Personally, I find Valentine's Day outplayed and overrated. Comment on it if you want, but I find the ideals and expectations are now far too out of hand rather than giving someone special a token of your love and gratitude. Valentine's Day used to be cute when I was younger.
Remember when everyone in the class would go around passing cartoon characterized cards with a lollipop attached to it? Man, were those the days. Valentine's Day since then has never really been near and dear to my heart, and it's not because I have been single since.
The problem with Valentine's Day is that it is plastered over social media. Each day I scroll through Twitter and find all these tweets with the hashtag "Relationship Goals." Like what? Your goal in your relationship is to get the biggest and most expensive gift so you can plaster it on Twitter? Is that what love is these days?
All these expensive gifts and lingerie just characterize Valentine's Day as another smaller Christmas, which in itself has begun to lose its meaning. I just truly believe that the small simple tokens such as a lollipop mean more than dumping out your wallet for your significant other. I do realize that not all couples are like this, but seeing post after post of hundreds of thousands of dollars spent on a nice piece of jewelry makes my own wallet cringe.
I miss the days when Valentine's Day was simple and was celebrated by all. Now, you either hate your life while being surrounded by pink hearts and PDA (public display of affection) couples, or are madly in love with your significant other with the smell of roses in the air. When Valentine's Day was more widely celebrated as when we were kids, I honestly could feel the love, whether friendly or romantic, in the air.
The ideas behind love have also shifted. In this generation, I truly believe that millennials have disrupted the concept of love as being more materialistic and being "goals" rather than making it your own. The idea of love used to be the little things, and in some cases of a relationship as a millennial, it is. Yet even so, Valentine's Day should be a day of love measured in the actions that we do, rather than the amount of money we spend on our significant other.
Personally, I do not think I will ever be a fan of Valentine's Day because instead of spending each day with the people that you love, it focuses on a singular day of materialistic objects to pronounce love for one another.
