Valentines

Valentine's day is just hours away....

Red fills the air and shops wrap gift bouquets for lovers......

I think its too much pressure, especially when love is the last thing you are feeling.....

This reminds me of valentines when i was in first year at moi university and everyone was or seemed or pretended to be in love.

Chocolates made their rounds to every one's room save mine. I ended up stealing Jane's cadbury's milk bars displayed on her reading table and dissapeared before she came back from her date.....picture this i have gone to visit a sister soul to while away the lonely supposedly "love evening" and whilst there i find her date came showered her with chocolates and whisked her away...........

looking back, i really think its a lot of pressure, and i can almost bet there are so many people who dread the love day as it is a reminder of their lonely status....

yet love lingers around us in many subtle ways, if we keenly observe we will see it sipping into our lives through caring friends and family who might not splash red and lush gifts but in caring words and actions love us.

I hope i can be part of the friends and family that love you in myriad ways, expressed and lived out. And am happy knowing that love is here with me.Valentines or not

Happy valentines.

G