Happy Valentine's day peeps!
Funny but true, a simple wish like this could actually trigger different kinds of reactions from people.
Some will be happy and wishes it back.
Some will say "We can always show our love everyday, not only on Valentine's day."
Some will say "I'm having a forever alone Valentine's day."
Okay peeps, these are all just general typical examples - I am not pointing fingers and if you kinda think that you fit in any of those category, well it's a coincidence really. ;)
There are a lot more examples which I am too lazy to mention, because my focus is on the 2nd example, which is this one.
The most typical comment.
"We can show our love everyday, not only on Valentine's day."
Yeah, that's absolutely true, but how I wish the people who said that actually did that. Sometimes I think they are saying it just because:
1) They are foreveralone like me.
2) They are not the romantic type.
3) They want to save on the budget.
4) They are the
Grinch of Valentine.
5) All of the above
6) None of the above
Erm.. Just a curious question here: what's wrong with making Valentine's day more special than usual? Yeah, I know, you can show your love to your partner everyday, but what's wrong with being significant on a special day?
You can show your love everyday, every single day, every second of your life to your partner, but to make today special, I do not expect you to NOT show your love to your partner on every other day.
Show your love everyday, just make it more SIGNIFICANT today. How hard is that?
However, I do not force you to celebrate it, but why be so sarcastic about those who's celebrating it or become a Valentine's Grinch by telling your partner "Ah, I don't want to buy you anything today because I do not believe in showing love on Valentine's day, I love you everyday not only on Valentine's."
Hey. You said you have to show love everyday but why not today? Valentine's day is also one of the 365 or 366 days in a year so why purposely NOT showing love today? Ah. Just admit it. You're not romantic. :P
Let me ask you, we become one day older every single day, so why not we celebrate our birthday every single day? Why we only acknowledge we are older during our birthday but not on other days? I could be 23 years 11 month old but I still see myself as 23 years old and only acknowledge that I am 24 when my birthday arrives.
Why? Simple. Because it's significant.
Why do we celebrate Teachers' day on 16th May every year? Why we need celebrate it although we can be good student to our teacher every other day of the year?
Why? Simple. Because it's significant.
Why we celebrate Mother's day, Father's day on one day when we can show our love to our parents on any other day?
Why? Simple. Because it's significant.
So, if you celebrate any of the days above but when it comes to Valentine's you give me reason like "We can show our love everyday," "Ah, no point lah" or any of these type of comments, you are a hypocrite.
Because the real reason you're not celebrating it is something else and not because "you can always show love on any other day." *rolls eyes*
And as human, yes, we can love everyday, we can show our appreciation everyday, but most of the times we tend to take it for granted and we always need to be reminded.
So special day like this is one way to remind us how special or significant someone is in our lives.
As humans, sometimes we always need to be reminded, so Valentine's day is a day for you to reflect back and remind yourself about those you love and you should use this opportunity to tell them how much they mean to you.
Last but not least,
Happy Valentine's day again! ;)
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