Happy Singles Awareness Day!!!

So us singles are looking to this day with scorn. Some of us are even displaying attitudes of bitterness and contempt... why?? Well here is why:

For all those couples out there who have today, and TODAY ONLY, to decorate their lovers bedroom with roses, heart shaped candy and heck, let's even take some of those roses and rip off their petals and shower the bed with them ... then later, when your lover comes home and sees that you have killed a rose or two to decorate their bed to create the mood to copulate, you two will make out a little and as you both fall onto the bed... you quickly wipe those petals off onto the floor while you are both taking your clothes off. What a waste of a rose to just simply create a mood, only to vaccuum it all up when you're done in an hour (or less, if you're THAT bad!). What happened to the days when the mere sight of your lover made you want to take off your clothes! Now you must go to the extent of buying chocolates and roses, LOTS of them for this day especially to prove your love. The more you buy for that one your love, the better your love for them is!...
Oh oh oh! And let's NOT forget the fact that the lady has bought expensive lingerie to wow you with! It might have taken her, oh let's say, 3 hours to find the RIGHT undergarment outfit for you... only to last a mere few seconds on her body then you quickly rip it off and it too ends up on the floor with those rose petals.

My take... Valentine's Day is a waste of time, energy and money! So much pressure to prove your love to one another! I know some couples who have opted out on the celebration of Valentine's Day. I applaud them for doing so. They claim that they don't need that day to prove they love each other. I ALSO know of someone who went through the trouble to book off a tiny plane to fly his girlfriend to some island nearby to be all romantic and shit. Yeeeeesh! (Loser)

Ok ok ok, I'm sure if someone did that to me I would be a little blown away. 'Coz it IS pretty cool. And I'm just enjoying being all bitter right now. But honestly, what would blow me away even more is if someone did that on some other day, not any particular day, and he would have done it 'just because'. Spontaneity is far more cool. If you can come up with that on a whim one day out of the blue, and show that you haven't put so much pressure on yourself to prove your love to me on a specific day - you just did it because you wanted to do something cool for me, then THAT would give me that WOAH feeling. No stress. Just a random act of romance. Now that's far more impressive than the thought of you running around stressing out a few days before today, wondering if you've bought enough stuff to prove that you really, really really, love me.

Upon doing a fun research on Valentines Day, I have come across a few interesting historical facts about this economical waste of a day:

* In Ancient Rome, February 14th was Lupercalia. The term came from the greek word lupus, meaning wolf - the connection was when the she-wolf nursed the two romans, Romulus and Remus, who later traditionally became the founders of Rome. Priests of a cult called Luperci would travel to the cave where legend said to be the place where this she-wolf reared Romulus and Remus. They would sacrifice two goats and a dog and scatter the blood in the streets to bring fertility and keep wolfs away from the fields.

* A Greek Historian, Plutarch, commented on Lupercalia:

Lupercalia, of which many write that it was anciently celebrated by shepherds, and has also some connection with the Arcadian Lycaea. At this time many of the noble youths and of the magistrates run up and down through the city naked, for sport and laughter striking those they meet with shaggy thongs. And many women of rank also purposely get in their way, and like children at school present their hands to be struck, believing that the pregnant will thus be helped in delivery, and the barren to pregnancy.

* On St. Valentine's Day in 1349, roughly 2000 Jews were burned to death by Christian mobs in Strasbourg. These mobs, led by nobles who owed large sums of to Jewish moneylenders, blamed the Jews for bringing in the Bubonic Plague.

* Saint Valentine refers to one or more martyred Saints of Ancient Rome. The reason for the martyr : for being a Christian.

Hmmmmmmmm... and from that we get cinnamon hearts, heart shaped chocolates and cupid!





Now wait a sec... arrows to your heart... to create love??? HUH?!

Have a good one!