The UPSIDE to Valentine's Day

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Don't let it get to you. I truly believe that there are real advantages to being single right now:

1. No obligation to make some forced, commercialized effort to be romantic. That ought to especially make aspies grateful.

2. If V day does nothing but remind you of your singleness, imagine how many other singles it's gonna do that to! If it makes you wish you had a date, well there you go. There's probably going to be a higher proportion of singles out there being more willing to date.

3. You get to stick it to society by not celebrating its holiday. Face it, if you have a girlfriend or boyfriend, no matter how cynical one of you or both of you might be to the holiday, it would be kind of a jerk thing to not do anything for it. Yay, you don't have to. You have 364 days now to get a date and make a REAL romantic gesture. One that's genuine.

4. You save MONEY.

5. You save possible awkwardness (like, if were in that sort of dating sort of not phase)

6.You have an opportunity to let potential dates know you are single ("hey, how was your v-day?-----"oh, I didn't do anything for it. What did you do?"----"oh, same here. It's not like I'm dating anyone"-----"Oh really...." )


So to all you singles out there saying "love sucks" or Valentines Day is such a crock---I agree! But I also have come to not really care! If commercialized and packaged feelings suck, I'm all the better for not having to worry about it right now. And despite how much love can suck, it's pretty awesome at times as well---so I'm glad I don't have to cheapen it with generic flowers and chocolate boxes and teddy bear crap. Girls want those stuff, but they only want it because you'd be a jerk not to get something for your girlfriend. Thankfully, I don't have to worry about it.

but you're still alone....

honestly, it's a mixed bag all around. The whole holiday has been hyped out of recognition, and making people feel bad just so they'll shell out some smackers in this economy is disingenuous (dang, I love spell check... at best.

Yeah, that's a big one...


Well I get the idea that valentines day got the same treatment as christmas... what with all the commercialization...

That said, I still hate the holiday because people get all in my face about being single... Seriously, being single would almost be tolerable if I didn't have to deal with couples being all condescending towards me...

There is no day in which I am happier to be single than Valentine's Day.

I just look at it from a kid's perspective.

Get your own box of candy and chow down!!

It didn't occur to me until this second, that it's valentines day

Yeah, and after it's over with, the prices will drop!!

Let's be honest: All this bashing against V-day from singles here is due to jealousy.

Yes it's expensive, yes it's silly , yes it's marketing, yes it's commercial ....

yet most people really enjoy it and enjoy its traditions. If it wasn't the case then it wouldn't be one of the widest holidays ever across the globe.

Well, yesterday was Friday the 13th, and no sign of Jason, so I can get through this too. And yeah, I'm glad that I'm not "obligated" to buy some cheesy Valentine stuff... I am definitely NOT jealous of that.

The Cybermen must survive. WE WILL SURVIVE.

Jealous?

Well, I guess there is upsides to being single. Still, I wish I had someone. There is just so much pressure to have someone today.

Actually I take that back a little; it was annoying seeing more couples walking around in town than usual. But I definitely see selfish upsides to it.

Envious to be more accurate....

I got a love heart necklace with a diamond in it and he come up to me and behind his back was a red rose.

I'll admit I am indeed envious of someone in a good relationship---but since I ain't in one, I'm gonna focus on the benefits of singleness. And I ain't gonna go make an effort to get a girl just because she's there, I'm gonna make sure she's a good one before I date her. At this point in my life I fortunately am able to be more picky than I used to be.

Last night my mum had us all watching the Top 100 Love Songs on 4Music. Most of the songs were SO rubbish, but some of them were quite good. But before they got to the top 5 I got bored and started watching videos on YouTube. I ALMOST managed not to cry at any songs, but I ended up crying over that new Taylor Swift song. For some reason.

I was supposed to be avoiding tacky VDay stuff on TV, LOL.