Valentine *cough cough* International Single Awareness Day

Valentine’s day is a day to celebrate love, hope & alleged romance. A day to tell our loved ones how much they mean to us.  But what happens with all those who just broke up with their partners? Those who were deceived and do not want to trust in love again?  What happens with all those people who are still searching for their soul mate despite years and years of unfruitful searching? Or those who are desperate to find someone to love because they do believe in love.  What happens to those who wait in hope that this year their “Valentine” will finally realize that they love them… but they won’t; and they will spend another year alone waiting in hope with a sour smile in their faces.

Honestly, Valentine ’s day might have started as a day to celebrate love but nowadays it has become another day to force people to go out of their way for things that they don’t need or they don’t want to buy in order to express their love.  Most men know that they will be in trouble if they don’t buy an expensive present for their girl.  So, they buy an expensive present, not as an expression of their love, but as a way to "buy" their way out of trouble.  Like in Monopoly, they are buying their “get out of jail” cards.

Please don't take me wrong, I'm not bitter in the least, I am a romantic person, a dreamy girl (sometimes) who is still looking for her happy ever after.  I believe(d) in love.  but I hate to see how Valentine’s day is just such an overly famous day for all the wrong reasons.  Not just that, but I see my single friends, those who by choice or force are alone and I feel sorry for them on Valentine’s day.  Not because they are single, oh no!  I feel sorry because all the ones who are in couples make them feel as if they were missing something just because they get a silly little card and a box of chocolates on Valentine’s Day.
Because if I say that I hate Valentine’s Day, most people automatically will think that I am either jealous or I am just having a very rough period in my love life.  which might be true, but most people do not understand how someone who is happy in a relationship cannot like and look forward to Valentine’s Day just to get presents ...WHY!

1. I never know what to buy a guy as a Valentine’s present.
2. It has been horrible every time I have been single.  All my friends in a relationship had something special planned for February 14^thand they felt sorry for me if I said I was staying in watching TV or reading a book.  It didn’t bother me at all staying in like any other day, but I felt humiliated so i buy myself Icecream every year regardless.
3. When I have been in a relationship the presents have rarely been up to romantic standards.  I am a very romantic person.  I expect Prince charming to bring the moon down for me.  So IF he doesn't (which I know he won't)… that is disheartening.  The worst part is having to pretend to be pleasantly surprised and thankful that he remembered Valentine’s day in the first place. 
4. There are so many beautiful poems in classic literature that they put in these joke cards. Especially if you come to the realization that you won't be in a relationship with this person in 5 years and that it's all bullshit anyways.
5. All the couples you know look so in love on Valentine’s day that it sucks!  You know he is double timing your friend, but you don’t say anything because she's "so in love with him", and anyway it is not your business.  But all the display pics of false perfect love just want to make you throw up.  You know that later that night they will be arguing again about something stupid... been there done that 
6. I hate to hear the competitiveness between girls on Valentine’s Day.  Someone boasting about their enormous bouquet of flowers, while the other one claims that her man really loves her because he never takes her out but tonight they are going to the best restaurant in the city.  Yet he never takes her out except on Valentine’s Day, and she boasts...  Poor chic!
7. If you are not in a relationship and you go out with a girlfriend on Valentine’s Day, the odds are that anyone who sees you will think you are a lesbian... fucking Cliche don't!
8. Valentine’s Day makes men do stupid things like shaving the hair on their back in a heart shape. #Thatsfunnny. I need to meet a man like that just to laugh at him!
9. Most men are not very romantic and you will end up disappointed but you’ll boast about your present any given opportunity you get anyway.  It's sad. I just don't agree with it.

Spread your legs & Spread Love everyday of the year that's what i say :)

Why MUST we celebrate love one day a year?

In my ideal world I would like to be romanced every single day of the year.  I would like to feel loved and needed every day, not just one silly day in the calendar.  Why not celebrate love every time we can? I don’t need a special day or a special occasion to tell my boy that I love him that I am head over heels about him.    I don’t need someone to remind me in the calendar that it is time to send him a loving card or a message.  He doesn’t need a day marked in the calendar to make me feel special. Everyday is special in my house ;)... unless we're arguing then... hmmm