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A Valentine's Day Rant

Heart-shaped everything.

Bridget Keane
Feb 08, 2016
Manhattan College
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As I write this article, I am eating heart shaped chocolates with corny messages such as, "Make someone melt." The only way I'm making someone melt is if I set them on fire. Not to be pessimistic, but I don't see the point of Valentine's Day. Yes, this is coming from a single 18-year-old female college student, but the celebration of Valentine's Day is one that I've more recently grown not to understand.

Valentine's Day is a day of romance. A day for loved ones to profess and show their love for a significant other. However, if you really think about it, you shouldn't need a holiday in order to show or tell someone how much you love them and Valentine's Day shouldn't be the only day you do so. Everyday should be Valentine's Day if you really care about someone. A silly holiday shouldn't be an excuse for you to dust off your nicest shoes or put on your prettiest dress. You should do nice things for the ones you love without feeling required to do so because of Valentine's Day.

In the same way, Valentine's Day shouldn't be the one day you splurge on gifts and goodies for a loved one. Yes, Valentine's Day is a great excuse for someone to buy you a giant teddy bear, but you shouldn't need the excuse of a holiday to buy nice things for someone you love. Buying chocolates, roses, and teddy bears is the typical thing to do on Valentine's Day. These things are general and while yes, they are items that correspond with the holiday, they're impersonal and easily purchased at your local drugstore.

Valentine's Day makes people feel obliged to do certain things for the ones they love. If it takes a holiday for you to appreciate your significant other, then you're doing something wrong. Don't wait for a holiday to express your feelings to someone and definitely don't express your feelings just because everyone else is doing it.

Just hang in there everyone. Before we know it the chocolates will return to normal shapes and the giant teddy bears will disappear from shelves. Valentine's Day only comes once a year, so I guess I can grin and bear it and hope that maybe people will see that it shouldn't be something we feel obliged to celebrate.

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