To be loved
14 Feb 2009 12:47 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
wayfaringwordhackI love. I am loved.
That is the only thing of note this Valentine's Day. No paper cards, no hothouse flowers, no store-bought chocolate to purchase and give. No fancy jewelry and expensive dinners out. No LJ virtual prezzies.
I shall give homemade and heartfelt words instead: "I love you." The same as I do everyday.
And that's enough for my loves and me.
Gestures are nice. When they are spontaneous. I think something is wrong if you have to wait for a yearly holiday to express love and romance.
In my opinion.
However! I do like holidays and traditions and like to see them perpetuated. I just wish that the commercial, you-better-out-do-everyone-else-to-prove-you're-just-as-if-not-MORE-romantic-than-the-next-guy (because, let's face it, the financial, "romantic" burden usually falls on the men if it's Valentine's Day we're talking about) aspect of them didn't loom so large. Or didn't loom at all.
That is the only thing of note this Valentine's Day. No paper cards, no hothouse flowers, no store-bought chocolate to purchase and give. No fancy jewelry and expensive dinners out. No LJ virtual prezzies.
I shall give homemade and heartfelt words instead: "I love you." The same as I do everyday.
And that's enough for my loves and me.
Gestures are nice. When they are spontaneous. I think something is wrong if you have to wait for a yearly holiday to express love and romance.
In my opinion.
However! I do like holidays and traditions and like to see them perpetuated. I just wish that the commercial, you-better-out-do-everyone-else-to-prove-you're-just-as-if-not-MORE-romantic-than-the-next-guy (because, let's face it, the financial, "romantic" burden usually falls on the men if it's Valentine's Day we're talking about) aspect of them didn't loom so large. Or didn't loom at all.
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Date: 14 Feb 2009 04:52 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 15 Feb 2009 05:04 am (UTC)Did you get all romantic with your man and watch a Valentinesque game of red vs white?
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Date: 15 Feb 2009 04:53 pm (UTC)Yes :) We couldn't really celebrate the result but we opened a bottle of pink bubbly anyway!
But before you start thinking that we've been carried away by the St Valentine's Day hype, I should mention that it was Cava and we've had it in the 'fridge since Christmas.
It was still good, though :D
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Date: 16 Feb 2009 08:26 am (UTC)Do you think Wales is going to go undefeated again this year? Ireland might give them a run for their money...
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Date: 14 Feb 2009 08:16 pm (UTC)no subject
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Date: 15 Feb 2009 08:36 pm (UTC)