Celebrating love no matter your love combo. Picture: iStock If you were a public relations professional Valentine’s Day may be a poser. How do you couch it in the 21stcentury without being all about gifts, flowers, and restaurant dinners for two?
Because these days, not everyone is chasing romance. Instead, people are celebrating love as a concept. And that could mean many different things to different people.
Some choose to express this with family, friends, friends with benefits or even themselves. As the world changes, particularly post-pandemic, so too has love’s universe been shaped by identity and relationship dynamics that were well outside anyone’s frame of reference as little as a decade ago. These days, people are customising Valentine’s Day like they would, say, a phone’s set of apps.
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Flowers are a standard, non-negotiable component of romance. However, couples these days also use Valentine’s Day to tell their own stories. First date revisits rank at the top of the list; doing the same that you did when first meeting.
A reenactment of sorts. This could mean cooking dinner together, creating a time capsule of pictures and moments together, a long walk or a picnic. It’s about creating a moment and a together-experience rather than following up the flowers with a staple social expectation.
If you’re single, it does not have to mean tissues and tears on Valentine’s Day. Instead, self-love is as important these days as coupling up on loveday is. Take a trip, go on an adventure by yourself, visit an art gallery or go and feed the ducks at the lock park’s pond for some time-out. Whatever it is, doing you and celebrating you on Valentine’s Day, a measure of self-love can only enhance your own well-being.
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