Valentine's, Shmalentine's.

[DarkPrincesa]

I love presents and any reason/excuse to give and get them makes me happy. I mean I know you can always give presents to those you love.... but i just love holidays in general. I don’t celebrate too much or put a lot of pressure on it... and this year I don’t think we are doing anything because money is tight and the wedding is coming up... but commercialized or not I just like celebrating.  

[Love.Your.Hate.]

The Shadow Puppet

Like after easter, I got this HUGE fuzzy blue bunny. He's about 5 feet tall, so as big as me. For about 10 dollars. whee

Lucky.

Where is it? Because I wouldn't be able to leave it in my room when I sleep. sweatdrop I guess in the dark it would look like a human form, which would creep me the ******** out when I wake up at 2 in the morning and forget that it's there.  

[Ramen With Tofu]

I've been boycotting v-day as long as I can remember.
it's a stupid holiday. If you really love someone why only show them one day a year.

not to mention I have had a crappy day every valentine's day. I always had school where bad things happened to me, or if I was home... well that's bad enough...

though getting chocolate is never bad.... the "heart" shaped boxes I could do with out though.

 

[-Resurrected Writer-]

I neither hate it nor love it - I just pass through it like it's a normal day... albeit a normal day with guys trying to be "sweet" in attempt to get laid rolleyes  

[Lady Nasia Estelle]

I tend to like valentines day only if i have someone to be with, even them I tend to goth it up so to speak, the boxes I draw a morbidly cute picture on and tell them in a creepy way how much I love them, as for the stuff i get, usually candy is gone in the first day or so and the boxes become dark monuments to past loves....sometimes I burn them. Once and a while i'll get stuffed animals or something and deck them out in black gothiness.

 

[EvFaerAshlynn]

I like Valentines Day. Sort of.

I see it as a day to drown in my romantic side. I also think it's a good time to not be embarrased about anything. I like the chocolate, I like the sentiment... but I get a little depressed thinking about all the single people I know, and how fragile love is, and how fragile everything is. It's a lovely time, but then again it's slightly depressing.  

[Her Cyanide--]

I agree that it is sort of over done but I am excited for this one because it's going to be the very first valentines day I have with someone I actually love. whee  

[-Isel-]

People seem to have the misconception that people in love only use Valentine's Day to show them they love their partner and exclude all other days.

Which, frankly, is bullshit. Many people who are in love show it on a daily basis, and just use Valentine's Day as a chance to buy things with hearts on them due to how easy it is to find such things, and they use it as an excuse as to why they shower their partners with love every day.

I know I go most days without an excuse, I just am romantic anyway. Valentine's Day gives me a chance to say "Hey, I'm now acting this way ALSO because it's Valentine's Day".

Am I being confusing?  

[Her Cyanide--]

Isel

People seem to have the misconception that people in love only use Valentine's Day to show them they love their partner and exclude all other days.

Which, frankly, is bullshit. Many people who are in love show it on a daily basis, and just use Valentine's Day as a chance to buy things with hearts on them due to how easy it is to find such things, and they use it as an excuse as to why they shower their partners with love every day.

I know I go most days without an excuse, I just am romantic anyway. Valentine's Day gives me a chance to say "Hey, I'm now acting this way ALSO because it's Valentine's Day".

Am I being confusing?

I wish my boyfriend were like that. I mean I know he loves me but he doesn't always go out of his way to show it. D:  

[Lady Nasia Estelle]

I don't think there should be a designated day to be romantic, a good man would remind a woman at the very least once a month how sweet he can be, i mean buy her something, take her on a date thats out of the way, somewhere where you can be alone, and DO NOT hint at sex. It's nice to just be together sometimes.

 

[Mz.Wiggles]

I like it this year.
I don't have to sit at home give a half smile when my PARENTS give me a box of chacolates when no one else would.
This year I have someone to spend it with.
I can laugh at the girls who don't like they did to me.
I don't like the chacolates though even though I'd enjoy getting then.
I just hate bitting into mystery chacolate.
It much reminds me of harry potters jelly beans.
You have to see what's inside before biting.

 

[Veruniel]

Nyed

I dont need a day set aside to remind me to cherish and love the ones who love me

I feel exactly the same way. Maybe it's good in a way to have special days that remind people to shower their friends with affection (though it'd be nice if the focus wasn't so much on buying stuff), but I prefer to do random nice things for no reason at all. Aside from basic affection, that is. It means so much more when you get your sweetie a box of fudges on a random Wednesday or make them a beautiful wildflower bouquet that costs nothing.

Nyed

and lets face it they commericalize the hell out of every holiday, not just valentines day

Too true. I won't even start talking about Christmas. xp  

[Mage The Red]

Okay, I agree with all of you here... but, here's my lonely, more jealous than anything, and possibly angry opinion.

VALENTINE'S DAY SUCKS ROTTEN, SHITRIDDEN, a** STUFFED DONKEY BALLS!

You know why? You see, every year, I have this little jealousy thing that makes me jealous when people would get a kind gesture of a gift from someone else, while I sit around, hoping someone would do the same for me. Yeah, that's a wish that shall never come true.

So, my opinion of the holiday is of that I am very mad at most people for leaving me in the dark while the rest of the idiots got something. I don't know why this happened to me, but it just did. It sucked complete a** every time. It will probably suck this year, too. Well, I don't care. <******** you, Valentine's day. ******** you.  

[Veruniel]

Isel

DR490N

eh. i'm just going to go see pan's labyrinth with the girlfriend for valentines day. the reasons given for it these days are false, the story of 'saint valentine' is false. it began as a roman and greek pagan holiday. i hate the fact that christianity has made holidays commercialized and hollow.

Everyone says that Christianity has changed our holidays. Seriously, not every holiday was pagan, and not everything about Paganism was good.

Christianity did incorporate (and alter) a lot of pagan festivals, though, and Valentine's Day was one of them. Keeping the old pagan holidays and changing their focus as little as possible was a useful way of attracting converts, because it meant people could adopt a new religion without giving up all their old customs.

St. Valentine does seem to have been a real person (or possibly multiple real people — there were three Christian martyrs named Valentine in Rome in the late 3rd century, when the legend began). The Golden Legend, a collection of stories of saints' lives which was compiled around 1260, describes a St Valentine refusing to deny Christ before the emperor Claudius and getting his head chopped off for it.

People started associating St. Valentine's feast day with romantic love in the late middle ages, around the same time courtly love and troubadour poetry became all the rage.

But people weren't buying candy hearts left and right back then. It isn't Christianity that commercialised these holidays. It was greedy modern retail corporations.  

[-Isel-]

Miss.Nanners

Isel

People seem to have the misconception that people in love only use Valentine's Day to show them they love their partner and exclude all other days.

Which, frankly, is bullshit. Many people who are in love show it on a daily basis, and just use Valentine's Day as a chance to buy things with hearts on them due to how easy it is to find such things, and they use it as an excuse as to why they shower their partners with love every day.

I know I go most days without an excuse, I just am romantic anyway. Valentine's Day gives me a chance to say "Hey, I'm now acting this way ALSO because it's Valentine's Day".

Am I being confusing?

I wish my boyfriend were like that. I mean I know he loves me but he doesn't always go out of his way to show it. D:

I try to make her happy, always.

Every hour of every day. It's great, and I like making her happy.

Though, I still feel like I'm not doing enough... because there's days when she's sad and I can't fix it.