You saw the title. You chose to read it anyway. Therefore, I reserve the right to be as mushy and sappy as I please.
That being said, I will now admit that I hate the color pink. Red takes a close second in my color ranking system. Those being the major colors of today, Valentine's day doesn't have much of a chance at my acceptance. Also out of all the love languages, gift-giving is the one I'd delete in a heart beat. The whole process is just awkward whether you're giving or receiving. It doesn't matter if it's chocolates or a brand new car. Gifts are awkward, at least for me.
Thank goodness the man in my life agrees. Ok that's a dumb phrase; there are several men in my life. Whatever, you know what I mean.
As I was saying... That certain guy is pretty swell, not just because he doesn't* buy me flowers and chocolates (oh gosh, I am making him look bad now...this is a GOOD thing, people!). I'm not sure if he's just the absolute best guy on the planet or if we just happen to fit together so well that I'm under the illusion that he's perfect** (I warned you about the sappy. Feel free to stop reading whenever you'd like. I still get your page view on my little counter thing. muahaha).
I thought about writing a blog post about God, since he IS love... but then I decided that Valentine's day is about romantic love and although there are people out there who like to describe God's love in those terms, I am not one of them. So I will just allow this paragraph to be a little shout out to the only one who can actually love completely, unselfishly, unconditionally, *insert other good describing words here.* Thank you, God, for your love--for loving us and for allowing us to love each other. I enjoy it.
I also thought about writing about how the word "love" in the English language has lost a lot of it's significance because we use it in way too many situations. However, I think this message has been preached enough and I won't attempt to put a more interesting spin on it. People don't appear to be very interested in changing the way the talk, so I'm not going to waste my breath trying to convince you. I, however, am going to make an effort (for today anyways - and I can tell you I already failed at least once) to use more descriptive and appropriate words in place of "love" so that when I do use it it means that much more.
I also thought about writing all the wonderful things I particularly ENJOY (note more descriptive word) about my man. Or maybe a cute or thoughtful poem about/to him (yes I realize that is a fragment, deal with it). But then I decided I'd rather not put something personal about the two of us out there for the whole world to see.
So now this post is pretty much about nothing at all and everything all at once. It's about as shallow as the holiday itself. Ask wikipedia. It will tell you that little is known about Saint Valentine. There was something about marrying Christian couples and helping them in other ways which was illegal at the time. But other than that it's a bunch of blah blah blah we don't know much blah blah blah.
So anyways... listen to hallmark and do something that makes your special someone feel extra special today. Listen to God and love your enemy as yourself. Listen to me and don't take those you love for granted.
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*He did actually get me a thoughtful gift. I suppose I can put up with it occasionally. Especially when it's not as pointless and cut flowers.
**I know he's not perfect. But he's as "perfect" for me as I can imagine.
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