So it's coming to that time of the year again....some people love it and some people hate it. Now I'm not saying that I hate it and I'm not saying that I love it either...it's really just another day. According to Wikipedia this is what it says about it:
Saint Valentine's Day, commonly shortened to Valentine's Day,[1][2][3] is a holiday observed on February 14 honoring one or more early Christian martyrs named Saint Valentine. It is traditionally a day on which lovers express their love for each other by presenting flowers, offering confectionery, and sending greeting cards (known as "valentines").[1][3] The day first became associated with romantic love in the circle of Geoffrey Chaucer in the High Middle Ages, when the tradition of courtly love flourished. It was first established by Pope Gelasius I in 496 AD, and was later deleted from the General Roman Calendar of saints in 1969 by Pope Paul VI.
Modern Valentine's Day symbols include the heart-shaped outline, doves, and the figure of the winged Cupid. Since the 19th century, handwritten valentines have given way to mass-produced greeting cards.[4]
My question is....why is this one day chosen to show your love and affection for your loved ones? Shouldn't we be doing that every day? Why does what someone does this ONE day out of the year make you feel special? How do people make you feel throughout the whole year? We are so trapped into this holiday sometimes thinking oh I have to have a boyfriend, girlfriend, husband, wife or partner to celebrate this holiday. Why? Because everybody makes you feel like you need to have a significant other for this holiday. Why can't it be like it used to be when we were kids in school? Yeah sure there were some of us that didn't want to get a card from someone that we didn't like but you pretty much did the same thing for everyone so no one was left out. It's amazing how things change when we grow up and our thinking changes. We feel that we must be with someone to feel like we belong or are doing what every body else is doing.
So the whole point of this entry is....RELAX people. If you are single, don't hate every couple out there if they are doing lovey dovey things and you are feeling left out. Do something for yourself, don't you deserve something special if you think so get it. Don't sit around thinking that you aren't special just because you feel you don't have anyone to spend this OVER RATED holiday with. And if you are part of a couple, don't feel you have to do something extra special this day, you should make your significant other feel special EVERY DAY. And show them that you care about them on a daily basis. This is just another tactic for us to spend too much money for someone that we feel we need to make feel special on this one day and you know what we all fall for it...even me!
Well until next time....
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