If you knew me well, you'd know I love letting people know I care about them. I love making cards and sending candy and surprising people. It's nice to have a day to say, hey, we may not be lovers, but I love and care about you. Everyone has someone that cares about them, even if they refuse to realize it.
So there's a lot of venom. This holiday was created so card, candy, flower, and jewelry companies could make more money. It's fake and stupid and meaningless. It's just a Single's Awareness Day so that people can rub their cute love in everyone's face and we can all be depressed.
Really, well thank you for ruining my day when I was trying to make yours better. Thank you for being so cynical and cruel to the optimism and passion I have to say I care about you.
People choose to make this day positive or negative. I prefer positive. Just remember, if I wish you a Happy Valentine's Day, you might want to follow the rule that if you don't have something nice to say, it's best to not say anything at all.
Yes, I can see the point that Valentine's Day is highly commercialized. However, over-all, I am with you, LK.
ReplyDeleteIf you ask me, our culture is so rigidly individualist that we NEED a day where people can loosen up and acknowledge their basic human instinct to love and be loved.
I has been a recent frustration of mine that the words "I love you" always have to be accompanied by tension and awkwardness - How will these words be received? Will I look like a fool for saying them? Is it too soon? Will saying it make the other person feel uncomfortable?
If we truly live by the creed, "Love you neighbor as yourself," shouldn't we be expressing love to EVERYONE, from out romantic partners to the people we meet in grocery stores and on street corners. I wish that expressions of love could be the norm. I wish that every day could be Valentine's Day! Or, rather, I wish that every day could be an ideal Valentine's Day where everyone would give, and be receptive to, love.
I'm glad there is someone else out there who feels the same. I love and care about you, LK.
Awww...I love and care about you too, Erin!
ReplyDelete:) Thanks!
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