Well yes, because I'm not content until I've had my say on the matter.
The matter I refer to, as I'm guessing most of you know, is Valentines Day.
Valentines Day, V-Day, The Day of Saint Valentine, whatever you choose to call it.
If you're one of those sugar-sweet couples reading this and expecting an ode to the beauty of such a sacrament day...Stop reading.
Actually, don't. Your relationship status should have nothing to do with the readings of my opinions :P
Valentines Day, to me, has become less of a way to celebrate your love as another way to rub it in the faces of the single masses. And of course, you simply MUST buy your beloved a beautiful card, expensive presents and dinner in the mushiest restaurant available (The more crepe-paper hearts falling from the ceiling into your food, the better). If you don't do these things, you obviously don't love them.
Take a look through the mountains of pink plastic hearts and teddy bears, and you may just have an epiphany. You may just realise that it's not about showing your love - not at all! It's about proving you have the money to take your love and keep her (or him) in luxury. Is that really why you want them to stick around? Because buying into the whole tacky commercialism is marking you out merely as a wallet on legs!
Is that really what a celebration of two hearts being together, thanking every deity that that friend happened to introduce them, has become?
And singles are just as bad. Y'know the "Singles Day" celebrations? Supposedly a way of celebrating the fact you're lucky to not be buying into the whole Valentines crap?
Yeah right.
Singles Day is REALLY a way of trying to cover up the fact they're miserable they're single by pretending it's their choice. Because as much as they may rip up photos of the ex that dumped them a week ago, you blatantly know the sellotape's waiting at home for a long night sticking the pieces back together, no doubt accompanied by bottles of some questionable substance and "Twenty Greatest Tear-Jerkers Of All Time".
We know it, they know it.
So to conclude, Valentines Day is ACTUALLY Desperate Singles vs The Largest Wallets.
Enjoy it.
The matter I refer to, as I'm guessing most of you know, is Valentines Day.
Valentines Day, V-Day, The Day of Saint Valentine, whatever you choose to call it.
If you're one of those sugar-sweet couples reading this and expecting an ode to the beauty of such a sacrament day...Stop reading.
Actually, don't. Your relationship status should have nothing to do with the readings of my opinions :P
Valentines Day, to me, has become less of a way to celebrate your love as another way to rub it in the faces of the single masses. And of course, you simply MUST buy your beloved a beautiful card, expensive presents and dinner in the mushiest restaurant available (The more crepe-paper hearts falling from the ceiling into your food, the better). If you don't do these things, you obviously don't love them.
Take a look through the mountains of pink plastic hearts and teddy bears, and you may just have an epiphany. You may just realise that it's not about showing your love - not at all! It's about proving you have the money to take your love and keep her (or him) in luxury. Is that really why you want them to stick around? Because buying into the whole tacky commercialism is marking you out merely as a wallet on legs!
Is that really what a celebration of two hearts being together, thanking every deity that that friend happened to introduce them, has become?
And singles are just as bad. Y'know the "Singles Day" celebrations? Supposedly a way of celebrating the fact you're lucky to not be buying into the whole Valentines crap?
Yeah right.
Singles Day is REALLY a way of trying to cover up the fact they're miserable they're single by pretending it's their choice. Because as much as they may rip up photos of the ex that dumped them a week ago, you blatantly know the sellotape's waiting at home for a long night sticking the pieces back together, no doubt accompanied by bottles of some questionable substance and "Twenty Greatest Tear-Jerkers Of All Time".
We know it, they know it.
So to conclude, Valentines Day is ACTUALLY Desperate Singles vs The Largest Wallets.
Enjoy it.
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