Valentines Day

Yet another Hallmark holiday, designed by the greetings card industry to extract money out of all of us. Except those of us who are alone for Valentines. Thank you very much world, I am painfully aware that I am all alone and dateless for Valentines. I really don’t need to be seeing all these hearts and banners and exclamations of love everywhere I go just now. Wheres my holiday, the one that celebrates being sad and alone!

Like meals for two at the supermarket and single person supplement on hotel rooms, Valentines day is the enemy of single people everywhere. Nobody likes to be reminded of their shortcomings or their failings, or things about themselves that they don’t particularly like. Imagine if you were constantly told all the time that you were overweight. It’s not pleasant is it? We overweight people know we are, and don’t need the reminding. And because of that, most reasonable people in society don’t go around telling people, ‘Hey, you look fat’. Yet this same society has no problem making fun of people who are single, like you are not a complete person unless you have a significant other in your life.

I’m telling you, World, that it is okay to be single, and it doesn’t make me any less of a person…