Why do we all Hate Valentines Day?

Why do we all Hate Valentine’s Day?

Normally when a holiday comes around everyone gets excited. It’s supposed to be a joyous time spent with friends and family. So what happened with Valentine’s Day? A lot of people will complain about Valentine’s Day. People act like it’s all in bad spirit and we don’t understand why we pay it so much attention. Why is this?

 

I’ll start with my own opinions on Valentine’s Day. Meh. I don’t really care, in fact most years I don’t even notice it. It’ll be days after and someone will mention it and I’ll finally be paying attention. So while I don’t particularly like it, I don’t have the motivation to completely despise it like a lot of people do. It’s just kind of there.

 

The most common complaint about Valentine’s Day is that is makes people who have no Valentine feel lonely. This is true, while some of us are not bothered about not having a date I can see how you could find it quite a lonely time, particularly if you’d had a recent break up or rejection. The issue with this argument is that all holidays can be lonely. Someone in a bad place or after suffering recent loss would find other Holiday’s just as lonely. In fact you could argue Valentine’s Day isn’t even the worst time of year for feeling lonely. Christmas and New Year are lonelier for more people due to more people not only caring, but expecting to enjoy Christmas and New Year. Therefore hating Valentine’s Day for being a lonely time for people is unfair as all holidays can be just as lonely.

 

Another argument is that it puts pressure on people who have to buy gifts or such things for someone. Then again I can imagine a lot of people comparing this with someone saying they can’t fit all their £20 notes in their wallet. I’d personally say though that buying gifts for someone is a practise again undertaken at Christmas but also Birthdays. So why is Valentine’s Day so much worse?

 

It is extremely commercialised. Again have you ever been around for any other Holiday? Christmas merchandise starts appearing in around October time. Every holiday has been commercialised, it’s not like you are forced to waste all your money on random Valentine’s Day themed junk. There is an added bonus of extremely cheap chocolate available in the day after, since shops need to get rid of all their heart shaped stuff. Anyone who loves a bargain should be thrilled at this. Valentine’s Day merchandise can be used all year round as it’s a lot of chocolate. It’s not like all those cheap Christmas cards that shops have to dispose of.

 

If Valentine’s Day is there for you to be romantic and loving to your partner shouldn’t you be like that all year round? Yes you probably should, but you already probably are. The point of Christmas for a lot of people is to be kind and joyous is it not? Shouldn’t you be like that all year too? I think holidays are meant to be a time where we can relax and not worry about everything.

 

Valentine’s Day doesn’t have a religious reason for existing like Christmas and Easter. So? It’s not like most of you look forward to Christmas because it’s your opportunity to celebrate the birth of Jesus Christ. You look forward to all that Christmas tradition garbage. So this argument is pretty ridiculous. Halloween if I’m not mistaken was originally a time to ward off evil spirits. I don’t take part in Halloween and the spirits have never come for me.

 

Everyone loves Halloween. You don’t hear complaints about it like you do with Valentine’s Day. Strange considering they are basically the same, just with a slightly different coat of paint. During Halloween the emotion of fear is highly prevalent, during Valentine’s Day its love instead. So both have a highly prevalent emotion. Both are heavily commercialised. In both you are supposed to receive sweet edible things. Swap out Jack-o-Lanterns for heart and change all the black to pink and you’ve completely switched the two. The main difference is on Valentine’s Day I don’t get annoying Children knocking on my door practically begging for sweets. The look on their faces when I gave them apples as a healthy alternative.

 

I don’t get where the hatred comes from. Valentine’s Day is just the same as any other Holiday and I have the same opinion on it as I do with other Holiday’s as in I don’t really care. Is it because it’s a more exclusive Holiday for people who are dating. That’s pretty bitter. If it doesn’t involve you then do you have any reason to care about it at all? It literally makes no difference to you what so ever.

 

So what does all this mean? It’s simple, you should treat Valentine’s Day like I do. Fail to notice its existence and go to comicon instead. Anyone in Telford look out for me, I’ll be dressed as Professor Layton. So on a finishing note, all of you who don’t care about Valentine’s Day have a fun day. All you people who do care but are single, enjoy your tub of ice-cream and all you guys out there who have a special lady, have fun being dragged along to Fifty Shades of Grey.