The Kind Of Love You Ought to Feel on this Valentine’s Day

Love is action, not a word. Love ought to be expressed and not withheld. Love helps. Love heals. Love gives. Love receives. Love can open the tightest hearts

Valentine’s day was carved specifically to celebrate Saint Valentine, a martyr who was said to have done a lot of good things while imprisoned including healing a sick child.

The manner at which the millennials celebrate Valentine’s day is quite interesting. We actually use the day as an opportunity to do something nice rather than as a reminder of something we should already be practicing every day — love.

Love is the greatest gift God spoke about in the Bible and such a gift shouldn’t be limited to a one-day annual ritual but instead constantly practiced.

The kind of love Valentine’s day should remind you of is the kind you ought to have for yourself, for your spouse, family and for others (in the form of affection).

No one can teach you how to love yourself if you aren’t ready for it.

But to if you’re ready to love yourself, it means accepting yourself the way you are; not by your father’s standard, not your boss’s measures. It means mindfully acknowledging your strengths and weaknesses and still choosing you every day.

When you’re assured of your self-love, it becomes less tedious to love someone else. You begin to open up to the chances of even loving strangers that you meet instantly and not feeling odd about it — because you know the feeling, therefore, it’s not. It’s noteworthy, however, that the people and things you love are bound to change therefore don’t be hard on yourself when such changes occur.

Have a steady love for yourself and one another and not a Valentine-love only.

Love frees the mind and allows the body to showcase it however it so desires and that’s where you witness people go above and beyond to express their love.

Love is an action, not a word. Love ought to be expressed and not withheld. Love helps. Love heals. Love gives. Love receives. Love can open the tightest hearts.

This Valentine’s day is yet another day to remind us all of the importance of love and inculcate all its characteristics which are bound to serve us well as we already served by so-doing.

Let love flow in your heart and allow it emanate to other people and areas and hence, the world at large.

Make your kind of love a legacy.