People often ask me if I believe real love still exists. Hell yes, yes I do. I think there are some great examples around us every day if we choose to open our eyes. I know Hallmark seems to have commercialized a great many of our beloved holidays, but I am not anti-valentines day. There are some people who simply forget to acknowledge the significance of another without advertising to remind them. A holiday, like any day can be as special and individual as we want.
The question should be, "Why do we need Hallmark to remind us that the people in our lives are special?"
If you have begun to think that valentines and love don't matter, then watch children when they come home with their bag of Valentines from school. Brian always acts like he is too cool to enjoy such a ridiculous day .. until his neighbor friend comes over after school. "Brian what did you get?" Marion asks. Brian grins, "Some cool stuff, come look!". They dig through his Valentines talking about the girls whose names are written on some of them. Yeah right ... they don't love knowing that they matter to other people (rolling my eyes). We all want to matter to someone.
I don't know how many of you have been following the story about the Northern California couple where the husband was attacked by a mountain lion. The wife, thinking "HELL NO YOU AREN'T TAKING MY HUSBAND" (was she once a redhead?) fought the lion off her husband, pulled him to his feet literally dragging him to safety.
I love this story, and it is a story about a couple obviously still deeply in love. The husband was due to go home from the hospital as referenced in the following SFGate article:
I wish them both a very Happy Valentines Day. They get my vote for the Valentines couple of the year.
They are an inspiration to us all.
Until next time-
C
