Feeling the Love?

Call me cynical or just plain miserable, but I hate Valentines Day, always have. Maybe it’s because I haven’t been lucky to find someone who will lavish me with gifts and love yet, but I also feel that its very much overrated, another excuse for retailers to con people out of their money for presents and cards. And for those of us sadly on our own, it’s just another big reminder of the fact. And when you’re feeling low about being alone, it’s just makes things seem worse. Like you’re not worthy of being loved. It’s hard to stomach.

My mental wellbeing has taken a dip today as I expected it to. Thoughts of not being good enough, of loneliness, heightened as my heart is heavy. As I contemplate a night alone on the sofa tonight, it doesn’t fill me with much joy as I listen to others talk about their dinner plans and so on.  But then something occurred to me. That I am loved. I have good friends, family which I feel very lucky to have beside me. And I love them as much as they love me. So what if I don’t have ‘the one’ right now, I have to remember that doesn’t mean that I’m alone. And its just another day after all. You should tell someone you love them any day, not just today. And if you do, it means more than that grand gesture on what really is just another commercial farce.

In the words of Miranda Hart, someone who I can only admire, there is no shame in singleness. You are loved just for being and don’t need relationships to define and justify you.

I just need to keep telling myself that….

Love is Music

Love is Friendship

Love is Harmony

Love is happiness

Love is Respect

Love is Family

Love is the people we meet who make life better in every way.

Love is everywhere