Valentine's Day is nearly hear and I'm single... and I could honestly care less one way or the other. I remember the origional reason it's celebrated: in honor of St. Valentine, of course. Well, okay, it's not an actual 100% for-sure which St. Valentine the holiday celebrates and is not celebrated by all on February 14th. Apparrently, the Eastern Orthodox Church celebrates this holiday in early July on the 6th. Go figure.
Anywho, getting back to my origional point, Valentine's Day has, for many, become just another overly-hyped mass-consumer shopping event to see who can get the best deals on the best gifts and holiday parafernalia before said holiday comes. If you ask me, it's just another excuse to go on a spending spree at all the latest sales for gifts and crap that you wouldn't think or even dream of buying any other day of the year and to me, that's kind of pointless and depressing. I mean, if you realy love that special someone, why don't you try and do something nice like flowers, cards or chocolates every day? Why wait until a holiday or their birthday or something like that? Why not just show them how you feel right now? In fact, why not just put down that mouse and keypad and get out and do something with them right now? Is that really so hard to do on a regular non-holiday day? Is that too much to ask?
If you want my advise, don't go out and buy a card and waste five bucks on something you could make just as easily in under five to ten minutes. If you really want to show someone you care, give them something they'll actually apreciate. Sure, there are good gifts out there you can buy if have the money, but try and make something with your own two hands. Put your heart into it (making it, I mean).
Okay, there's my holiday commercialization rant for the day. Stay tuned for the next post (which, hopefully, is soon).
Until then, have a great Valentine's Day!
JAck out
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