[StargazerLily]

I know, I'm early. I just want to make sure I get the proper amount of time to whine about Valentine's Day. As if I don't feel alone enough as it is, they just have to rub it in my face, for a whole 24 hours, that every other human being is perfectly capable of being in a relationship, except me.

And the worst part is being in highschool. Every couple thinks they're "in love". How precious. What a lie. They wouldn't know what love is if I had the chance to smack 'em in the face with it.

So I guess my major complaint is that I'm alone. Unlike every other person I see, I have no one. Anyone else spending this holiday alone? We all need to ban together and kill the holiday. There are enough events in the year to buy flowers, chocolates, and jewelry. What's one less gonna do?

to me it has always been the b-day of someone I love (not in the dippy romantic way! sheesh!! ) so I rarely think of it as the big commercial day that has been invented.

make it out to be whatever you want..........create your own tradition anew!

I'll be alone on Monday and so what?! I'll call this person and wish them happy b-day. Then I'll go to my appointments as usual. If I'm lucky enough to still have any memory by the evening I'll try to watch an hour of a movie but that's iffy since my memory seems to be fading...fading...fadin.....fa....

Do you even like chocolate? Aside to chocoholics out there---I know I'm asking a sacrilegious question but some people just don't 'get' chocolate....I know I know :: shakes head :: They're still good people even if they don't worship the cocoa bean.

Don't believe the hype and start asking yourself what about yourself do you like? What qualities do you possess that you are proud of? We all have something that we can do or are good at that we take pride in at some level within. Why not celebrate your good qualities on Monday and be glad that you're not wasting them on someone who wouldn't know love if it bit them in the heiney.

Monday is only a day in the year. It is what you make of it. For me it is a b-day of a close person to me. I do not have any trappings of commercial V-day around here. Life goes on. Just another day.

Take care starbright.

[Maya]

Starbright - I am sorry you are alone and thinking of missing something on V-day. I am not alone and I do not plan on doing anything special - no cards for hubby, no candy from him - it is just another day. Now Christmas and my birthday are the days that get me down. Perhaps our past memories get in the way of living in the moment and enjoying those good things that come our way, whatever day of the year it is. Be at peace with yourself on Monday - and there will be LOTS of forum members who will give you love and support from afar. Take care of yourself.

[Isolated_Guy]

I HATE, HATE, HATE Valentines Day. I've spent all of them in the past alone and I will spend every future one alone till the day I die. I have no choice. I'm a prisoner in my own body. All this crap they keep saying about this "eye of the beholder" nonsense is just that, CRAP.

[phoenix30]

i'm alone. again. V-day just makes me feel inadequate, unloved, lonely, pathetic, and angry at myself for being so weak!

I'm going to treat myself a huge box of chocolates.
x

[cms39]

Valentine's day is just another day for me and my husband. Sometimes I get some chocolate. I think being alone isn't so bad - nice to be able to just do what you want. Let's all try to love OURSELVES.

[wisewoman]

Your right, it is just another day and I am sorry for the lonliness it perpetuates. Hmm, as a kid it was just candy and little valentines at school and no big deal. Is no big deal here for sure. Ozzie, my thoughts are with you.

[cms39]

Saint Valentine was about love - but not necessarily ROMANTIC love. Loving ourselves and loving our neighbor are what we should aim for.

[obsids]

Bah....

I said this on another thread, but I'll say it here too....

Don't let the Hallmark company and the Hersheys company and the stuffed animal companies and the jewelry companies and the florists dictate your day. Feb 14 is, after all, just another day. Just because there are fools out there that will eagerly toss their money to the greedy companies over a 'contrived' holiday doesn't mean you have to join in. Be a nonconformist. Wear all black that day or all green or a santa hat or just ignore it all.

I am happily married, and I still hate Valentines day.

Obsidian

[h0kie]

I totally agree obsids!

Hubby and I treat it like another day. Actually, he might make dinner that night special...but nothing extravagent. I'd color everything we eat red that day...but he's hidden the food coloring. Drat! I will hafta get even on St. Patty's Day.

We don't even buy cards. Waste of money.

[vacantangel]

{{{{{{{{{{ozzie}}}}}}}}}}}}

I don't like Valentine's Day either. It's a day to remind me that once again I am alone with nobody to love me. A yearly reminder that I want and need someone special to share life with. There is nothing better than being held very close by someone who loves you and feeling very loved and secure in their warm embrace

[downsolong]

Absofuukinlutely V day is a marketing ploy to sell that costs way more than most want to know!

Chocolate is made by raped child slave labor. The coveted diamonds are mined by the same and pay for african geniscidail wars. Roses are produced by pesticide and herbicide poisoned laborers who suffer imposed poverty while they slave. boycott this lame holiday that promotes lies suffering and death in the name of love.

with contempt for all lies and scam for profit~Down

[StargazerLily]

i'm sorry (((((((down))))))

it's not the marketing that upsets me. honestly. it's just being alone. if i had someone, i don't want anything from him but their presence. *sigh*, just one more day of the weekend and i have to put up with the "love sick" pre teens of the world. gah. and alone. and see every last one of my exbf's with another girl. *cries* nvm me

[vacantangel]

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I don't like Valentine's Day either. It's a day to remind me that once again I am alone with nobody to love me. A yearly reminder that I want and need someone special to share life with. There is nothing better than being held very close by someone who loves you and feeling very loved and secure in their warm embrace

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Thought I should clarify my comments just a little. This year I do have someone but as he would say

DAMN GEOGRAPHICS!!!

Couple that with the fact that he is not well now, I will be alone again but I know that I am loved.

well, i'm alone and here's how i'll spend 12 hours tomorrow. i'll get to work at 6:00 a.m. i'll walk through the dialysis room and speak to all of the patients that came in at 4:00 a.m. to spend part of their day hooked up to a machine so that they can live. around 8:00 one of our younger patients, A, will come in and immediately cover himself entirely with his blanket.......he doesn't only suffer from kidney failure, but major depression.....wonder why? then my favourite, C, will come in and i'll kid him about how good he looks after the weekend.....he'll grin and shake his head.......i'll start checking some of the patients out that did come in early.......noon will arrive and we'll eat our lunches on the run.....the third shift of patients come in then. some of them stay on the machine three or four hours and some are on for 6 hours.....around 6:00 p.m., we'll finish with the last one and do our paperwork and go home. my cats and dogs will greet me and i'll have dinner and then to bed........ .....dialysis is a very hard and difficult road to travel. AND of course i'll wish every patient a Happy Valentine's Day........