So, those types of love:
- Agape – love of humanity.
- Storge – love of family
- Philia -- love of friends
- Pragma – love which endures.
- Philautia – self love
- Ludus – flirtatious/playful love
- Eros – romantic and erotic love.
Valentine's Day only seems to celebrate eros, and it does so in a big, splashy, commercialized way.
I want people to reclaim the other types of love for Valentine's Day and go out and celebrate them. Galentine's Day is a good start, for those female friends who want to celebrate each other. But we should be celebrating our families, our friends, our flirtations, the world. Wouldn't the world be better for that?
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