Blah on Valentines Day

[Guest]

Valentines Day...

one of the most commercialized Hollidays other than Christmas...

its when you are supposed to go out and spend a whole lot of money on someone who is probably dating you or talking to you just so you'll get them something.

And then for the single people..... its a day that makes you feel like the loneliest person in the world. I wonder how many suicides occur on V-Day?

Then there are those people who send themselves something and sign it "secret admirer" just to save face with their friends...

And for married people.... it only makes you think of all the romance you used to have (this is in Most situations... not all)

When I think of Valentines day.... I think of one event in my life... it was when I was 6 years old... and my bestfriend.. which was a boy... brought me flowers and candy. Back then things were so sweet.... now its all about how much you can spend on a dozen roses....
nothing ever stays simple..

Ok... just needed to vent lol

 

[Cheyenne]

Valentines Day...

And then for the single people..... its a day that makes you feel like the loneliest person in the world. I wonder how many suicides occur on V-Day?

Not my favorite day to be at work, I have to admit. All those roses being delivered to everyone else do get to you after awhile. I think I've perfected the "gee, those are lovely" comment, said with the fake smile, after years of practice.

 

[Gymble]

Those stupid motherfuckers, actually starting a holiday biased on the simple concept of love between two people. How dare they remind all the single men and women out there that they're alone?

Yeah, that right. It's all about how much you can spend on roses. I'll just tell that to the couples I see at restaurants and walking hand and hand down the street. The sixteen year olds doing on a real date for the first time - the sixty year olds who have been married for forty years of 'better or worse' - the married couple who are trying to manage through the 'worse'.

Jadedpast, you had one good Valentine. Would you be willing to toss away that one day because now the same date makes you lonely? Every Valentine day there are six/twenty/thirty/fifty-five years olds who finally give that simple gesture to a man or woman they love. You want to get rid of the bad, you have to get rid of the good too.

A day, any day or a holiday is about what you feel. If you can't look through the cards and stupid plastic, cupids to what people are feeling, and trying to express to one another. Yes, I understand why you'd have to take refuge in 'fake smiles'

 

[Jade]

That was so incredibly funny... I love this "jaded past" person I must say... she thinks a lot like me.

I too have wondered about the suicide statistics of days like Valentine's Day...

Anyway, I am going to buy some chocolate for my co-workers... perhaps if they are all getting some AND eating chocolate... then I can live vicariously through them until I am doing the same.

 

[Never]

I have a lady friend of mine at work who lives alone. Her husband died many years ago and she's not close to her family. I'm going to be asking her out to dinner on V-Day.

I think of Valentine's Day as just a reminder, there are other people out there. People you care about but don't always show that too as much as you should.

I'm agreeing with Gymble on this (and it's not because I am related to Gymble) a day is what you make of it. I've spent most Valentine's days pining away for what I don't have. I'm going to spend this one celebrating what I do have.
(And the self-delusions continue)

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Did I dream this belief?
Or did I believe this dream?

 

[carini]

I've hated Valentines day for a while now cause that was the day my first girlfirned and i broke up

 

[Xander]

You know, I dont care anymore. I think that I've only had like one date on an actual V-day ever.
I'm perfectly happy with what I got the rest of the year. Why "hang" myself in the details of one day.

 

[Laurel]

13 years ago, on Valentine's Day (well, the week of Valentine's Day, anyhow), Manu & I met and my whole life changed (for the better, too).

 

[Never]

13 years ago, on Valentine's Day... I was 6 years old.

Just thought I'd add that.

 

[Angelus]

I don't really see what the point of Valentine's Day is. All it is is a reason for card companies, florists and every other company involved to make money. It has turned into a total sham and it is a waste of time- I mean you have to spend hundreds of dollars to show how much you love your partner, how stupid is that?

 

[Never]

Yes, why don't you tell that to your s/o the next time they want to go out for a Valentine's dinner?

 

[Laurel]

13 years ago, on Valentine's Day... I was 6 years old.

Just thought I'd add that.

Thanks for adding that.

 

[Never]

Laurel,
You're old enough to be my attractive, older babysitter. I should tell my 'rents to send you cheques for all the quality time I spend on your porn site and out of trouble.

 

[Laurel]

Laurel,
You're old enough to be my attractive, older babysitter.

Ah! I suppose that's better than being your unattractive, older babysitter, though I could be wrong.

I should tell my 'rents to send you cheques for all the quality time I spend on your porn site and out of trouble.

I agree. "Mom & Dad, there's this really fab porn site with incest sex stories and naked pics. I spend all my time there - no, not submitting stories, just trolling for babes on their Bulletin Board. Anyhow, I think you need to send them a nice fat monthly check. Whattdya say?!"

 

[Laurel]

I don't really see what the point of Valentine's Day is. All it is is a reason for card companies, florists and every other company involved to make money. It has turned into a total sham and it is a waste of time- I mean you have to spend hundreds of dollars to show how much you love your partner, how stupid is that?

I agree totally. The whole holiday thing is bogus. Puts too much pressure on people. You should give gifts to each other all the time, not just on holidays. Not expensive stuff...just fun things to let the other one know you're thinking of them. Cards. Silly plastic smilies. Candy. Manu & I have a piece of note paper on which one of us wrote "whoever finds this is a cutiepie", and we take turns hiding it in each other's stuff. I found it in my shoe the other day, so I put it in his sock drawer. It's silly, but it gives me tummy warmies when I find it. We don't ever talk about it...he'll hide it for me to find, I'll find it & get all happy, and then I'll hide it for him to find. It's little stuff like that that makes the difference for me.

 

[Never]

Laurel:
"I agree. "Mom & Dad, there's this really fab porn site with incest sex stories and naked pics. I spend all my time there - no, not submitting stories, just trolling for babes on their Bulletin Board. Anyhow, I think you need to send them a nice fat monthly check. Whattdya say?!"

You don't really think I speak like that, do you?
Hay, wait a second, I do more than troll for babes on the site; I contribute meaningless stuff 'n stuff like that. The trolling's just a by-product of all the.. you know, 'relevant topics' I discuss. Why just yesterday, I read a thread about us having a new president - he's a republican I think. And, ah...
Isn't it way past your bedtime?

 

[Siren]

Ah shit Laurel that is the singularly most romantic thing I have heard .....

 

[cheekyminx]

Laurel that has to be one of the cutest things I have heard..and a good idea too.

 

[Flagg]

Those stupid motherfuckers, actually starting a holiday biased on the simple concept of love between two people. How dare they remind all the single men and women out there that they're alone?

LOL! I sense a lot of bitterness on the boards these days!

I like Valentines Day because it gave me an excuse to buy my girlfriend a weekend in Paris. Don't worry though - while I'm drinking Champagne in the Quartier Latin, I'll be thinking of all you lonely souls.

Can I get any more smug d'ya think?

 

[Jade]

Can I get any more smug d'ya think?

Hmmm... that's a toughie...

 

[Naked Hunny]

wow whered Flagg come from?