comes with a gift.
I have had another moment where someone gave me quite a significant gift which was so generous, that it has impacted my life forever. So much so, that one day, I hope to be able to give that same gift back to someone else. And the person who gave it to me, doesnt even know how much it meant to me at the time and it was over 15 years ago!
So what am I saying after all this…?
Really, I’m just reminding you that you are loved, that without sounding too mushy, you are a gift to someone else and that you never know what affect of what you say or do can have on someone else.
Your gift of generosity, or action one day, much just become the next day in a calendar that a nation may celebrate in 100 years time. And if not a nation, someone in the corner of the earth will remember you and never forget you ever.
Rather than just celebrate a special or significant day, take the time so make that day last a life time, if not for you, then for someone else.
You just never know what love can do…
xx
An
Christian Upgrade 
Leave a comment