Can We Celebrate Valentine’s Day As A Single?
Note For Loving Ourselves
February is the month of love.
People will celebrate 14th February for Valentine’s Day with their partner, spouse, or whatever terms that symbolized a pair of people who are bonded by a love relationship.
In the past time, Valentine’s Day is exclusively celebrated by a couple. It excluded the people who are still single. From the other’s perspective, people who try to celebrate Valentine’s Day by themself are considered sort of depressing stuff.
But what people forget is love is not only the expression of appreciation or attachment from one people to another, but it also applies to us to ourselves as well. That’s why nowadays, there is a term called “Self Love”.
But recently, Valentine’s Day also empowers single to love themself. In several countries, through marketing shifting effort, they give promotion offer to a single person. It can be a form of a discount on several kinds of stuff like foods, clothes, and others.
Regardless of their marketing objective to fulfill their business, the message here is to appreciate ourselves. One of the forms of self-love is appreciating ourselves. In some cases, it’s easy to relish someone but we may be too harsh to ourselves.
Nowadays, we can see people celebrate Valentine alone by eating their favorite food, watching their adored movies, or buying stuff that fulfills their happiness.
Another component during Valentine’s Day is dating. It sounds weird if you’re dating yourself.
But have we ask the objective of dating itself?
Besides having fun and romantic, dating has the objective to know each other in the first place.
But do we even know ourselves?
It sounds not fun and not romantic at all but we may substitute the common dating to have self-reflection to know about ourselves better. Sometimes we define ourselves based on people's expectations or the experience that we encountered in the past.
Self-reflection allows us to dig more about ourselves, to make peace with ourselves, to re-define ourselves, and remove any judgment and stigma from other people.
The final objective of this is to find a happier version of yourself. By giving more happiness to yourself, means you grow more love and appreciation for yourself.
So is it wrong for a single to celebrate Valentine?
No, it’s nothing wrong with that. Take this moment to cherish and know better about yourself.
