With Valentine's day approaching quickly, this quote seemed to make sense. Well, not really, considering this is my self-proclaimed "Valentines Day Rant". I needed to write some more, and this seemed like a good writing exercise. If it offends you, don't read it, my writing isn't meant to be taken wicked seriously anyhow, I'm often trying out different viewpoints, saturating it with sarcasm, yada yada yada.
Anyhow... *clears throat* ... ... ...
Valentines day is the day of love, the day that happy couples give each other hugs, kisses, and chocolate. Oh, yes, lots and lots of chocolate. Of course, Valentines day is a day for couples. If you have no significant other, there is no significance to this "holiday". Sure, we're happy for all those happy couples that have found love, but what about us?
Obviously, Valentines Day is an scheme devised by people happily "in love" to make them feel special. Valentines Day is simply discrimination in another form. No love interest that loves you back? Awe, too bad! No chocolate for yoooou! For single people, it's national "Lets wallow in self pity over our singleness" day. Discrimination via Valentines Day rears its ugly head in Elementary schools as well. The unpopular kids get no Valentine cards. In Middle School, the unloved kids received no carnations. Kind parents sometimes give candy to their kids on Valentines Day, though this practice seems to wear out half way through Middle School.
Aside from all of this, Valentines Day also has poor choice in colors and symbols. While red may be the respective color of a specific drummer in a certain band, when it is taken out of that context, it is a rather unappealing color. The same can be said of pink, red's "cousin". While I do not have a problem with blood, which happens to be red most of the time, many people do. Furthermore, a heart? Really? What kind of a symbol is that? Aside from the fact that the Valentines Day heart looks nothing like a real heart, and the fact that the heart is not, in fact, the organ that makes you love someone (I said love, people, as in the emotion, so don't take that the wrong way), hearts also make an appearance at Halloween. I fail to see the link between these two holidays. If someone walked up to you and handed you a "Halloween" heart (ie, realistic looking heart, or actual heart), you would probably freak out and go inconspicuously puke your brains out. However, if someone gave you a "Valentines Day" heart, you'd probably make some sort of adorable, appreciative noise and flash them a smile. Heck, maybe you'd even give them a hug or a kiss.
And, yet, through some of us rolling our eyes at this practice and despising the holiday, many singles have at least a slight yearning to possess a "Valentine". While this probably has something to do with the human characteristic "You have it, I want it", it is quite understandable. It is also human nature to love, or "like like" others, and as long as you feel this way, you have a natural want to express that love. One can't really blame people in couples for buying into the atrocious holiday, either, because, for one thing, their significant other would be hurt if they did not because this is the way that Society has programmed them. Secondly, it makes you feel special to give and receive chocolate and bask in love. Thirdly, there is an unspoken peer pressure to participate in any holiday that one is able to participate in. We wouldn't want to be shunned, now would we? And, lastly, why the hell not?
The bottom line is: Valentines Day overlooks the feelings of single people everywhere, has bad taste, and pressures people into its dastardly ways. What I'm trying to say is... We single people want some chocolate, too.
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