VALENTINE'S DAY LOST MEMORIES
Valentine’s Day is tomorrow but it’s a day I mostly ignore, even when I was part of a couple. Sure, there were cards and roses, dinner and chocolate, but for the most part, I think the things we did to celebrate it was partly because we felt it was expected of us, not only by each other, but by the world at large. Couples were supposed to celebrate Valentine’s Day. How many of us can claim those experiences of Valentine days? How many of us want to? Okay, maybe I have had a few of those in my lifetime. A few years ago (February 2020 just before the pandemic emerged), I was writing in my journal trying to remember snippets of Valentines Days past, but, as hard as I tried, I could not recall details. Was I so oblivious to those moments? Did they not mean as much to me as they should have? I did remember the Valentine’s Day when flowers were delivered to my office by my then boyfriend (post-divorce). But I had called in sick that day. My co-workers signed for the f...
