I have always either sent cards, left messages or written letters to the wonderful people in my life on this day. I stopped after 9/11 because it was hard to love anything or anyone, including myself, after so much loss. But I am luckier than most, because I got to tell and show my friends, how much I really loved them while they were alive. I also had many opportunities where I got to hear/see from them, how much they loved me back.

On the morning of 9/11 a work colleague who was trapped in the towers called me (because she couldn’t get through to her family) and asked that I call her mother and her husband to tell what she never got to say because she was self-conscious, that she loved them. That stunned me. It still does. It stuns me to think that these people would finally learn that she loved them through a stranger. Those 3 words can make such a huge impact and difference in another person’s life. It did in that mother’s life, for her daughter had never said it to her. Why do we miss opportunities like this (even silly ones like Valentines Day) to tell the people that matter most to us, how much they are loved and what they mean to us. It doesn’t take elaborate planning, it doesn’t take gifts, it only takes a moment of looking into someone’s eyes or writing words in either a text message or a yellow sticky note and putting it inside the fridge, for them to know that they matter and they have a place in your heart. The best test is to ask yourself: “if they were gone at this moment, would they know how much you loved them? When was the last time you told those special people, that you love them and appreciate them being in your life? Well, carpe diem my friend! It is better for them to have known they were loved than never to have known at all.

For those who are looking for my traditional artistic expression of love, I ask that you visit Dazd & Confuzed. He does this day justice.

Hoping you all have day full of love and joy.

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