Valentines Day. If couples and public
displays of affection weren’t agonising and annoying enough every other day of
the year … this day really does rub the salt in wound for fellow singletons. By
no means am I a cynic, everyone likes a little romance, right? I just don’t
think a heart shaped box filled with cheap chocolates picked up from card
factory for 99p and an overly sized teddy bear that will ultimately be
abandoned and neglected once the
endorphin filled day loses all its glory (only to return a year later) classes
as romance. It isn’t romantic if you’re told you have to do something just
because we feel we have to.
Cliché single person thing to say but if
someone really did care about you, they would show you they did more than once
a year or at least off their own back, not just make an excessive effort on one
over commercialised, over rated, money grabbing ‘holiday’. I really don’t understand
what all the fuss is about personally, especially when you see couple after
couple crammed in to Nando’s on the actual day … There’s nothing romantic about
chicken and peri peri sauce; after such a big kafuffle and build up to valentine’s
day, I think I’d be highly disappointed ending up in bloody Nando’s.