For the cynics.

There are a lot of cynics around Valentine’s Day. They try to change the name to S.A.D. (Single’s Awareness Day) or Chocolate Lover’s Day. This year you could just call it Tuesday. But for all the people who hate Valentine’s Day because it seems that all it does is magnify their loneliness, I think you need to give it a second chance.

Someone told me the other day that they thought love made things worse. It made life hurt. It made life hard. I have to disagree. Sometimes love is broken and that is when it hurts. But it is not love in itself that makes our hearts ache. It hurts to see something die that we thought was good and beautiful.

Because I think we all truly love love. It’s the ache of broken love that we don’t like. Real love is good and beautiful and should be celebrated.

So this one goes out to the ones I love…

To all the ones who are in love and all the ones who dream of being in love…

Happy Valentine’s Day!