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Today, you are on your own. It's going to be just you and it's going to be just fine.
I hope you wake up glowing and blooming; able to see light and search it even in places dark and hard to find; and able to spread smiles and sunshine in hallways you pass by. I hope your morning be filled with sheer bliss and perfect joy and that it stretches until sundown and the hours after. I hope you eat one of your best lunches and share that absolute time with people who understand that feeling a bit lonely today is completely okay. But don't dwell much about it; because even if there are sudden moments you are most likely to feel it, you are really entirely not alone. And deep in your heart, you know and feel that. I hope you celebrate today with people whose friendship means the world to you; maybe over a great movie; or a spontaneous ice cream date; or maybe over a Japanese dinner splurge you truly deserve. I hope you have a long, meaningful day— the kind where you go home late and feel the good kind of separation anxiety from your most special people right after parting ways. I hope you have time to steal a few pictures and a couple boomerangs just to remember this day. I hope you don't cry yourself to sleep tonight because you have no flowers and chocolates, or a sweet surprise to cap-off the day. But I hope that if you are in tears as you close your eyes before you hit the hay, it is because of a thanksgiving prayer for having people who have held your hand since day one and have never let go of it through all of the highs and lows. I hope you remember today as a celebration of the strong, independent, powerful, and capable woman that you are. Because you truly are. And I really hope you feel it in ways more than one especially today.
I do hope you never give up on love, even if the haul gets tiring. I hope you never forget the days you felt warm and bright and hopeful because of an untimely love that once meant everything to you; and that you never stop wishing you experience it again someday on the right time with the right one. You will feel it again; but until then, love yourself more dearly. I hope that from everything else that will happen from this day forward, you learn to love, care, support, and appreciate yourself more than ever.
Happy Valentine's Day, Self!
(And also to all of you single women reading this! We got this. We always do.)
