VD-Day

Yesterday was Valentine's Day. Everyone asked me, "Are you doing anything with m?" "What are you doing for V-Day?" So I would go in to my whole spiel about how it's a commercial holiday designed to take your hard earned money. Much like "Love Day" on the Simpsons.

Here's my reasoning.

To do something special on VD-Day is akin to doing nothing for your significant other any other time of the year. It's almost as if you had to do something out of obligation. Granted, some things should be done out of obligation. But when that is the driving motivation behind an act, there is no longer sentiment in the act.

Example: If I bought you flowers everyday because I had to, eventually, the flowers would lose their meaning. It would just be another thing to throw away. But if I got you flowers every once in awhile, then you'd think, "Oh! This is special" because it doesn't happen all the time.

I'm also a fan of celebrating holidays when they shouldn't be celebrated. Like celebrating Thanksgiving early or New Year's in December. Most of these holidays are celebrating a sentiment and not a specific reason.

Christmas is different because there is a specific date associated with the holiday. Even though no one really knows if December 25th is THE day of Christs's birth, it's good enough. In the same vain, I celebrate people's birthdays around when their actual birthday is.

Other than a specific date associated with these holidays, what do they have going for them? If I think the holiday is worth celebrating, I would do it on my own and on my own timetable when the sentiment would be real.

I guess it all boils down to being exploited. I don't know what's worse, being exploited to your face by a friend or by an invisible hand from a hidden corporate entity?

I enjoy VD-Day as much as I would enjoy a venereal disease. Hence the name.