Oh great, it’s time for Valentines Day. A time filled with sickly sweet people, overly cheesy cards, couples glued to the hip, and enough chocolates to give someone diabetes. The whole idea a day of loving your significant other and/or friends is a great idea, but what it has come to in this present day is just lame. The expectations people are held to on that day is ridiculous. You have to get the person you’re dating a gift and you’re best friend something, but if you get them something the rest of your friends will be upset so you have to get them something as well. That is just too much money blown on stupid stuff that will probably be in the trash by the end of the day. Anyways, shouldn’t you love you’re significant other every day of the year, not just on Valentines Day?

What’s even lamer is those stupid little cards with little pieces of candy attached that someone brings in and gives to all of their friends. Yes, I remember doing that in the 5^th grade and I thought I was lame then too.

Even though almost everyone celebrates Valentines Day, probably 90% of the people don’t even know the story behind it. That’s like celebrating Christmas and not knowing that it’s for Jesus, which I’m sure some people do. This made-up holiday is about a priest named St. Valentine in the third century in Rome who didn’t agree with the Emperor’s law that forbid marriage for young men because single men made better soldiers. St. Valentine then secretly performed marriages for people, but was later caught and killed. Just so everyone knows, you are celebrating a guy breaking a law and then getting killed for it. How touching.

The whole day makes the single people feel bad about being single. You’re single every other day of the year, but on Valentines Day, the fact that you’re single seems to be amplified and all you can see is couples everywhere. Well I’ve got some helpful advice for all the single people out there… there are always cats.