Can I be my Valentine?

Valentine’s day is just around the corner and my Facebook profile is already flooded with posts like “14 places to visit with your loved one on this Valentine’s day…” , “25 gifts that you can give to your boyfriend/girlfriend…” and many more which have amazing ideas for V-Day celebration! The way we celebrate this day of love makes me wonder why don’t we have a similar day for ourselves? A day on which you can express the love for your own self with such alacrity!

Life will always give you enough challenges but honestly you can never be so busy to not have time for yourself. You can always try to schedule your things and take out sometime to enjoy all those simple pleasures which are usually taken for granted.

Now, ideally we should give ourselves some time everyday but if that’s not possible then atleast celebrate something like a Valentine’s day with yourself once in a while; when you can pamper yourself, retrospect, go through old memories and most importantly remind yourself how amazing you are! If things are not going great right now then this will give you the much needed dose of optimism and positivity.

Besides this ubiquitous complain of being too busy, another factor why we forget to love ourselves is that we try to compensate it with the love we get from the other person. By this time, many have already found the love of their lives and I will never deny that it’s an amazing feeling to grow with that person but in all of this don’t forget to grow as an individual. A beautiful relationship is the one where both can “grow individually, together”!

As we say, love is a beautiful feeling so let’s reserve a part of it for our own self! Life would be so meaningful once you fall in love with yourself before you love anyone else.

Love with your whole heart but don’t forget to say “Happy Valentine’s Day ” to yourself once in a while! ;)

-Nitya Srivastava :)