Valentines Day

So Valentines day is coming up, or past depending on when you read this. It's another holiday people either love or hate. I personally like it. Grant it, it celebrates an idea that we should practice every day. Most holidays are like that, they celebrate something we should be doing all the time. We should give thanks everyday instead of Thanksgiving, thank our moms on Mothers day, thank our fathers on Fathers day, and dress up and beg strangers for candy on Halloween.....OK, maybe not the last one. I personally like Valentines day for what it is. I like the idea of celebrating the idea of love and what love is and what love should be. What can I say, I'm a hopeless romantic. Well, I'm at least hopeless, so I'm halfway there .I've never had that person to celebrate it with, and I'm pretty sure I'll never will, so be it.

What I find funny is how many people say that they hate the holiday. Men hate the idea of spending money on a Hallmark holiday for little return. That does make sense. Think about it. men buy candy, cards, flowers, dinner, movie and jewelry for their significant other and in return, they hope for sex. That idea is funny because it kind of glorifies the idea that men like sex and women like the gifts. I've always heard that women like sex, but if women like sex, why do they make men jump through hoops to get it? Women get everything and all men get is the sex. Doesn't seem like a good return on investment to me. It's a woman's holiday, we can we do. Maybe it's the idea of making their S/O happy. Perhaps, but again, why spend the money for something you can get for little or no money. Perhaps men need their own holiday that make women go out of their way to make their men happy. There is sort of one now, but something official that can be written on a calendar or cards can be made celebrating it.

We dread this holiday, but couples still go through with it. Why? Most people hate it but still go through with it. I think people do it because, beyond all that we say and think, we still like Love. We love showing the world that we don't care about some ideas, but we do it because we like doing nice things to each other and that smile on the person we love. We love the hug and the kiss. We love that look in the person we love knowing that the person we're looking at feels the way we feel about them. We love that moment of being with someone you love and ignoring the rest of the world. It's not the end result of love making, it's the path of love in general.

I look at couple that are in love and to me, it's cool. That connection between two people and I wish I had that. I also look at people who lost love and remind them that they have had it, and it's better than not ever having it. Then I look at my mom. She lost the one love of her life and I can never understand the heart break of losing that person. To me, love is fantastic. We all want it, we will do anything for it, some treasure it, some waste it. You can't buy it, but we spend money for those words "I Love You". We jump though hoops for that moment. People should cherish it more, because there are some who don't have now, had it and lost it, and those who have never had it.

Then again, what do I know? I'm a moron.....and I'm single, ladies.