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
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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