Do We Really Need Valentine’s Day?

Yes, you heard me. I am one of the ones that see the purpose of having Valentine’s Day. I mean do we really need another depressing holiday, another reason for people to commit suicide for being alone when everybody else is celebrating with their families and friends? Do we need a certain day in February to tell the person next to you that you love her/him? Do you need to see red hearts everywhere to remember what your heart feels? Do you need this day to remind you that you are alone? Do you need February 14th to rub it in? I guess not.

So I am not saying to boycott the infamous holiday like people are starting to do because now it’s cool to be anti-Valentine’s. I am just saying that we need some reservation, some calm about all of this. After all our entire entire world is just a marketing stunt. I know we are all big consumers but do we really need for someone to invent holidays that celebrate our consumerism. It is our curse but we got to have the free will of saying NO sometimes. We got to have the courage and dignity of saying: “That’s enough. You bomb us with your messages everyday. Buy this, buy that, you should be this skinny, that hat is not cool, eat this and so on. We will not be told when to celebrate love. We will do this when we feel like it. We will give presents when we want to. Everyday even, if it is possible. We will say more I love you’s whenever it feels natural. We will search for our soul mates non any day of the year not just on the 14th of February.” Tell them that and most of all be sure to do that and you will feel better and free. You will not get stressed out of your mind on that day. It is just a day like other days. No need for you to get all excited.  Think of the ones that have a birthday on that day. How do they feel? They should give presents on their birthday? Will someone remember their birthday or not?

Think about these things and let me know how it went.