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Year-Round Valentine -- The Perfect Duet for Valentine's Day! (Or ANY Day!)

2/1/2023

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Valentine's Day is right around the corner -- but it doesn't matter! My Eva Via original duet, Year-Round Valentine, is about how, when you're in love, every​ day can feel like Valentine's Day.

Even Valentine's Day.

I've often said that most people would be a lot happier if they could live their whole life like they're traveling. I don't mean going parasailing and hopping on planes. I mean deploying the same curious eyes and hungry mind in your everyday life that you do while you're overseas.  

I actually have a song about this. It's called A Lifetime in a Day. It sounds like a love song, and it vaguely is, but it's mostly about how I live every single day like it's my only day... 

So every day feels like an entire lifetime. 

Similarly, most couples would be a lot happier if they could life their whole relationship like it's Valentine's Day. 

Which I thought of today when this memory popped up on my Facebook memories:
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I think my favorite thing about that whole relationship, which lasted years, was how every single day, we'd do shit like singing A Whole New World on a pile of rugs at Costco. No matter how long we were together, it never stopped feeling like we were IN love. 

Which is why I sing, in Verse 2 of Year-Round Valentine:



Girl
They say "in love" fades over time, but instead each day I feel it more and more

Butterflies, he takes my breath, no Juliet's ever felt this way before

Boy 
When I see her, the rocks and stones take a new life of their own


Girl
Sunroof's open, windows down, we're heading to the coastline hand-in-hand

Runnin', jumpin' waves and wind, we're making more than castles in the sand

Boy 
Yellow sunset reflecting off the water on your skin

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And then, in Verse 3, I continue: 



Boy
You can call me crazy -- others do! -- but I've loved you since the day I heard your name

Girl 
I'm so in love, with not just you, but the life we built and the person I became


Both 
White rug, fireplace

Hold me longer and we’ll let the workday wait

Girl
Each morning when he thinks I sleep, I watch him in the garden with his plants

Boy
Each morning when I watch her sleep, more beautiful than the night of our first dance.

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Shooting hoops can feel like throwing a ball at a basket, or it can feel like winning championships. 

Dating can feel like buying an obligatory bouquet one day a year, or it can feel like letting yourselves be silly together and flying over the ancient pyramids during a "boring" shopping trip. 

Life can feel like jobs and chores and to-do lists, or you can channel your wonder every day. 

It's all about mindset. (And probably a bit of hardwiring.)

So get mindful and intentional about the world around you -- and enjoy these Eva Via originals! Since Presidents Day is also coming right up, you'll also want to listen to Jefferson. 
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It's about Thomas Jefferson, but Lincoln and Washington are in it, too. ​​
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changingthenarrative
6/20/2023 01:38:22 am

This is great advice.

I tell people who have trouble seeing the positive to look for the little positive things that are present in every single day. Do something to make yourself content. Find life's small pleasures.

That's how I've lived my life for a long time, possibly because life wasn't easy for quite awhile to the point just being content and not dealing with drama or negativity or depression is such a blessing I never take for granted.

My job is pretty physically demanding and kind of tedious or something a lot of people could look at and see it as a negative but I find the little things about it I love each workday. I try to be positive and friendly towards coworkers etc and find quite a few who will reciprocate and engage me in a real way and look forward to seeing me. Work can be hard sometime but it's all in how you see it and how you approach life and approach every day and its obligations and opportunities.

The world really is an amazing place if you don't forget to stop and take it all in sometimes. Relationships are no different. You chose your person for a reason, and if you both appreciate each other's amazingness and choose each other every day, it can be magical like you described.

Glad to see you're still killin it and having your adventures and slinging the advice in this crazy world.

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