so i know that this is a couple of days late but here's my V-day rant:
actually...
i'm not feeling the rant.
i didn't see anything to make me feel as though i need to rant about the commercialism of the holiday. i spend most of my time just reminding people of the saint that it is so named after. i didn't say much more than that, as i don't actually remember all that he did. i just remember him being a rather righteous fellow with a few good ideas that led to our cannonizing of him in a holiday. look him up. he's like St. Niklaus...
anyway, in short, i ended up actually doing something on V-day. my girlfriend (of almost 2.5 years now, wow) has never done anything for the holiday with a significant other. as much as i don't really like to endulge in the actions of overkilling a holiday and destrying it's meaning and purpose, she still wanted to do something. we just went to dinner, but it was a nice date. time to get away for a moment with the one that i love so dearly. to me it was just the 14th of february, a wednesday, and a night out. to my girlfriend it was a beautiful Valentine's Day spent with the person she loves. which is better? i've yet to know. happy belated V-day. until then---
2 comments:
See, I've never really understood the aversion to holidays. Yes, Valentine's Day could be any day, and there's not anything intrinsically more special about it than any other Wednesday or the 14th of any other month, etc, etc. The same could be said for any holiday.
Each and every day is special and unique, but it can be easy to forget that. I think that holidays help us to remember that each day is NOT the same as the one before it, and give us an excuse to celebrate things and have parties and get together.
Also: cookies shaped like hearts or trees or bunnies or whatever.
schwa!
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