My feelings about Valentine’s Day are always mixed as I have never been in a relationship during this time of year, must be the cold weather of something. Refusing to send the day at home and needing a break from my normal activities (aka labwork), I went for a hike up in the Middlesex Fells. On the way there were about as many couples as you would expect to see on at Saturday afternoon, but there certainly were more bunches of flowers floating about.
It is nice to have a holiday dedicated to love of another person, but really should there be a special day? If the relationship is true should not every day be one of appreciation of the other? Maybe I am just a romantic and a cynic. It should not be that it is expected that the man will go all out for his woman just on Valentines Day. It’s the daily gestures between the two people that really matter. Why do people get all hyped up over one day? I at least hope that the same people whole anniversaries as dear.
For myself I remain with a combined feeling of questioning and a touch of melancholy. Perhaps a bit of bitterness and jealousy as well. Guess I’m only human.
