Today, it's like someone pressed pause on everything important in the world and all attention has suddenly turned to the giant gold plated elephant in your girlfriend's bedroom. Oh, and diamond encrusted, can't forget that. The most important thing anyone can do on Valentine's day is MAKE ABSOLUTELY SURE they have spent the most money they can to "prove" their devotion and love to their dearest Significant Other. Really? /facepalm
Today, sales of flowers and teddy bears and diamonds and gold and chocolates and dining out and limo rides and anything else cliche that people can think of are SKYROCKETING....and all the while, people in Haiti are still suffering. Women and men across teh globe are poised and ready to be incredibly pissed off if their SO doesn't meet their excessively high stanards, forgetting for the entire day that um...none of that matters at all.
The day before Valentine's Day, you loved your SO. They didnt have to prove it with money, gifts or waiting on you hand and foot. You simply loved them for who they are and what they meant to you. However, as soon as the clock strikes 12 and the day changes over, suddenly its a game. The game in typical (male-female) American cases goes like this:
Men start off losing. The day begins and they're already in trouble. They have to spend the entire day proving themselves with gifts and such just to get out of the dog house (since if they do nothing special, that's where they'll be, even though that was perfectly ok the day before). If they make the grade with the traditional gifts, they're safe. They can sleep in their own beds and maybe even get a smile from their wives or girlfriends. If they go for the expensive stuff, diamonds and red carpet treatment, they may even get the lingerie surprise that their gf/wife bought "them". But the amount of work that goes into this cannot possibly equal the prize at the end of the rainbow...especially since its probably not going to be any better or different than it was last saturday after your friend's cocktail party.
Such a stupid game we play, and why? Because we're told that's what we have to do on this exact day every year. They have us down to a science. It's mind control in the form of commercial advertising and tradition. They make it the "norm" the "thing celebrities are doing" and we all jump and say "how much!!?"
Ask the people in Haiti what they're doing for Valentine's Day. Go ahead, I dare you. This year, look your SO in the eye and say this:
"Well, I was going to do something for you for Valentine's Day, but instead I donated all that money to Haiti" (or some other unfortunate people or some humanitarian cause).
If they get mad at you for that, even a little bit...maybe its time you reevaluated if thats the kind of person you want to be with.
It's Valentine's Day. Grow a heart, not your wallet.
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