“What are you doing for valentine?”
Ever since I reached my adolescent years, I laugh every time I’m asked this question. After all, it is said that it takes two to tango and since valentine is supposed to be that ‘special’ time when you do something ‘special’ for your lover, I guess I don’t fit into that valentine category.

As a result of the non-existent love life *my imaginary marriage with Banky-W doesn’t count!*, I have taken to answering that question in different creative ways every year. This year, my answer is “Watching paint dry!” It’s not a bad plan for a valentine day considering that there is no better way to announce my ‘singleness’ to the whole world other than to go to a valentine party alone and sit in between all the lovey-dovey couples!  Na wetin I dey find there?

Now, don’t get me wrong. I am a sucker for love! I am one of those girls who just love to fall in love! Thing is, I have gotten to that stage where I am done kissing all the frogs of life while waiting for one to turn into a prince! No! Now, I have decided to put a padlock around my mouth, throw away the keys into Elegushi beach while waiting for my real prince to arrive and melt away the padlock with his kiss of love! Call me crazy, Love is crazy!

In my life’s journey to love, I have discovered that before I can love that special person, I must first love me. So, my newest plan is simple: fall in love with me! Yea! I’m going to fall in love with that pretty girl I see in the mirror. I’ll fall in love with her 5’4 inches self *even though she wishes she was a bit taller*. I’ll fall in love with her successes and her failures, her beliefs and her ideologies, her habits and her crazy ass attitudes! In totality, I’m falling in love with me! Call it narcissistic if you wanna cause this is the real shit!

A friend of mine once said, that in a bid to understand life, people pull their lives apart by trying to segment the various part of their lives. They put a divide between their sexuality and their spirituality, between their jobs and their personality and so on, not knowing that the binding ingredient is Love. Love brings the whole ‘you’ together!

So, yes! While I stick to my plan of watching paint dry this valentine, I’ll be loving me, every second and every minute from now and beyond!!

Written For Dr Foy
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Happy Valentine Peeps!!

XoXo..
Iamthedemigoddess!!