Valentines Special

February 14, 2014. Valentine's Day. Heart's Day. Lovers Day.

Simply a Day of Showing Love to those whom you love.

When I was a kid Valentine's Day was a day solely for the two lovers that I only come to know - My parents. I would make special Valentine cards and make gifts for them. I even made them a sort of Valentine's surprise party before. The classrooms in schools would be decorated with hearts and red would always be the color of the day.

When I ENTERED high school the meaning of Valentine's Day had quite a different meaning. As most high school students would say "It's a day for lovers" It was quite a preconceived judgment that Valentine's Day was only for those who had special someones.

    

On my first two years in Highschool, I admit I do not remember much about my Valentine's Day. However when i was in third year, I was surprised to Receive simple gifts from my dear classmates. It really made ​​me guilty that I had not PREPARED something for them. Then I opened my mind to the thought that Valentine's Day is after all not just a day for my Parents, not just for two love birds, but it is a day that Should Spent be with people that you have Shown THEIR love and the people who you have shared yours too.

The phenomenon of attaching little love locks to the parapets of the Pont des Arts bridge across the River Seine capital's really interested me. An act of promise and a symbol of commitment, that is what a love lock is. Many people would even travel a thousand miles just to have THEIR little padlocks engraved with initials in them be placed in that bride in Paris, so They can pledge THEIR love in the hope that it shall last forever. locking However that love locked in the bridge is just half of the meaning of it, Because after pledging your promise, promising a secret, or exchanging your vows, you have to throw the key in the Seine river and watch it slowly disappear in the depths of the water, as a symbol of that unbreakable promise.

Maybe someday I'm gonna find that person that I can have a love lock with. Who knows I'm still a 16 year old girl with great ambitions and I know I have a long way to go. Love has its ways. Happy Valentine's Day to everyone! 

How I spent my Valentine's Day? Well I can say that it was one amazing day ...

I finally had the time to make, find and prepare Valentine's gifts for my classmates and most especially for my best friends. 

What made me really proud of our class was that we gave simple but meaningful gifts to all our teachers. Seeing the joy in THEIR eyes and the smiles in THEIR faces, that was enough to make my day. Receiving love becomes more meaningful when in time you learn to share it too.

I Received quite a number of gifts and chocolates. I look into the not just the presents but rather on the value this person has to me.

Every gift given had a symbol of love in it. Love comes in different forms. Young love. Love of Forgiveness. Love of Acceptance. Love of a Mother. Love of bestfriends. Teenage Love. Love evidently is the closest thing  we have to MAGIC.