Valentines Day is usually a dividing topic; couples either live for Valentines Day or despise the very idea of it.
Kendra Wilkinson tweets her love of the special day:
“I love valentines day..Hank took me whale watching last year n it was fun! This wkend we r gunna spend a lil time in Vegas. grandma is coming to watch him for the wkend while mom n dad get some time together..”
Sandra Bullock definitely takes part in Valentines Day, she told Britain’s OK! Magazine that she wanted to have a very sexy surprise for her hubby, motorcycle dude Jesse James.
She explains:
“I decided for Valentine’s Day I would do a special hair thing. I wanted to try to create a pink heart shape with my lower hair. It was painful. You had to bleach it first. There’s something about bleach that feels like acid. Then I had to shave it. I was in so much pain, but I kept going and put the pink dye on and it went the wrong color.”
Then of course representing the cynics, Ashton Kutcher shares his dislike for the concept of Valentines Day with People.com:
“I hate Valentine’s Day. I can’t stand it. I think that every day should be a day of romance. I think you should celebrate love 364 days out of the year. Then, on Valentine’s Day, you should get to tell whoever you hate that you cannot stand them. There would be one day of hating, and 364 days of love”.
I’ve never understood the aversion to Valentines Day. When it comes down to it, Valentines Day has become commercialized. It’s all about who gets the biggest bouquet of flowers delivered to the office, buying whatever jewellery seems fit for the occasion as advertised by Kaye Jewellers as they sing that annoying “Every kiss begins with Kaye” jingle.
It is what it is, but frankly it’s no more commercialized than Christmas, Easter and Thanksgiving. We live in a commercialized world. The goal of every product out there is to capitalize on the feelings and emotional of the general public.
This IS the world we live in people.
Personally, I love Valentines Day. To me it’s just a reminder, a reminder to show you care, express your love, do something thoughtful, a reminder to be romantic.
YES, you pessimists are correct we shouldn’t need reminders. In a perfect world everyday should be Valentines Day and frankly there should be many days throughout the year ahead filled with thoughtfulness and romance. However this is not a perfect world, this is life; sometimes we need reminders, to me it’s no different than a birthday.
A birthday is a reminder of life, a day that is a benchmark, reminding you to celebrate the life you have and reflect on how you’re living it. Valentines Day is a reminder of love, a point of reference, reminding you to appreciate the person you love, show them, tell them, think about the reasons you’re grateful to have them in your life.
And in all likelihood Valentines Day is a day to get lucky, get laid, make love… however you want to put it. We shouldn’t need to mark THAT on our calendars either, but there’s nothing wrong with ‘a given’ or a predetermination, it gives you something to look forward to.
So ENJOY! Please don’t spend the day going against the commercialized current, embrace it. Take advantage of this day, use it as a reminder to say all the things you’ve been meaning to say, do all those romantic things you’ve thought about doing in passing and enjoy the fact that if you choose to celebrate Valentines Day with your significant other it’s probably a given, you ARE probably going to get lucky on February 14th, with any luck it’s going to happen every year, have FUN!
What are your thoughts and feeling on Valentines Day?
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