Surely as one gets older the crasser this day becomes? After school it was almost de riguer to weep silently into your pillow as the smell of Crispy Pancakes enamated under the door to rouse you begrudgingly from the annual non appearence of a valentine's card from the girl you REALLY THOUGHT THIS time would send you one? But as a lonly adult? How many people go through this dejection year after year until they find themselves semi jaundiced in the Bookmakers or Public House nursing a severely crap pint of beer and nudging up the nicotined reading glasses to wipe a tear away as for the 40th time in a row the letter box didn't rattle and a red A5 or A4 envelope nosedive wilfully onto the mat. The suicide rate for today would make interesting reading - as a distant relative of Emile Durkheim that is.
I mean does it MATTER if you never get one - does this boring tradition of 'romance' in the second week of the most depressing month (thanks St Gregory)really mean more than breath itself?
Difficult to be so cut and dry
Yes, fact, it is a greeting card holiday designed to make people spend money.
Yes, if you love someone, you don't need one day of the year to be romantic in gesture.
Yes, if we are overlooked, it can be a fatal blow to the heart and really, almost cause suicidal tendancies... (perhaps bringing back days of pain from school years - see your note above)...
I think in short, everyone wants to be loved.. and if you don't feel loved, being overlooked on international love day (ie, today) can really f*ck with your head. In short, the day should NEVER have been created...
[So does this mean we abolish xmas, easter, International Pirate Day???]
Yes to the
pirate day, no to the others.
The pirate dude who writes on this site occasionally might be offended by that comment
(what's his name??)
good
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