A: Is for the Art of Love

The art of love is an age-old story. Tomorrow is Valentine’s Day and most of my unattached friends ponder in why they are not in relationships. A week ago, I came upon this article on CNN and the reason became clear. We live in a disposable society where we are always on the look for the next best thing instead being the best in the relationship we have. Archaeologists unearthed two skeletons from the Neolithic period locked in a tender embrace. They were buried outside Mantua, just 25 miles south of Verona, the city where Shakespeare set "Romeo and Juliet." The find has "more of an emotional than a scientific value." But it does highlight the relationship people have with each other. In this case timeless.

Two of my favorite movies demonstrate this. Wuthering Heights and The Ghost and Ms Muir both are about making relationships work and the eternity of that love. I believe in that. Unfortunately I am in a society where we judge not on the depth of soul but on our age and beauty of our skin. Depth has nothing to do with it unless it's depth of pocket, and we wonder why the divorce rates are so high. Relationships are work even in the most chemistry induced. Pheromones recharge, take a break and we wonder where did the love go? It was never there it was chemical high.

Does love exists and if so what is it? We are so brainwashed into thinking we must be everything to everybody, that if we are not in a relationship we are not whole? I would rather love unconditionally from afar than be in a relationship just for the sake of a body.

Saint Valentine was a knight who was brought to prison where he prayed to God. He prayed for light to illuminate the house of the wise that they might know God. He prayed for his blind daughter that she might hear and see. He then committed himself to God and God heard his prayers. The entire house became believers, his daughter cured and his neck saved. May this story inspire you to give this Valentine’s Day from the heart unconditionally as this man whose name has become revered and make that a F.A.C.T.