Valentine's Day

Today is Valentine's Day, the day when you are supposed to be sweet and romantic to, and with, your significant other, buy each other gifts, and generally be all mushy. I have never been big on the holiday. It's not that I dislike it, but I do not love it. Honestly, I do not understand the holiday. Why have one day where you show your love for your significant other? Should we not be doing that every day?

Yet, I know we don't do that every day. I certainly do not. Other things get in the way: work, family, school, and life in general. But I try to, and, in my opinion, that is what counts. That you try, every day, to show your love for that special person in your life; not that you do it for one day out of the year and do not attempt it again until the next year.*

I do not need my boyfriend to buy me candy, roses, chocolates, stuffed bears or other assorted animals to know that he loves me or is thinking about me. I know that he is, and I know this because of the other ways he shows it-- the texts in the morning saying "Boker tov" (good morning), the unexpected beautiful gifts he sends me (not in honor of Valentine's Day), his constant encouragement and not allowing me to give up, his willingness to spend over an hour on the phone with me helping me with my internet problem, his worrying about my worrying about things, and other things. I look at the little things he does. For me, while the big things are nice, it's the little things that count the most.

However, just because I am not crazy about Valentine's Day, does not mean I don't wish all of you one. Happy Valentine's Day!

*I'm not saying that is what people do, just that I sometimes think of Valentine's Day like that.