Throughout my entire life, I have prided myself on being a skeptic of love, all the while hating Valentine’s Day, the color pink, and expressions of love that seem to be magnified by a holiday in which people take only a single day to tell a person that they love them. Yet, no matter how skeptical you are and however long you attempt to remain stoic, something or some things manage to break through the cracks on your personal love vendetta. By now you’re wondering, “What doesn’t entirely suck about Valentine’s Day?” Let me tell you!
Pink – The Color, not the Singer
I used to hate the color pink because I thought it was too mainstream. I think the two of us are back on speaking terms again. I am wearing pink today, and I’ll probably wear a variation on Valentine’s Day. Maybe. We’ll see when the time comes.
Love Movies
Yep, those sappy, make-you-cry love stories where boy meets girl, boy and/or girl falls in love, something happens, they break apart, and through some happenchance of events, they usually get back together in the end and swear that, this time, it’s forever.
Everyone’s favorite romantic movie is the movie that most people think of when they consider love movies: The Notebook. Noah sees Allie, Noah makes it his young life’s mission to ask her out, she agrees, and they fight hard all the time but love each other even harder. They are separated but end up back together. The movie ends with them dying together. The credits roll, and you’ve cried during all 62 times that ABC Family has shown it throughout the month of February.
In our sane minds, movies like The Notebook aren’t suitable to be watched by anyone, given we get the entirely wrong ideas of love and relationships. Still, every year, we’re curled up with our Ben and Jerry’s and tissues, looking just as pathetic as we did last year. Therefore proving that, as much as we deny it, we love movies about love.
Wildly Romantic Gestures
Among these wildly romantic gestures come “spur of the moment” proposals, flowers sent from our secret (or not-so-secret) admirers, chocolate or other candy, candle-light dinners and the first “I love you.”
Let’s dissect:
- “Spur of the Moment” Proposals – Very predictable. Who hasn’t thought, “Oh, it is Valentine’s Day: the Day of Love. Let’s propose to my sweetheart.” That’s what girls are thinking because, deep down, the idea of walking around flipping people the ring finger is kind of awesome.
- Flowers – My mouth says, “You send me flowers, I send them back. Ain’t nobody got money for that!” Behind my veil of stubbornness, however, lie my in-class daydreams of walking back to my room to see a vase of colored daisies waiting for me with a little note, saying, “Just thinking about you today.” I think my reservation here has been that of “If you can send these on Valentine’s Day, can’t you send them any other day when people aren’t expecting some big show of romantic gesture?” Don’t get me wrong, though. I’ll take flowers on Valentine’s Day, just as any girl will. And we won’t reject roses.
- Chocolate and other Candy – That’s sweet (literally), if you’re not allergic to candy. If you’re allergic to candy, as I am, you see the gesture of chocolates or candy being an insensitive inability to pay attention to the most important details of your life. If you aren’t allergic, “Carry on, my wayward son.”
- Candle-Light Dinner – No complaints here. NEXT!
- The First “I Love You.” – See “’Spur of the Moment’ Proposals.”
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