There are enough negatives in the world that we should celebrate any and all positives. If it makes you smile then it is worth celebrating.
So take yourself out of the fight completely. The best fight you can really give is just being yourself, and if you're not a fighter you're not. But you still might manage to drive them crazy with your oddness.
I think Valentine's Day is a day you can be creative, especially this year when it falls on a Saturday. This will be the first one for my girl friend and me, so I'm really looking forward to it. She told me she doesn't want flowers and doesn't want to be taken out to dinner, so ... We have decided to get a remote-control vibrator. We will go to a bar we've never been to before and we will sit on opposite sides of the bar, facing each other. We will pretend we don't know each other. She will have the vibrator inside of her and of course I will have the control. I told her I would especially like it if she would chat up a stranger while I play with the control. After that, we will go back to her bedroom where I will blindfold her and put her into restraints. Need to think about what to do after that. I think it will involve chocolate and caramel and feathers ...
Driving and balancing a bunch of flowers with one hand, the other hand driving a manual with no power steering, dumping water in your lap, you still cant believe what they cost then everyday I go over to my girl at her house they look more dead. Probably cause of that water that fell on my lap... fucking holidays.
i had no idea. no one should be pushing anyone anywhere. i stay away from places where people insist on 'offering' alky or toke, for sort of the same kinds of reasons. i just don't believe there's anything particularly wonderful about the so called 'nuclear' family. happiest periods in my life i've been pretty much of a hermit. i've also been in multiple relationships. but not where we all had to live in the same house all the time. 3 sums are unstable no matter what the combination of genders might happen to be. even three of a kind. but balanced groups of five or more can work. i've seen them do so. but not if it were something everyone felt pressured into. i can't even begin to imagine that. having been an only child, i sometimes have a hard time imagining not being a hermit. though i was married once. late in life. and then she died. i think the closest i come to feeling anything about that is a twinge of guilt for not missing her more. or something. with people/without people, as long as i don't have to be around any one, or any one bunch of them, all the time. i really have to be alone to do most of the things i enjoy doing. so pretty much of a hermit is the only thing its practical for me to be. forgot which topic thread i was in there for moment. so the day. well i still have no idea who this valintine was. or how his name came to be associated with a day that's mostly about filia, if not eros. i don't have any more problem with the day then i do with any other that doesn't come from my own personal beliefs. its a fine day. its just a day, that's all.
I have not read most of this thread but in response to the OP....I think it's a bullshit holiday but I still try to do something a little special for my wife and daughter. I have always had roses delivered to my daughter at school. It's always been one rose for each grade she has been in so in the year she graduates H.S. she will get a dozen roses delivered. It's not a huge deal but she likes it and I like feeling like I'm doing something that she might look back on fondly.
what? more love songs? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nOBQ0R4x-O8 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uTwInSJKVvI