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A Detached Valentine Wish
You are enough
The internet is awash with wishes of love today. Hearts and chocolate and flowers and other things that are supposed to symbolize our love for someone. And you know what? If that works for you and your partner, that’s great. But ultimately, it doesn’t matter. None of it does. Valentine’s day is another holiday invented by modern society to enslave us to yet one more thing to pressure us into buying things. If you’re only doing something because society has pressured you into it, does it really mean anything?
You don’t need any of that. The love you seek is already inside you. This applies to anyone that’s married, single, young, old, lonely, desperate, happy, sad, dating or not. None of it matters except for your ability to perceive the love that is already present.
We have this terrible tendency in modern society to look everywhere — literally everywhere — for things we think we want and need. Everywhere, that is, except where we need to look: inside our own hearts. We must learn to tap into it. We must learn to look around us and notice the small things. To be thankful for the air we breathe and the light we see. The light that is inside us all.
This isn’t some self-help listicle — you guys know me better than that. All three of you who read this, anyway. But, aside from some amusing self-deprecating humor…
