Valentine’s Day
A Celebration of the Heart
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By Hollie Sessoms
It’s kind of awkward writing about Valentine’s Day when you’re in your forties.
It seems the sort of holiday to be relegated to candy hearts and boxes of
impersonal notes to hand out helter-skelter in a classroom full of unruly kids
hopped up on cupcakes with too-sweet icing. It seems the sort of holiday rife
with overly sentimental clichéd cards, stuffed teddy bears, and animatronic
hearts singing Baby I Need Your Loving. But a part of me still appreciates it.
And no, not just for the chocolate and wine, though they certainly help.
It’s nice to be reminded to love and be loved. When it comes down to it,
Valentine’s Day is a celebration of the heart—the source of our greatest
knowing. There’s nothing trite or overdone or commercial about that. Just
thinking about the heart makes my breathing slow, my mind calm, my eyes
open to see the beauty of the world around me. The heart and not the brain is
what I most trust to guide me in the right direction in life.
But maybe you’re sick of all this lovey-dovey stuff that hounds you all through
the month of February. Maybe your heart’s broken this Valentine’s Day. There is
beauty even in this. The heart grows by breaking, if you let it. Breaking makes
a heart stronger, more knowing of itself and its desires than before. Let your
heart break, let the beauty in.
Maybe you’re in a stagnant relationship that seems dull and lifeless. Maybe
you see those new couples out there kissing, whispering sweet nothings,
holding hands even! And you think to yourself: When was the last time anyone
held my hand? Valentine’s Day is a good day for this too. For the reminder that
relationships are always morphing and changing, finding something new and
exciting and then forgetting and settling into routine. The challenge is to keep
finding the love you know is there, keep looking for it. As one of the wise sages
of our time, Carly Simon, once said: It’s Coming Around Again.
So make your pancakes into hearts, eat all the chocolates (even the gross
gooey cherry ones), pop open another bottle of champagne, and remember the
best day to show someone you love them is not Christmas or Easter or even
Valentine’s Day, but today.
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