One year on Valentine’s Day I gave my girl flowers. Another year I gave her chocolates. Yet another year I gave her a book. Nothing wrong with these present and I know she liked them all. She knew the amount of effort I had put into trying to find the best present I could for her. So what if in the end my choices were exactly the same as those most guys make? After all, how much variety is there in Valentine gift ideas? And what’s wrong if the presents I gave were not original. They were good enough for most guys so they were good enough for me. She knew I loved her and that is what was important.

Or at least so I thought until one day some months ago when I was talking to a friend and he mentioned to me that he had gotten a special song written for his girl from something called My-song.ca. I asked him what it was all about and he told me that My-song.ca is made up of a group of professional musicians with decades of music behind them who offer a unique service. If you tell them about yourself and the one you love (nothing too personal – just what you want to say in a love song) they will write a special personalized gift song that makes the most unique valentine gift ever. This is a professional grade song, not some amateur effort. And its recorded in a professional recording studio by professional musicians and given to you on a high performance CD.

Okay, it sounded nice, but like, what’s so great about it? My friend didn’t try to explain but asked me to drop in again the next day, which I did. He pulled out the CD, which he had borrowed from his girl and played it for me. Let me tell you I was blown away. I mean, this was a great song and sounded like something you’d hear on the radio or TV. And the lyrics – they were so personal you could immediately make out that this is a special song created for just one person. That’s when it hit me.

What my friend had done was to use My-song.ca to create the most romantic gift – a personalized Valentine’s Day song that told his girl how he felt about her. A song that was so good it blew you away. And it’s a song that no one else will ever be able to gift –each song My-song.ca produces is unique and one of a kind – it’s made for one person or one couple only.

I realized then and there, that what’s important is not just the thought behind the present but how much of yourself you put into it. I had taken a lot of trouble over the presents I had given in the past, but what was there of me in any of them? This year I’m going to give my girl a real surprise – a personalized song that tells her how much I care for her.

This will be a present that only I can give her and will be the most romantic Valentine gift ever!