This article is written by a student writer from the Her Campus at Chatham chapter.
Valentine’s Day is coming around, and everyone is making a big deal about it. Either people love it, or they hate it. Typically, the people who love it the most are ones in relationships or working on one (or have really good friends). It seems like a day that isolates the single people. And for what??
This made up holiday seems like it is meant to make people feel good, but inadvertently makes a large part of the population left out. Isn’t inclusion a big part of modern day society? Or at least it is trying to be?
And what are we really celebrating? A diaper-wearing archer? If you have to wait until February 14 to celebrate the love in your life or to spice things up, you have bigger problems than buying chocolate.
I don’t say this to be cynical. I am actually in a great relationship with someone I love. I still refuse to go all out for this day, though. We are a broke college couple who have fun all the time. We also just got done spending money on each other for Christmas and birthdays. Why do we need to get googly eyed for one day out of the year? Why is this one day so special?
In my opinion, we should do our normal routine on V-day, then take advantage of all the candy sales the next day!