It's a week now until Valentine's Day and you have those special arrangements sorted for that special someone, right? No? Why is that? Can't you be bothered, or do you not have any ideas? Or, like me, don't you have that 'someone'?
I have plans. That's right. Okay, admittedly they do involve me spending the night bashing through some jazz standards on a crummy community hall piano for a bunch of elderly women, but they are plans none the less.
If you were reading this hoping that I might be able to give some good advice, you're probably going to be disappointed. See, I know the theory behind relationships and dating, but not how to put it into practice. I'm like a painter who knows that blue and yellow mix to make green but, whenever I actually try to make that green, I can never get the perfect green.
Things is, you shouldn't really need to go out and impress the person you're with with fancy meals and flowers and chocolates. They should be impressed by who you are... and they are impressed. I was talking to a friend recently who was saying that they don't think the person they are with was impressed enough by them, that they weren't enough for this person. This person was wrong. I know the person they are with extremely well and could see that this person meant everything to them. You don't need fancy flowers, cards or meals... just three simple words that have a lot of meaning and power to them.
I have played for a number of church weddings at my church, and the priest usually mentioned the same phrase every time:
"Tell the person that you love that you love them at least once a day"
It's not profound, witty or even moral based. It's just simple and easy to do. That is a phrase that I live by, and we should all live by. It doesn't matter who that person is, just tell them. It doesn't take long to say those three words, eight letters, five vowels, three consonants... It doesn't need to be that 'special someone' either. Tell your mum, your dad, siblings, friends...
I love you
Stay Strong
Michael
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