Valentine’s Day is a corporate Hallmark holiday that makes all us single people sad! I have to spend every Valentine’s Day crying myself to sleep because I have to be constantly reminded that I am not good enough to deserve a lover because I am inadequate in every way including being poor and being unfunny. I literally have negative rizz. When I speak to women, I can feel my chances decreasing. It has gotten to the point where even when hearing a woman’s voice makes me feel tingly because the sound waves are traveling inside my ear, and I think that’s hot. This is why I hate this day, and we should ban it!
Last week, I had the displeasure of seeing the Diversity Club selling $1 valentines. While the Diversity Club is run by good people and for a good cause, it reminded me that Valentine’s Day is coming. Of course, the $1 valentines weren’t the only thing reminding me of Valentine’s Day. If they didn’t do it, I would still be subjected to attacks from this holiday no matter where I went.
Part of the reason I have resentment for this holiday is, of course, my insecurities at still being alone at my age. My friends call me Olive Oil. I am a Hikikomori – a Japanese word for an adolescent male who has an extreme avoidance of social contact (the fact that I know this word makes me even more cringe). I cry myself to sleep because of my negative rizz. However, I am even more mad at this holiday because of its corporate heritage. We know corporations are the source of almost every problem in this country. Inadequate public transport? Thank corporations. Expensive healthcare? Thank corporations. Terrible working conditions? You guessed it – corporations. Even the one thing supposedley uncorrupted by money, love, is being corrupted by greed.
Corporations prey on our insecurities by making us want to buy their products for Valentine’s Day, making us feel incomplete if we are unable to afford these products. On top of that, it is harmful. Love is something that should be expressed at every moment, not saved for one day. Then, there are all the single people. Despite the fact that being single is just our base mode, we feel bad about it because this holiday, perpetuated by corporations, keeps pushing us to feel we must have a significant other on the holiday and we are made to feel inadequate if we don’t.
Over time, though, I feel that we as a society have become more aware of the harmful effects of Valentine’s Day, but we have not fully put these past expectations of love away. We need to accept that being single is okay and that one ever actually needs to enter a relationship to become a full person. Perhaps, the traits we seek in others to complete ourselves are already within us. We should not be jealous of those who have found love, but instead, be upset for those who make us feel bad for being single. If we do find love, that’s all the better.
Our feelings may be one summit that can not be reached. Even with all these words, you, the ever so wise reader, may still not feel better about yourself. Maybe our insecurities about being alone aren’t created by corporations, but just enhanced by them. This I don’t know for certain, but maybe we are doomed to always be a little sad. Maybe we shouldn’t think about being “alone” when single. Think about all your family and your friends, even your enemies. Even if you don’t like any of these people, at least you are not alone. This Valentine’s Day, I implore you to be good to everyone, and if you are single, hang out with friends. Maybe even buy one of them a valentine; it doesn’t have to be romantic. Just have fun being by yourself. Perhaps the Valentine’s Day was the friends we made along the way.
