Valentine’s Day is over. See, it wasn’t that bad!
Maybe it was hard to resist, especially when you’re innocently doing your shopping with your earphones on, and next thing you know you’re assaulted by an aisle full of giant teddy bears, red ornaments and other Valentine’s Day goodies. But you closed your eyes and moved on.
The same goes for social media. If you weren’t on Facebook, Twitter and deliberately ignoring your WhatsApp chain messages wishing you a Happy Valentine’s Day, even though you know it’s a terrible day – then well done! The joke wasn’t on you, because frankly, you didn’t pay attention to it.
It’s a mindset, you know? Maybe your colleagues at work got some flowers, no big deal. All you had to do was congratulate them, and that’s it. If they gushed in your face about it the whole day, well then, they were just being unnecessarily petty and in love. Who can help themselves sometimes?
But after the slow work day, you got home – probably told friends what a ‘lovely’ day it was and moved on. Twenty-four hours. That’s all it took. And are you standing tall today? Yes, you are. Did you get over the people who got iPhones, expensive handbags, candlelit dinners and romantic strolls? Yes, you did. As someone on the internet said: “But did you die, though?” I think not!
People are always going to compete with each other – some want to show off the latest cars they got from their partners, others want to show off their bling in a photo that asks ‘my nails are looking gorgeous, right?’ Ah, the pettiness. But never mind that, you got over the day faster than pressing ‘cancel’ on a video meant to showcase someone doing careless things on a highway, but it stopped halfway and turned out to be a porn video instead. Yeah, that kind of fast.
Now, you’re sort of halfway through the month and moving on to the next big day, which is Independence Day. Yay, go independence. Because that’s kind of what we strive for at the end of the day, right? The ‘Valentine’s Day should be every day’ parade is quite happy now, I take it. Yes, I do get your understanding, and yes, I do feel for the anti-Valentine’s Day crew, but really, at the end of the day, it was just a show of love and appreciation for our partners, worldwide. And all that St Valentine’s stuff symbolising love and all. It’s in someone’s history book. There really is no reason to hate.
If you were mad at other people, then you were kind of showing your bitterness. If you were happy for people, then that’s all that was necessary. As a pointer, I think that there were way too many people sending those jokes like “I’m going to die lonely”, “I’m never going to get married” or “pizza is my new lover now”. Guys. Why do we constantly look at being single like it’s a disease? Come on. It’s not like we were born into a relationship! There’s nothing wrong with… finding yourself. Or at least, enjoying yourself while you’re young… or older.
We need to stop looking at each other like ‘oaf, why didn’t she get married?’ or ‘will he ever get a wife?’ You know, everyone is passing through life at their own pace. There’s no reason to rush things. So please, embrace that single, sexy self of yours and let’s move on to the next one.
