Love Lets You Drown
I'll swim down, would you? You? That’s the thing about love, isn’t it? It’s an ocean, wide and endless, something you can wade into carefully or throw yourself into headfirst. It pulls you under, fills your lungs, wraps around you like the warmest, deepest, most terrifying embrace. And yet, you don’t fight it. You don’t swim away. You let it take you because there’s something beautiful in the surrender, something in the way it swallows you whole and makes you feel more alive than ever. Valentine’s Day is celebrated because love has always been a big deal for people, and over time, different traditions have shaped it into what it is today. It started with St. Valentine, a Roman priest who, according to legend, secretly helped couples get married when the emperor had banned it. He was caught and executed on February 14, which later became a day to honor love. Before that, the Romans had a festival called Lupercalia around the same...
