So yesterday it was Valentine’s Day, but it’s also Valentine’s Day today, even though it was yesterday. Go figure.

Anyway, I figured I’d write about how Valentine’s Day came to be.

You see, way back in the dawn of time, before people, before animals, there was an event. This event led to many things and is often considered something important, but I won’t go into it as it’s not important for this bit of writing.

So there it was, and over time things changed. A grand nothingness led to things coming into play, and motions and movements, and then reactions upon reactions and decisions, conscious or otherwise, were made. This all led to a series of other things. Eventually formations bordering on recognisation until they were recognisable came to be, and slowly, yet surely, a number of other things formed and things became more recognisable and distinct.

Many millennia passed and some might consider that period of millennia passing as uneventful, but if it weren’t for that time, we wouldn’t be here. We wouldn’t have reached having a day known as Valentine’s Day. Sure, the minutiae doesn’t matter all that much, but, cumulatively, it all matters.

So there was a lot of things, and gradually functions and motion and movement and all of those other things that always sound great to say, and our little planet settled down, and then more things started happening. More reactions, and eventually things got cool enough to support a greater form of life beyond super basic. From there, oceans formed, vegetation grew, biota expanded and diversified, and increasing more and more forms of life came to life, and it was all quite wonderful and lovely and all sorts of fascinating.

Life got more complex and different forms and variations came through, taking advantage of whatever it could, and subsequently creating opportunity for other organisms, and so on and so forth. It was as though a long dance with many steps, weaving in and out of complexity and speed, and creating a trail that could be followed to some sort of presentation of the wondrous, but all very much a mundane process. But it all kept on moving and changing, and slowly, yet surely, the planet became much richer in what it had.

Of course, not all times were good, but life has a way of being opportunistic, especially in times when it must, and so it kept bouncing back after each time we’d consider a setback. It kept on going and it kept on coming forth, and eventually, through it all, it persevered. It kept on going and spreading outward, and rebounding and surviving and spreading, for life is resilient, and eventually through all the change and evolution it had, we came to a point where what we consider to be the first forms of the modern human, homo sapiens, came to be.

After that it all became a bit of a blur, and in that blur is how Valentine’s Day came to be.

The time it took to write five-hundred words: 09:43:34

This was a struggle. Lack of sleep coming in again. Throwing things into disarray.
Could this have been better? Yes. I feel I was trying to get to the conclusion without taking the path.

Written at home.