Don't worry, this isn't the image I plan to submit for V-day this year. I have something completely new, but just needs to be uploaded and coloured. Should take less than a month (hehehe, I'm joking). The image needs to be penned on Open Canvas.
But yes, I am indeed one of those curmudgeons who depises V-day. Not because I am never on the receiving end for roses and candies (save for one high school year, where I was so cynical I started suspecting that someone left me a box of chocs as a joke and subsequently recycled the accompnying card), but because I find the idea of 'super' loving someone for one day to be so ...superficial.
Some people seem to stress over what to buy their other (and probably better) halves. (Other people I know are worrying over what to buy their better....thirds...get the hint?). Just the other day I was watching G4, which is technically a male-orientated television channel, and they were running adverts for a website that allows people to buy flowers for someone in under 2 minutes. They feature 'real men' who were prior customers, and their drive-at-home point is that "it takes one thing off your mind". Seriously? If you find buying flowers for someone to be such a hassle, wouldn't it be better to....not buy flowers at all? Or not married/dating at all? Plus, flowers are such a generic gift that screams "no mental capacity was wasted on the choosing of this gift".
As for me, this year I am going to spend my V-Day alone. Though granted, I have to spend it alone since I have work, meetings and class from 8:00am until 8:45pm. People might give me sympathetic looks as I walk in solitude (ooh, such dramatic langauge!) on campus that day, but they can just go and shove it.
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