Valentine’s day is awesome. If you wanna get super pissed off at corporations exploiting it, then get super pissed off at the corporations exploiting it!!!11
But don’t insult a day desginated for celebrating love, or I’ll have to dish out the hurtz0rz.
Personally, and even though I want nothing to do with it, the real thing doesn’t need to have a day of the year put aside for showing off. I mean, if you have to go through all that circus just to prove there’s something special going on, then maybe it’s all a fake.
You’re seeing V-Day as an excuse, not a celebration. If you’re ever gonna appreciate it you need to change your thinking.
A celebration of what? In this day and age, it seems to me that the whole pairing process has been turned into a game. People seem to switch pairs on a monthly basis or so, and there really doesn’t seem to be anything special about it anymore.
Ahhh ha ha ha. I remember when I used to think Love was something special that just happened. And sometimes it is, but has that thinking ever gotten you anywhere? Those people are happier than you are. Clearly they know something. Even if it is just a two week fling, being happy with someone and getting your feet wet is still very cute.
Of course there are bad apples who don’t care about being happy and merely want to assert power over the opposite sex and overdramatize absolutely everything, but I assure you that’s not the goal of most people.
I’m going to have to agree with Hades here.
If you don’t want to celebrate Valentine’s day, that’s fine. I could care less. But right now it seems to me that it’s “cool” to hate Valentine’s Day. I know, I know, I used to bitch about it, too but last year I had a revelation: Valentine’s Day is about love. I at least love my family, and so I give them chocolate on Valentine’s Day. Why? Because it’s a commercial holiday? No. Because it’s a way of expressing that I care about them, and what the Hell is wrong with a day that allows people to express their love to people- even if it is with material items?
Also, for those of you who think that Valentine’s Day is made up by the card and chocolate companies need to tell that to St. Valentine. 
Still, I find it difficult to believe that they actually care about each other when they go on such short things. Should I be surprised that love doesn’t interest me in the least? I mean, all I see is this “it’s all a game” mentality, along with people who claim to love each other, but keep bickering and getting on each other’s nerves all the time.
Although I have to admit that some people use another’s affection as the means to control them. I can’t stand it when that happens.
But overall, I’m beginning to wonder if this isn’t just another mental construct.
I still keep my opinion- what do you need a special day for to show people that you care about them? If you care about people, you’re supposed to show them every once in a while, not once a year on some random day and then like, be free for the rest of the year or something.
Kinda like Christmas. Why bother celebrating what it embodies for one day, when you can do it every day?
So thus, I don’t care for Valentine’s Day, but I don’t really hate it.
So basically, you all celebrated a day where I was cold, sick and lonely. You bastards.
Indeed, DT and Spaz, I forgot to mention that point. Another thing that makes both Valentine’s and Christmas seem so fake to me is the way people only remember certain things once a year, and then spend the rest of the time being a bunch of cold-hearted bastards. If people truly cared for each other, they wouldn’t need to set a day aside just for show.
Because we don’t celebrate what it embodies even on that one day.
I don’t mind people hating V-Day because of its enormous commercial side, but I’ve always thought hating it because you’re lonely and single is just kind of sad. To actually kill yourself over not having a girl… come on. :hahaha;
Anyway, Julie and I just stayed home last night, ordered pizza, and played games. Last year our favorite restaurant was swamped with angsty teens who couldn’t stop making out and moaning loudly in public, so we skipped the frustration.
I do that, too. I buy my girlfriend gifts and chocolate and roses and such all the time (when I can afford it). The big difference is that on Valentine’s Day, they have a lot of the best candy. Mmmm… uh… yeah. Anyway, I love getting candy from a buncha people on one day. Candy.
Now that’s what I call annoying. People making out in public are just idiots trying to show off, if you ask me. They’re all “Oooh, look at us, we’ve got it and you don’t!”, and quite frankly, I don’t give a rat’s ass if they’re in a relationship or not. They’re as annoying as those loudmouths who spent their entire meals at restaurants shouting at 120db.
I’m with StarStorm in that I don’t think Valentine’s Day is bad, it is just that why should there be just one day to tell people you love them. Love should be year round, not just one day.
That is why I celebrate St. Valentine’s Day more traditionally, perhaps. The whole idea of celebrating love on this day comes from late mediaeval England and France, where it was popularly held that the birds chose their mates on this day. That in turn led to composing love letters and poems. That is exactly what I did: I wrote (or rather, finished) a ballad on which I was working, just perhaps as Chaucer, Machaut, and other late-mediaeval English and French poets did centuries earlier.
Of course, you might also celebrate St. Valentine’s Day, as undoubtedly some did even before that, and honour several third-century martyrs by the name Valentine (whose collective day is no4 14 February).
And now it’s 364 days away. 364 days until I have to deal with it again. Hurray!
This is true. It applies to Valentine’s Day as well. The fact that people often don’t celebrate love every day of the year only reinforces the need for Valentine’s Day.
Personally I find the “we could do it any time” attitude inadequate. Most people don’t do it all the time despite being able to, and there is no reason not to celebrate it in an especially powerful way on V-Day even if you do celebrate it every day of the year.
V-Day is neither necessary nor useless no matter how you look at it. Not only does it create BIG opportunities to show one’s affection, but it also enriches our culture and fuels the commercialism that everyone here simultaneously denounces and thrives upon.
Wow, how uncharacteristically logical of you, Hades.
Jealous?