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Valentine’s Day (Singletine’s Day)

I've decided to rename Valentine's Day to Singletine's Day.  I feel like it's a cooler name.  Plus... According to my calculations (calculations not official calculations) more people are probably single than with someone they love.  Even some people that are "with someone" probably aren't all snuggly wuggly I wuv you type of in love with the person they are with.  Theoretically one might argue in their hearts they really are single.

So what are my plans for Singletine's Day?  Hmmm... I plan to meet the love of my life.  I'll just randomly be out picking out a nice bottle of Cabernet Sauvignon (true story: I always end up Googling Cabernet Sauvignon to get the spelling right), or perhaps picking up some chocolate at the grocery store and we'll reach for the same package of chocolate while standing next to one another trying to pick one out.  For those of you that don't know, chocolate helps during the winter to keep your mood elevated.  Something about the lack of sun can actually make you feel slightly sad... but chocolate has some kind of counter balance.

Ok, so I'm probably not going to meet he love of my life picking out red wine and chocolate.  In all honesty, I don't think I have a love of my life.  So far there's only been one girl on this planet that... I don't know... She just... was different from all the rest.  She made my heart beat slightly faster... Honestly... It was strange.  Any and all contact in any way shape or form I ever had with her made my heart gush.  Even just thinking about her.  Even when she sent me an email or two saying... how DEFINITELY not interested she was anymore... That still made my heart do doubles.  She's definitely one of my favorite people that I've linked up life timeline/pathways with.  I mean, obviously there will be more people that I'll continue to meet as I move through life.  There's always someone new it seems.  I mean I met two new people today that I'd never met in my entire life ever.

Isn't that strange?  I've been on this planet 33 years and that was the first time I'd ever met either of these two people.  Maybe there's hope for having a magic love on a future Valentine's Day yet.  Who knows?

Isn't it also strange how some people, like the two new people I met today... It's just so bland.  Like, oh hi... and a handshake.  But then... every once in a while (or in the case of that one girl, once in a lifetime so far it seems)...

You walk up to them meeting them for the first time... Or you hear their voice for the first time ever... And there's just something different.  Like the whole world changes slightly.  And you look around you like... "Wait... Did you notice that?  Everything is... Different now.  What is happening?"

And they just look at you and think you're slightly crazy.  But, that's kind of the effect that love has... It makes you do crazy things.

Love though.  Sometimes I wonder about it.  The thing is...  it definitely makes you do things you wouldn't normally do.  That's for sure.  Like I could make ANY statement.  I could say... I'll never do insert thing here:

Enter... Girl.  "Hi.  Would you mind doing that one thing for me that you said you'd never do?"

Me: "Yes.  Absolutely."

That's the power of love.  It's a dangerous thing.  Yet a curious thing too.

This means, supposing that I meet another girl with the same spell like power that previous one had...

Or that another one does exist that can take control of my emotions like she could... At any moment in my life going forward, any of the next people I meet... Could be... Love.  Or at least a girl that could grab my heart and thoughts and hold them in the palm of her hand and mold them like clay.  Shaping them as she pleased.  Or like dough.  Cookie dough.  Just taking my heart and playing baker with it.

Well... Until the day that I suddenly cross paths with this mystery woman.  I'll be at home alone playing my guitar eating chocolate and drinking red wine.  And speaking of cookies and dough and molding things... maybe I'll get some heart shaped cookies and bake them.  So a happy Valentine's Day to all the people lucky enough to have someone molding their little hearts and a happy Singletine's Day to those of us at home alone wondering, waiting, hoping, wishing, while we mold dough into the shape of hearts and then snap them in half after we cook them and then chew on the bits and pieces of our lonely hearts.