Single On Valentines Day

So you’re young, having fun… free as a bird… and then February 14^th creeps up on your calendar. Along it brings heart aches and you begin coughing red colour and start detesting heart shaped balloons, ‘Grapes are sour’ suddenly starts making sense to you and nauseating spells start overcoming your sanity. If you suffer from the above mentioned symptoms, then my friend you are beyond a doubt ‘single on Valentine’s Day’.

For people who are single, Valentine’s Day is the last thing they could ask for. A day dedicated for open declaration of love, for people in relationships receiving flowers and chocolates and what not, when everywhere you go you see red, couples smiling and having private moments in the public. Now who would want that? Definitely not somebody who’s alone and switching channels because nothing on TV can make him/her forget that they are all alone.

Being single on Valentine’s Day in my opinion is a bit overrated. See, what I don’t understand is why do we need somebody (and by that I mean your spouse/boyfriend/girlfriend) by our side to actually feel happy on the fateful day. The concept of Valentine’s Day is to show your loved ones that you care; it doesn’t mean that you have to be romantically involved with that somebody to make them your valentine.

So for my single friends out there here’s a Valentine’s Day idea … (Drums roll)… call over your friends, make a dinner for them, and make them feel special. Light candles around your house, and instead of frowning at those red balloons bring some over to your place, decorate it nicely and bake cookies; in short bring some love into your place. Don’t leave your family out since your parents deserve this show of love more than anyone else.

Lastly, don’t wait a whole year to do things for your loved ones, but fill your year with lots of these tiny little celebrations.