It is not that I am
against the whole idea of love. I am just against the cheesy, mushy,
over-the-top show-off that people think is love and that is the reason why I am
against the Valentine Culture. They say
February is the month of love and the fourteenth of February, the Valentine's Day
is the day of love; what I fail to understand is how love can be a calendarized
event. It has been like the kind of things that you either love or hate but
just cannot stay away from it. All in all this whole Valentine Culture has done more harm than good.
First of all let's
about the individuals that have been termed as the singles. There are different categories of the singles. There are some singles
ones who are indifferent to this day. Their only connection to this day is
helping their friends who are in a relationship, those termed as the couples, to pick out gifts for their
companions and to give them as much advice as they possibly can about what to
buy, what not to buy, where to go and such stuffs which happens to be the
biggest dilemma of the couples at the
moment. Then there are some singles that
have been left with a sense of self-loathing for having nobody to celebrate it
with because of this Valentine Culture.
They may choose to go out with their other single
friends or there is always booze to get them through the day. Then there
are some singles who want so badly to
jump from being a single to being a couple that they believe that the
fourteenth of February is a day to propose their love, regardless of what they
feel for the person they are proposing their love to. For instance, a couple of
people dating each other and enjoying their company and maybe even in the
process of falling in love may feel the pressure of this day and rush into
relationships they might not have otherwise been ready for.
