HAPPY HAPPY VALENTINES' DAY!

♥ Happy Valentines' Day everybody! ♥

Виталя!

LOOK UP, LET THE SUN SHINE ON YOU!

ВСЁ БУДЕТ ХОРОШО!

P.S.

It's now 18:50 and I just got done eating dinner. I went for a nice slow jog too so I'm feeling perfectly high and awesome.

I spent this morning being crazy and high on ice cream- listening to other people's sob stories (because obviously the people with no sob stories are out enjoying their day with their loved ones).

And as soon as I got high enough on ice cream to jump around dancing to Nsync, Backstreet Boys and Britney Spears songs from back in the day, I found this song "Sugar Rush" by Ateens that I used to sing (actually, more like yell) along with.

Listening to this song now, seven years later, returned me to a different state of mind. I was thrown back to a time when love was such a simple concept.

Back then there weren't so many complications in the search for the one. Yet today I am like a scared little squirrel, bolting at any sign of a possibility. Afraid to be hurt, not wanting to take any chances... And to be honest, I wish I were this way since the beginning.

I wish I had valued myself from the start, to have the discernment and to know what's real and what's not.

Some people may think that vigorous dating can provide some very useful experience into narrowing your search for your second half, and I can't disagree. But what I do know is that no matter who you date or how many people you date, love will always be the same.

You could be with a hundred other men or women throughout your lifetime, but at the end of the day, the essence of what we seek in a partner doesn't really change.

We want to feel cherished, loved, respected and a deeper connection with another human being that cannot be shared with anyone else besides the two of you.

It is an extreme mutual attraction; that crazy spark we all know exists, which some of us have yet to experience with another person.

I was listening to radio online last night and they were talking about how sexified our culture has become after the sexual revolution of the 70s. Then this man shared a story about how when he was in college in the 70s, he lived in the first co-ed dorms and shared a room with four other beautiful women. He talked about how tempted he was every single day since sex was culturally accepted as a casual thing as opposed to the traditional ways of thinking before. He of course, indulged in sex as everyone else around him was doing- and they all seemed happy. But he shared this one incident that changed his whole life and his view about sex and love. I forget how he ended up in this place, but it was a little farm in the middle of nowhere. A typical Midwestern American farm with white furniture and hillbilly looking tenants- a man, his wife and two kids. But as he went into the house (for I forget what reason) and saw the man and his wife glance at each other, something struck him about the way they looked in each others' eyes. He recognised the spark and that smile they shared, as though they held something between them that goes beyond what he ever felt before. And it was that one look between them that made him realise that love existed. A true love that could not wane despite years gone by and the youthful charms that faded into memory.

To me, I don't think dating can bring you that much closer or further to that special someone.

I think socialising is important, but dating is a whole different matter- especially if you take things further than a goodnight kiss.

The biggest mistake you can make in your love life is to settle for something less than that breathtaking feeling all for the sake of chasing away loneliness.

Bad bad bad decision guys!

Wait it out. You know who you are. I admire you so much and think about your strength all the time. So please don't ever settle! There is somebody out there just waiting to sweep you off your feet. It may be tomorrow, it may be in a few decades... But don't shortchange yourself.

True love exists!

I promise you this! The kind that never fails- the kind that you watch in movies and korean dramas all the time... True love exists!

"And what is Love?", you might ask.

This is Love:

"If I speak in the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I am only a resounding gong or a clanging cymbal. If I have the gift of prophecy and can fathom all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have a faith that can move mountains, but have not love, I am nothing. If I give all I possess to the poor and surrender my body to the flames, but have not love, I gain nothing.

Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. It is not rude, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs. Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth. It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres.

Love never fails.

And now these three remain: faith, hope and love. But the greatest of these is Love."

This song reminds me of what I want to feel like when I fall in love again (I'm already in love- with Him).

Light, carefree, so full of sweet joy and overflowing with...

You guessed it.

L.O.V.E.

I know. I know... Such a mushy mushy post. You know you love it!