Happy Valentine's Day

Love to me is quite a few things on its face it's simply the feelings you have toward a special someone.  But it implies so many other things and among them for me is a sense of completion.  People desire other people and their company.  I think people also desire intimacy and a bond with another.  Maybe they don't but I can assure you that I do.  And Dana has given me that, and so much more.  She's my better half and she completes me and gives me a sense of belonging that I have long been searching for.  And on top of that it's no fun to dance alone.

Yet another thing love is to me is how Dana makes me feel about myself.  I've never felt so good about myself.  And more importantly I've never felt so good inside.  I can look at myself now and see something of worth.  It might not be so good that it's a reflection of someone else, but Dana brings that out in me.  She shows me things in myself that I never tapped into before and makes me feel things deeper and more profoundly than I ever thought I could.  And for that I am eternally grateful. 

I guess what I'm trying to get at is that love is a chance we get only now and then and it can happen at any time.  And those of us who possess it are the luckiest people in the world for a variety of reasons.  I know I'm awful lucky, but like too many people I think I take that for granted.  And then I try to make up for it on special days.  I guess if I come away with anything and if I could teach a lesson with my story it would be everyday is special.  Never forget how lucky you are and try as best you can to tell that someone special that you know just how lucky you are.  And tell them you love them and that they're special.  However you do that is up to you be it a card, a webpage, a rose every now and then, or just a kind word when it's not needed.  The important thing is it has to be done.  I can't imagine my life without Dana and I don't want to.  I don't think anyone does, and part of being in love is finding the courage to say in words what the heart feels, cause it's healthy and beneficial.  And the best reason is that the person whom you feel so powerfully for deserves to know these things.  They should never have a hint of doubt and they should always know they are the greatest treasures in the world.  Cause I know for me Dana is my treasure and everything which I hold dear.  And I think she ought to know that and even in that case be told that cause she deserves it not just today but always.  So this is for her, and in the process it's for everyone who is or will be in love.  Cause my feelings and my story happens all over in one form or another and I think this is how love works.