Happy Valentine's day - all you couples and especially all you beautiful single people. I've been wanting to blog about this for a while, but I'm glad I didn't because I only really made my mind up about it yesterday. I was going to come on here all negative and tell you how stupid the whole day is but now I'm not.
Valentine's day. The day to express your love. And every couple does; you have to. It's everywhere. I've never been in love, but I do think about it a lot and the idea excites me. Such a huge emotion; more than an emotion - a total merge of two individuals. Think how much energy that would take! It's such a huge, indescribable energy and Valentine's day is the day to celebrate it. But how? Flowers, chocolates, cards; the day of love is celebrated with the cheapest, most generic aspects of the such a personal, unique and amazing relationship. That isn't love.
Sure it's only a token, of course, you couldn't show much more in a single day. But while we're celebrating it let's try to drill down to the more sensitive parts. I could buy flowers for anyone, Amazon's computers could send chocolates to anyone. But it takes personal time and effort to create a token that gets close to love.
My eFriend Sarah Maree created a beautiful video for her boyfriend. A parody of a perfume advert. That's what I'm talking about. That took so much work with costumes, acting, editing, voice-overing, imagining and motivation. That's not something you'll forget in two years time like a bunch of flowers. The idea of someone taking that much time over someone, that kicks ass. You've gotta watch it to understand, click here.
The other day I was talking to Speed about how I thought humans are loosing their morals. Everything is ready made and generic. And how I felt humans are loosing respect for eachother in general. Not that I know much about the past, but I get the feeling. He assured me times were changing and morals change to suit the times. And that it isn't always bad changes, for example, years ago it was more acceptable to hit your wife. I like his point. But I still feel we're loosing the passion. Is anyone with me on this one? Maybe I've just never had a chance to express it.
So forget the stupid pink gifts! Draw the card yourself, paint the picture that will be treasured for ages! Everyone can do something, if you're not good at painting then bake, if you're not good at baking find something else. Something personal.
But I don't really know anything. Why should we work so hard for that one day of the year? Obviously a single day of infinite gifts could never get close to the emotions felt. ahh, I haven't made up my mind at all, ignore this post
[edit 15/Feb/08] p.s. Two blogs in one day and I still forgot to mention this! I was so excited when I got home yesterday to see a red envelope under my door! I quickly opened my door only to find it was a voucher from LoveFilm... No cards for me! Ahh well, to be fair, I didn't send any.
You may feel like you don't know anything, in which case I can talk about what knowledge really is and isn't! :-P
ReplyDeleteBut it seems like you've come to great conclusions. I agree 100% about the superficial aspect that people seem to love. It's cheap, quick, easy, and that's why people do it.
(Hmm. After reading that last sentence, I realize just how wrong that could be taken, but I will leave it in as proof of why I need to proofread more often.)
And you're much too kind; thank you for the very nice words. February 14th is an excuse to eat chocolate and candy, just think of it that way! :-) Giving holidays your own twist is fun; next year I might dress up as bloody St. Valentine... That would be original!
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ReplyDeleteThat link is kinda sorta relevant to your whole "Artificial valentines" thing.
Potatoes.