*insert cliche title about love*
Valentine's Day. It evokes some emotion in you. Regardless of what that emotion is, there is some emotion. Some will feel happy and giddy. Some will feel cynical or apathetic or angry or lonely or one of many other countless emotions. But everyone feels something. The holiday provokes us to feel. Which is a little bit sad because love (the premise behind the holiday) is not actually a feeling, but an action and a choice. Dont get me wrong. I like feelings. But. But perhaps we have the celebration of the holiday wrong. As I have been thinking about this holiday as it approached, I have had a wide range of emotions. Excitement at having my first Valentine's Day with my own Valentine. A bit of anxiousness about what to give. And a lot of contemplation about the holiday as a whole. What I have been drawn back to over and over again as I have thought about it is that we don't really understand love. We think that we do, but we really don't. So I'm drawn back to the qu