I don’t like Valentines Day.
I am a guy, so there are all the normal guy reasons for not
liking valentines: It’s impossible to find reservations, there are endless
expectations and I hope you enjoy eating Kraft Dinner for a month because there
goes half your paycheck.
But it goes deeper than that. I am not that cheap, and I am certainly not heartless .I just don’t buy into
the mindless concept that love and relationships should be celebrated on one
day.
Valentines is meant to be a day where people have the
opportunity to celebrate their relationships with the people that are special
to them. Good idea right? Everyone likes to know they are important. Everyone
likes to know that somebody cares. I don’t hate the idea. But I also didn’t
hate the idea of communism. That
worked out so well.
Here is the reality.
We have created this holiday where people who don’t have someone special
in their lives feel alone and isolated and those who are lucky enough to have
someone special in their lives get to spend a significant amount of money on
chocolates, cards, teddy bears, dinners, etc. The list goes on. You’re welcome
Hershey and Hallmark. You can pay your employees for another year.
Why can’t we just appreciate the people in our lives everyday
and skip this Valentines garbage? Hershey’s and Hallmark is not the recipe for
successful relationship. Consumerism is
taking over our lives. Stop the madness. Celebrate your life and the people in
it everyday, not just one day in the
middle of February.
-Blaze
Blaze,
ReplyDeleteI actually agree with your post. I believe that Valentines day is a day to celebrate the relationships you have with the ones you love. Unfortunately, it has blown up into a holiday that is about how much you spend and how much time and effort you put into your gifts. Hallmark just needed a way to make money in between Christmas and Easter. I feel bad for all the men who loose sleep and stress over this holiday!
Keep up the great rants,
Dayna