Valentine's Day and Parkinson's

They say love is blind, love is unconditional, “All you need is love”, sang John Lennon. I could go on but I think you get the idea. It is Valentine’s Day, the one day of the year where we pay tribute to the greatest emotion the world has to offer, love. What would you do for love? What price can you put on it? Untold fortunes have been lavished upon the altar of love in order to show the extent of one person’s unrelenting affections for another. Love has inspired an artist to cut off his ear and a king to launch a thousand ships, songs to be sung and poems to be written, and chocolates to be put in a heart shaped box.

For me, love is a wife who can only see the man she married those many years ago -- as he was, not the shaking hands or the slowness of his body. Her love is my shield that protects me and the armor that gives me comfort. Her touch lets me believe I am still the same as I always was. After all these years, it is her love that inspires me and keeps whole.

For all those who still love all of us who fight life’s adversities whatever they may be, Happy Valentine’s Day!

I'm Pat Younts and I Move to Live.