Valentine's Day: A Single Lady's View

Valentine's Day sucks, plain and simple. It's nothing but a day to make single people feel worse about themselves, to stress partnered men out over what to buy to express their love, and for women to be pampered and spoiled even more than they already are by their partners. Besides, we don't even get a day off!

Valentine's Day is a great day for business; sales on normally trivial things such as chocolates, flowers and adorable plushies sky-rocket. However, in today's day and age, this does seem to be the only reason for this 'holiday', for people to burn holes in their pockets dishing out money on worthless and (if I may be perfectly honest) meaningless gifts as an expression of 'love'.

To me, love is not about how much you spend on someone or how beautiful and/or extravagant your gifts to them are. Love is meant to be a  joining of two people who deeply and intimately care about one another.Gifts and other methods of pampering should play no large part in love.

To summarize what I'm trying to say, I'm not bitter in the least about being single for Valentine's Day, I just think it's ridiculous that people spend so much money on silly, disposable things as a ay to show their love. I'd much rather spend an evening out with someone I loved, and if they insisted on buying me flowers, I'd just want a few sprigs of lavender, which I find far more beautiful and unique than roses.