a shade of pink and st. V

There is something so seductive about roses, about chocolate and the meaning of love on this day. St. Valentine must have been romantic, a man who believed in true love or at least in the temporary romantic lust that occurrs on Valentine's day. Women and girls treasure this day above so many other days, not because we get gifts and taken out to a nice dinner, not because we get all the chocolate we want or because we get to buy gifts for the guys in our lives, but because on Valentine's day, love is real, love becomes an escape and a day when no matter how many time we've fallen in love or how true the love is that we have at the moment, we are in love and St. Valentine's Day is ours to treasure. So on February 14th, love is real, love is true, love is that fairy-tale romance, that white knight, that day of rose petals and bubble baths, hearts and candy and chocolate and maybe a little surprise gift in there too. St. Valentine sure must have been an interesting person, a man who is the namesake of the "Hallmark" holiday, of lighting candles and scattering rose petals, of rose bouquets and chocolates. There is something so seductive about roses and chocolate, two such ordinary and unplanned things, but ever so beautiful. There is so much meaning in Valentine's Day, because for 24 hours, love seems invincible, unstoppable and unplanned, it seems romanticized, and covered in a shade of pink that every girl wants to last forever...