How come on a Holiday when we're supposed to honor a revered saint it becomes an excuse for an already sex crazed culture to delve further into their sex crazed addiction? Seriously, personally I hate Valentine's Day. It has become a good excuse for couples to rub every single person's face in the fact that they are single. When did Valentine's Day start being about relationships and not about loving other people? I wonder what would happen if our culture actually started to love, and by love I don't mean mushy love, I mean care for the other person love, the other person.
You can say I'm just bitter because I don't have a boyfriend or whatever and you'd be partially correct. But that still does not give you the right to rub your boyfriend in my face. I am so tired of everyone else around me getting acknowledged because they are beautiful, or whatever and I get the leftovers. What about taking the time to acknowledge the girl sitting right next to you with downcast eyes? If Valentine's day is truly about making someone feel special, what about taking the opportunity to make someone you see everyday, but don't acknowledge feel special?
Growing up if I was invited to a Valentine's day party, my mom used to make me give Valentine's to everyone at the party, not just the people I liked. I wonder how we would turn the world around if we started doing something like this. What I mean is go out of your way to acknowledge a person you don't usually acknowledge. Not just an acknowledgement of who they are, or the fact that they're human, but an acknolwedgement of the fact that they are human with a need to feel special. If more people actually took time out to make another human feel special, I wonder where that would take our culture.
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Hey, if you don't like the idea of a Singles Appreciation Day, how about a Celibates Appreciation Day? We should show greater appreciation for our celibates.
I too resent Valentine's day. A small part of it's because I have yet to retain a boyfriend over one of those blasted holidays. But mostly because, as you pointed out, it has nothing to do with love. Mostly about selling stuff and making the single ones feel more pathetic than usual. A celibates appreciation day sounds pretty good, but I'd probably be more ridiculed than before :)
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