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As a confirmed singleton, I’m a detached observer of all this madness.
When I was a kid, Valentine’s Day was all about the big box of chocolates that Mom & Dad would give to me in the morning. I remember doing the “valentine exchange” thing with the other kids in the class, but it didn’t mean anything, because everybody got one from everybody else.
Other than that, I never really saw the point of all the frenzy about Valentine’s Day. In fact, since my mother taught me consumer literacy, from the time I was really little, I always saw Valentine’s Day as an excuse for a whole lot of marketing hype, to get people to spend a lot of money. Just like Christmas…Hallowe’en…weddings…births…
And, seeing all the people who are completely taken-in by all that hype, made me determined not to be amongst them. If you love someone, you don’t need to spend a lot of money to let them know, especially not just because a bunch of marketing people have decided that you’re SUPPOSED TO on this particular day.
Knocking yourself out to make everything PERFECT, just because it’s TRADITION, is setting up unreasonable expectations, which breed resentment. Especially when things don’t quite live up to those expectations, or to the visions shown in the ads.
So, on Valentine’s Day, I let everyone else be Charlie Brown or Sally or Linus. I’ll be Snoopy, hiding under the bridge, snarfing up the chocolates!
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