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.
Supposedly this one day and a few
generic gestures and nice words abolish all the nasties and crimes committed previously
throughout the relationship and rid the giver of all guilt. Watching couples
flap about confessing their undying love for one another because they are
compelled to do so really does have me contemplating shooting fat little Cupid’s
arrow through my own head.
The worst thing about holidays is as
soon as one is over, all the fuss for the following one begins. As if January
isn’t already depressing enough with being skint and what not, as soon as New Year
is over the whole month right up until the 14th of February is
crammed full of dangly hearts, naked cherubs and adverts telling consumers to
splurge money. Modern relationships are difficult enough and then all these
other complex decisions burden us such as choosing the perfect card – not too
mushy, not too funny, it’s financially and emotionally draining.
If you’re happy and in love, great, good
for you but I can’t help but think maybe an anniversary date would be a better,
more appropriate opportunity to show your affection and splash out the cash on
romantic gestures? In conclusion, Valentines Day is over rated because quite frankly,
no one else cares about how happy you are in your relationship. It’s boring.
The only people who like Valentine’s Day are people IN relationships and even
then I think they’d all appreciate not feeling obliged to spend our precious
student loan on stupid cards and expensive jewellery. I’ll be blowing it all instead
on more important things, such as lots of vodka and getting very drunk with all
my other single friends ... Priorities.
Also, after all that ranting, I hope you all appreciate my mad art skills sighted above ^
No kisses no love (to keep in with the theme of this post)