What Are You Doing for Valentine’s Day?
These days, Valentine’s Day is a holiday when we celebrate love, romantic love in particular. You can’t help but think about couples snuggling, sharing gifts of chocolates, flowers, clinking glasses, in candlelight, holding hands, looking lovingly into each other’s eyes and sealing it with a kiss.
What Are You Doing for Valentine’s Day?
For some who do not have a romantic partner, love is expressed to friends and families for Valentine’s Day. There is no reason to ever sulk in solitude or love is in the air, and there is always someone or something (like a pet) to love. If not, then take yourself out to dinner and buy yourself chocolates and flowers. No reason not to love yourself and be your own valentine.
This is the perfect time to celebrate filling your heart with love and gratitude for the love you have known and shared.
If someone comes to mind of whom you are endeared that played a meaningful role in your life, send a text, a message, make a call, or send a card. Your contact does not have to mention Valentine’s Day at all, just an honest heart-felt “thank you” for their participation in your life.
If you’re not feeling the love, create the feeling by engaging in dopamine-producing activities, such as, planning a social get-together to play games, a group quilt-making event, a night out on the town with a friend, eat at a restaurant you have never eaten at before, or watch a movie with all the trimmings (popcorn, etc.).
Look for opportunities to laugh, watch a rip-roaring comedy (could be classic or contemporary) or attend a comedy club, whichever will give you the best occasion to LOL.
Turn up the music you love, sing some karaoke, and/or let yourself go as you move to the beat at whatever your ability to assimilate some form of dancing or celebratory body movement.
Here’s a good idea whether you’re in a relationship or not (if could breathe new life into an aged relationship): Do some kind of activity that you’ve never done before in some place that you’ve never been for a zinger extra dose of dopamine. Enjoy it alone, or with a partner.
If you were in a previous relationship that did not fare well, pick something that you ex- would have despised yet you would have enjoyed thoroughly, and do that!
It’s only one day a year, so allow yourself to let go and indulge in guilty pleasures that you might regularly deny yourself any other day of the year.
Surprising someone with a gift, has the same effect on the recipient as it does the giver, so gathering up the nerve to do so, will serve you well, and you could blame it on cupid if you want to. Who could blame you for that?