Valentine's Day

Valentine’s Day . . . A day for sweethearts.

Valentine’s day at the high school is always so exciting.  It is fun to watch as students carry around the gifts from their “sweethearts.”  I’m always amazed at how much money is spent on this day.  As I look at these students and think about how much they think they’re in love.  I want to tell them that what they’re feeling is fun but infatuation, not true love.

True love comes from spending a life together.  It’s hard work and play.  It’s struggling with jobs and then careers, it’s worrying and fretting over children.  It’s coming together on how you want to raise them and discipline them.  It’s learning to put the needs and desires of your mate ahead of your own.  Love is this and so much more.  It’s wondering what would I ever do without him?  It’s wanting what is best for him and being angry beyond measure when someone hurts him.  It’s laughing at his jokes and thinking he is the sexiest man alive.    It’s putting up with him constantly being busy and gone, but realizing that he loves you anyway.  Love is wanting to spend eternity with him. 

Happy Valentine’s Day, Eti.  I love you!

I have shared some valentine’s quotes.

Life has taught us that love does not consist in gazing at each other but in looking outward together in the same direction.    Antoine De Saint-Exupery

Age does not protect you from love. But love, to some extent, protects you from age.  Anais Nin

From quiet homes and first beginning, Out to the undiscovered ends, There's nothing worth the wear of winning, But laughter and the love of friends.   Hilaire Belloc

All you need is love. But a little chocolate now and then doesn't hurt.  Charles M. Schulz

Life is the flower for which love is the honey.     Victor Hugo