Well, it is the day of "love", so I might as well write about it. Well I might get my head bitten off by the friends of mine who read this, but... well. In my own opinion, Valentines Day is a sad excuse to imitate love. Sometimes peoples happiness revolves around if they have a Valentine or not. Its retarted. Why do something that could be special on such a Cliche day to do special things. Now, if it was like... March 3rd and you did something special and amazing for absolutely no reason, well... that shows you care. BUT if you do something special and amazing Febuary 14th... well, it takes away the amazingness, cause at the same time, millions of other people are doing something special too. Why should there only be one day in the year to show someone you care about them. If you really care about them, make each day special. Do something that will make them smile, and give you that look that you automatically know that they care. That smile, that wonderful smile. Its all cheapened by the fact that its done on Valentines Day. Not only is Love being commercialized on this day, now even Anti Valentines Day is being commercialized. People who dislike Valentines day and wear black, the antithesis of red apparently. NOW hallmark is captializing on them, making Anti Valentines Day cards. That just goes to show you, no matter how pure an emotion, no matter how wonderful an idea... it can be capitalized to make money. When you cheapen an emotion like love with such an evil emotion, like greed... well it just creates a day with a facade of happiness. Even people subconsciouly know how...cheap and fake that day really is. Did you know that on Valentines day, you are twice as likely to reasses your dating situation. Basically, on this one day, you think about breaking up with your loved one twice as much. (
Click here for actual survey ) Love and greed dont work together, they dont go together like a horse and carriage. And Valentines day is a prime example of that. I wonder who actually can tell me, why do we celebrate this day? Most scholars believe that Saint Valentine was a man during the roman empire. The emperor at the time decided that single men made better soldiers, so he outlawed marriage in young people. Valentine decided this was injust and him being a priest, began secretly marrying people. He was caught and executed. How do we get cards and ballons and teddy bears, from that? Thats about as crazy as the legend of easter. Where the fuck did the bunnies and the eggs come from!? "Oh crap, Jesus is back. Hide the eggs. And if he asks, we will tell him the bunnies took them." Easter traditions are a tad more crazy than Valentines day. Honestly, its just a normal day....filled with too much red and way too many ballons.
My Views on Valentines day- A corporate commercialized holiday, specializing in the cheapening of one of the beautifulest emotions known to man, love. Im tired of being described as a cynic or that I say love sucks. Love is wonderful. Valentines day, well.. thats an excuse to get a girl a present and hope to get laid. Thats really what it boils down to.