Valentine's Day

What does Valentine’s Day really celebrate? Does it celebrate couples everywhere? Isn’t your boyfriend or girlfriend suppose to express their love and appreciation everyday? Not just one day a year? Many people suggest that Valentine’s Day is just another commercial holiday where corporations and companies profit off of corny and cliché couples who buy into “true love.” If you think about it, isn’t “love” suppose to be the most genuine emotion? How can one truly be genuine through artificial gifts like roses, teddy bears, chocolates and cards? Companies thrive off of people who waste money trying to be the perfect girlfriend or boyfriend. They know that couples feel obligated to follow the social norms of Valentine’s Day so they create advertisement to promote this obligation. My friend on the other hand calls it “single awareness day.” Contrary to popular belief, Valentine’s Day doesn’t really celebrate couples it instead reminds single people that they’re single. Think about all the single people who contemplate their loneliness on Valentine’s Day. Just last year, I went out to dinner with all my single friends celebrating our lives without boyfriends on Valentine’s Day. According to Wikipedia, “Valentine’s Day is an annual holiday held on February 14th celebrating love and affection between intimate companions.” Since when did the celebration of love and affection have a specific method. Not everybody celebrates affection the same way. Should a girl accept flowers and hearts despite her preference because its Valentine’s Day. Valentine’s Day is a prime example of conformity in our society because people are too concerned with commercialism than their intimate other.