I am not saying this as a heartbroken lovelorn fool. Or am I saying this filled to the brim with bitterness. What bugs me about Valentines Day is the actual point of the holiday. Today we honour the spirit of love. Today is a celebration of romantic love! Isn't love what we all desire and long for? Love is, as they say, all you need. We needed to single out a specific day to focus on this…like we don't think about this enough already? Like the search for love doesn't consume our every thought? Do we really need a holiday focused on an emotion? Geez can't wait till the end of May for Wackyful Day. The day we honour the gift of joy and laughter. If you feel you want to celebrate your romantic love…here's an idea, do it on your anniversary! That is what the day is for. That can be Jack and Diane's special little day. And hey Saint Valentine, the rest of the world not currently in relationships just wanted to thank you for setting aside a day where we can be reminded again that we are totally alone! Big props! But most of all, if you elect one particular day, once a year to prove your love to your partner, then you my friend, don't deserve to be in a relationship at all.
Valentines Day has become a retribution for shitty boyfriends and girlfriends. People see it as a "get out of jail free" card in their relationship. Yeah, a box of chocolates and a half dozen roses on a day everybody else's boyfriend is doing the same, will sure make up for the weeks of constant letdowns and broken promises. Does one day of insignificant gifts and by the books romance make up for countless days of crappy love? I don't think so. There is no thought behind any of these Valentines Day actions because we are being programmed to do them. The sentiments seem hollow. "Better pick up some roses for the misses because it's Valentines Day after all." Oh that's creative. Flowers and chocolates. Those are the generic "love" gifts that you can buy with your eyes closed. I am not saying women don't appreciate them but when you are buying gifts at the pharmacy to display your affections for someone then something is a bit wrong. There is such a sense of insincerity on Valentines Day because we are being instructed to do something romantic. You can't be ordered to be romantic. Being ordered to do something lacks personal feeling. "You have to go tell him you love him…" just doesn't work for me.
Romance should be a regular occurrence and not something that is only celebrated on certain holidays. Buy flowers for your partner but do it…yesterday. Not the day they know, you know you have to. You should display your love on a daily basis. You shouldn't prove your love one day a year because the radio ads are reminding you to. And "proving your love" to me, suggests that you are trying to establish the validity of it and if that's the case, you realllllllllly need cupids help.
…but that's just my opinion.
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