By Kaktis
Oh, you're in for it now.
I hate St. Valentine's Day. I hate everything about it. Why can't you freely express that you care about someone every other day of the year? People need a specific day to show feelings? If anyone really cares about a person, I see no need to designate a specific day to show it. Not only that, but the concept of showing that you supposedly are so terribly attached to a person makes no sense to me, considering that you will almost inevitably grow apart in time. Really, the lack of sense behind the day just astounds me. The origin of Valentine's Day has no real relation to anything it is associated with now anyway. It was origionally a pagan thing to try and get wolves to not eat their sheep, that got changed by christians to not be pagan... It's true. The only way it was associated with "love" was because St. Valentine secretly married people when Christian marriages were outlawed... people somehow managed to contort that to what it's turned into. Not only does it have next to nothing to do with it's origins, it simply doesn't make any sense. The entire concept of giving someone meaningless gifts that don't even require thought or effort, (Hm... well, chocolate and flowers... those sound original, let's get that.) and telling them things that they could tell them any other day of the year, and doing things that have become simply obligation rather than any expression of feeling. People don't think to do anything nice for people the other 364 days a year, but when St. Valentine's Day rolls around, they think to themselves "Well, today I'm SUPPOSED to do something, so I will." And they do so, for no other reason than that. They've been told that it's what you do on St. Valentine's Day, and don't question it. They send stupid cards that mean nothing, and they give pointless gifts that mean less, and say empty words that could mean something, if it weren't for the fact that they are prompted by a feeling of obligation, which shouldn't be there. There should be no obligation to do things for people, simply because that is what's supposed to happen on that particular day. If there is a feeling of obligation, that is all the more reason to NOT say or do or give the meaningless things that has become custom. If one feels obligated, there is no feeling in the action, eliminating the entire purpose to begin with. I just don't see the point. It just makes no sense.
Right, I'm done now.