Anti-Valentine's Day

This is a rant, so all you in favor of Valentine's day better skedaddle.

Originally Valentine's Day was St. Valentine's Day, a Roman Catholic holiday celebrating ST. VALENTINE. In case you are not Catholic or Christian or whatever, St Valentine back in the days of ancient Rome was jailed for being a doctor. When a guard of the jail came to him to ask for his help in curing his daughter of her blindness, he helped her by telling him to apply a salve on the insides of her eyes for three days, then come with her to Valentine. So, the guard did that, came back, and met Valentine. He put a rose up in front of her eyes and said "Open your eyes," and she did and she could see again! WHOOT CHEER whatever. So that's one reason- It's a freaking Christian holiday.

The second reason I hate it so much is that the card companies and the flower companies and whatever used the holiday to make money. By dropping the St. and just calling it Valentine's Day, most people that were not educated Christian-ly have no idea how the holiday came about. It just seems like something you could buy at a drug store. The religious holiday has become a nondenominational holiday which has become the grand thing we call Valentine's day.

Thirdly, it makes the rest of us who are above the grade of 4 and single feel like shit. Remember when you were little and you bought those little valentines and gave them to all your classmates? Yeah, those days have been sadly gone. In the place at my school, flowergrams. Which, in turn, people buy to make money for the French Club, but that's another story. But still, the idea of only sending certain people flowers still kills me. It just makes me want to tear out my hair.

Anyway, it all boils down to this: I'm not religious, a Hallmark supporter, or in love.




Sorry about the rant.

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Later:
My day was just made 10x worse.
first, it's Valentine's day, which is pretty obvious I hate with a burning passion.
Second, I was supposed to be with my grandmother today but instead she's going to go over to my great-aunt's house to spend the day with her.
third, my mom asked if I wanted to do anything today. Yeah, something with my friends. Oh wait, half them are dating someone, so no.

god. today's gonna suck more than usual.

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Even Later:
I WILL NEVER BELIEVE IN ANYTHING AGAIN.