Single Awareness Day

So way back in my college days, this cynic coined the phrase “Single Awareness Day”. This phrase quickly took off as an alternate for Valentine’s Day. One of my dear pledge sisters and I still exchange Single Awareness Day cards and goodies.

Now don’t make the mistake of thinking that I celebrate the anti-Valentine’s Day by wearing black and totally “gothing out”. As much as I profess to be a cynic…there is a small part of me that still enjoys the contrived celebration of love. (Which is probably why I still subject myself each season to The Bachelor but that’s a subject for another blog.) As such, I still dress up in red or pink or a combination of both in celebration of the promise of Valentine’s Days to come.

Today I awoke with the annual dread of slogging to work only to be bombed from every direction with people professing their undying love and devotion to their spouses or amores on Facebook to seeing vases and vases of flowers coming into the office and carried around by every woman in a 50 mile radius. Ahh…me…ahh…life.

Instead I was greeted with the beautiful hyacinth to the left…given to me by my “totally rad” boss. Still wallowing in the glow of newly wedded bliss…the boss bought all the ladies in the office these beautiful flowers due in no small part to his “feeling the love” in his own life. Whatever instigated the show of appreciation and adoration…I’ll take it. It’s not often a single gal gets flowers on Valentine’s Day!

So Happy Single Awareness day to all my fellow “singles” out there! May 2012 bring you unexpected passion and joy…whatever form that comes in.