Did you all make it through, “Single Awareness Day”? 
Ya know, Valentine’s Day. This year I just ignored the entire day — except for getting “Love” gifts for my grands.
I didn’t wear red as in previous years; I didn’t have anxiety the week before; and I gave it no notice whatsoever.
The most thought I gave to it was when walking by the security station at my work’s front door and saw all the flower deliveries. To myself I said, “huh.”
In year’s past, I’ve dreaded it. If you are in a couple, you have such a different view. Most of my friends are either married or in long-term relationships. In fact, one just received a ring and proposal for marriage. I never thought I’d be single in my 50s, but there you go.
— Namaste
The Simple Voice 
One reply on “Single Awareness Day”
I’ve never celebrated the day except in grade school where everyone had to buy “Valentine’s Day” cards for everyone, like candy for Halloween. This last time, I sent a couple of personal Valentine “sketches” to four friends. Two of them were old lovers. In a way I miss them and in another way, I feel perfectly fine being single and not having to worry about them or myself. Funny, how love, something you would think would be a natural coexistence, is so fraught with expectations.
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