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Why the love you give to yourself fulfills happiness

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Days like Valentine’s Day usually call upon people to spend a little extra time on the people they care about. The holiday is usually equated with couple buying flowers, chocolates, and gifts to one another. Over the years Valentine’s Day has shifted to the love that comes from familiar and unexpected places. It can be celebrated with family, friends, pets, or even that stranger you smile to at the grocery store.

Love should be celebrated

For whatever reason, we may find ourselves not being able to celebrate the big day in the way we would have wanted. Maybe we’ve lost someone, had a friendship break up, estranged from family, or have been single for quite some time. Your reasons are yours to keep. However, it doesn’t mean that we can’t find our own small ways to celebrate the joy of love. Love should be celebrated in any capacity and sometimes the love we find is right under our nose the whole time. It says, “Here I am, it’s me!” and you find yourself thinking, did that come from me? Why yes it did.

Celebrate Yourself

When we celebrate ourselves and the love we hold for our own being we find happiness. The things you would want from other people can be given to yourself. Want flowers? Go buy those flowers. Want care and attention? Schedule a self care day and dedicate the whole day to you. You will find that once you start building a relationship with your own self, the love you give to others will now be treasured by you. You will be giving and receiving, and being able to partake in both can spark happiness. Valentine’s Day doesn’t have to be about spending the day with another person, especially when it may not be an option at the moment, you can focus inwards and give the love you would have given to yourself.

We are all trying to love and be loved in some way. The love you have for you is something that will not change. It goes with you wherever you go, and grows when you water it. Give yourself credit for the love you give and the love you deserve. Gift it to yourself and watch as you find confidence and radiance in its glow.

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Building a blog

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I must admit. I have never built a blog like this before. The blogging experience I have is from creating a LiveJournal back when places like MySpace, Flickr, and DailyBooth were popular. I remember enjoying the use of an online journal so to speak. This of course, will not be a journal. This will be a blog. I feel like I need to make that distinction to get in the mindset of putting words to paper, or rather word to screen. It can be a bit daunting.

However after watching a couple tutorials, googling some answers, and then of course going through a lot of trial and error I have finally made an About Me page. Ba dum tss. It took me longer than necessary and after I was able to finally create one, I was reminded of that scene from Spongebob where he writes his essay and the only word he has on the page is a beautiful The. 

I was patient though. I know that Rome wasn’t built in a day. Not that I would compare this blog to Rome. Good things do, however, take time.

Time is one of my favorite subjects and I will probably talk about it often enough in the coming year. For now I will give an update on what the blog will be about. The blog will be about my own musings of course. Things that tickle me. I tried thinking of any niche topics to cover. Books. Movies. Writing, etc. However, I wanted to write about it ALL. So despite what a lot of people say when starting a blog. I don’t wish to cater to one audience. This blog is after-all my outlet. I want it to reflect that. So I will be talking about movies, books, art, my hobbies, life experiences, and any other things that I want to talk about.

What all those topics will have in common is my perceptions and opinions of them. They will be shared here, where viewers will be free to listen or discuss. I hope I was able to provide the foundation for what you will read when visiting my blog. Feel free to give me any input if you are a fellow blogger or a friendly visitor. Until then, adiós!

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Hello World

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My name is Jessica Santiago and this is my blog. I have always wanted to start one and I am excited to see how this works. I would love to type more, but unfortunately I hit my head pretty hard about an hour ago (long story) and would love nothing more than to lay down and rest. That being said, the plan was to create this blog today, and my New Year’s resolution has been to not prolong things, specifically happiness. I will get into this more in another post, I promise. However, I need to at least make one post.

For now, I will give a couple details about me. I am a writer. I love to write, I write in journals, I write stories, and sometimes when I am bold I write poetry. As a writer, it almost feels like a rite of passage starting a blog. I am also an avid reader, which, I feel like writing and reading almost usually go hand in hand. I’ll probably read a bit as I lay down even. I also like to draw and paint. I am, I feel, subpar in those areas, but nothing a little practice won’t fix. I also like to learn new languages, I am focusing on Korean at the moment. I am trying to learn guitar, piano will be next. And I like to create, I make TikToks, YouTube videos, and as we can see, blogs.

I don’t want to give too much away just yet, but I’m hoping to make something great here and have some fun doing it. Thanks for reading my first post, till then, adios!

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