i know i probably wrote something about christmas, but know i want to rant about valentines day.
i really want to know what the point is with having a holiday where you are forced to say you love someone. all it really does is remind those of us without anyone of how alone we are and who we’ve lost.
oh, big deal. some candy, flowers, and a stupid card. you can get any of those things every day. but i know it’s more special on valenines day, you get it from someone who loves you or has some pathetic infatuation with you. if you love someone you shouldn’t have to have a holiday to tell the person or express you love. you should be wiling to do it any day, just so they know you can do it on your own, and not being forced to by society. and the best is the people who dump they’re girlfriends or boyfriends on valentines day, then those lucky ones get to be reminded every year how they lost that ‘love’, and are reminded of it by all of the saps who are buying other people shit that was half off.
Well let me know what your views are on this pathetic excuse of a holiday.
Hope
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well i like it, because afterward i can buy MYSELF all this shit at half off. yes i agree that valentine’s day well is stupid, because you should beable to tell those you love that you love them and not feel pressured to have an “other” to be happy. wouldnt we be better off without it?
Personally I love valentines. When I was a hormonal teenager, valentines was a chance to get laid again. Now, Valentines is cool coz it gives me an excuse to do somethin stupid, sappy and romantic for the person I love, and not be called a girl for it by my mates.
I figure any holiday that promotes love is pretty cool, because in alot of cases it gives people courage to express shit they wouldn’t do on a regular day.
If people abuse the holiday then that’s shitty but it’s just another occasion to celebrate how much you love somebody and we need all the fuckin good cheer we can get. If there was a national don’t-love-somebody day then you’d bitch about that too, coz you guys are never happy.
Oh, and we don’t need excuses to tell people we love them, but it’s good to have an excuse anyway.
If Valentines pisses you off then you’re looking at it wrong. If you’re alone, then boo fuckin hoo. Don’t be selfish, you should be happy for all the people who aren’t.
uh huh, well thats nice. i alowed to write my own opinion and if you don’t like it then don’t say shit about it.
Valentines day is another corporate holiday to get people to spend money. That is all it is. For those of you out there that have a loved one, I am happy for you and best of wishes. But I think having an assigined day where you have to buy something is ridicules.
**Twisted-Evil**
It’s fucking easy say that the alone should be happy for the partnered when you yourself have a partner. Just like it is easy to say that Valentines day sucks when you don’t have a partner. And as someone who has never experienced a Valentines day that I could “share with the person I love” I think it is crap, and should be done away with too.
In truth, even if I did have someone, I wouldn’t want to celebrate V Day, because it’s stupid making a day special, just because the world has made up some special name and meaning for it. If you love someone, you should show them everyday, not just pull it out on V day, because everyone else is doing it.
Also blacklight, isn’t having a day that makes people who are alone, feel even worse about themselves, a little more selfish than the lonely not wanting a day that gives them a reason to be unhappy? Think about it from both sides for a change.
I have mixed feelings about Valentines day. Every year when it comes around i moan and groan about how commericial it is and how the public are exploited into buying sappy love stuff. But every year i always do something, or try to do something special for the person that i’m with. I never spend any money though, i usually just make a home made card and write a poem in it which means more than any present can ever mean.
I do think valentines day is just an excuse to tell people how much you love them - but people should be able to do that anyway.
forgottenindark. I know you’re allowed your opinion. and I’m allowed mine. you can’t quiet me, just because our opinions clash, as that makes you very hypocritical.
I’m sorry but this day doesn’t “force” anybody to do anything. You all scorn it for being stupid, but if it’s so stupid why are you letting it bother you?
Lonely people are going to feel alone, because they *are* alone. Valentines just gives them a time to pity themselves about it. In the end, it’s just a day. It has a pretty name, and it can be special if you make it special. Or it can be nothing, it’s your choice. There being alot of chocolate and flowers in the shops doesn’t make you any more alone than you are on any other day.
I’ve been lonely and fucked up on Valentines plenty of times, and just because you don’t have anybody it doesn’t mean you should block out an experience that will make other people happy. I’m sorry but you shouldn’t. It IS selfish to think that a day created to bring joy and love should be destroyed just to cushion the feelings of people who let it bother them.
Well we feel lonely every fucking day, so why do we need it to be exploited and pointed out to us. And I’m sorry but Valentines isn’t a pretty name, you could name it anything you want and it would still be the same shit. It’s not selfish of anyone to not want to be reminded of they’re lonelyness, in fact it’s selfish to want to keep a holiday around where you make a majority of people feel like shit. It isn’t here to bring people joy it’s just a way to sell a bunch of pointless candy and stuffed animals, on a day that shouldn’t be any diffent than any other. If you love someone buy them those things because you want to not cause they’re on sale and it’s a ’special day’. We don’t use this day to pitty ourselves, we just don’t like having it rubbed in our faces that we don’t have anyone special.
It’s not true that there’s a majority of loneliness. Maybe here there is, that’s true, but not universally.
Don’t exclude me from the bracket of people who’ve been lonely, ok? I’ve spent alot of time being alone, so alone that there was nobody in the world I could even talk to, let alone love. And we’re not talking about odd occasions, we’re talking about years.
But I never wanted to take it out on all the people who wanted to have a little fun and light heartedness.
I mean, you’re taking this day so personally - as though it’s designed to ‘rub it in your face’ that you’re alone. It isn’t, it’s just a day that celebrates how much we care about the people we love. I used to love going out on Valentines, even when I didn’t have anybody, because instead of letting it bother me, I let it reassure me that there’s true love out there. It makes me actually happy to see people in love and enjoying themselves, no matter how self-involved I’m feeling at the time.
I’m not saying that it’s wrong for you to feel vulnerable about being lonely, I mean, we all do. But resenting one day just because other people are happy on it ….. that’s not something I would even consider.
People can have fun and be light hearted any day, they just chose a day to make it public for everyone to do it. And i don’t just resent the day cause people are ‘happy’ on it, i resent it cause it’s so comercialized and is made into such a big deal it’s no longer a special thing, not in my opinion at least.
I have nothing against people being happy. Hell I am happy. But I still dont like V-day for the same reason Forgotten said. It is a comersialized holiday. It has no real meaning. I will not celebrate a day that has no background.
**Twisted-Evil**
Well you know, Valentines Day was originally a pagan ritual…quite different to the candy and chocolates and cards of today. It was for young girls to dream of there hope for love, there were rituals and all to go with it—like putting 3 bay leaves on the pillow before going to sleep of that night.
Personally, it’s a nice day for those who have a lover. For the rest of us, we’re not forced to participate . . . really.
Myself, no partner . . . but there was a nice belated Valentine from a much appreciated friend . . . really nice surprise . . .