Celebrating Valentine's Day?

If I wrote about Friday 13 yesterday, I thought it would only be fair to write a note on February 14 and share my experiences about this so commercialized holiday. Problem is … I have NO experience whatsoever in celebrating this day!

No, really. It’s not as if I hate the idea of Valentine’s Day as one too many of my Grinch friends do. The reason for my lack of knowledge on this holiday is that the men that I have been with in the past have all been pretty useless in the romanticism department. This means that the experience of receiving flowers and sexy underwear, or being taken for a romantic dinner or get-away on February 14, is completely foreign to me.

Despite this, I really don’t think that there is anything bad about having an official day to celebrate Love… even if it is all about giving and receiving gifts.

After all, if you think about it, why do we throw birthday parties? To celebrate that we have been alive and kicking one more year -- and for the presents, right? Why do we organize a party after we get married? To celebrate that we have made official our union with the one we love --- and for the presents, right? Why do we celebrate Christmas? To remember the birth of Jesus Christ --- and for the presents, right? Why do we celebrate Mother’s Day, Teacher’s Day, Father’s Day, Women’s Day, etc.?

So, I wish you a Happy Valentine’s Day … and to my Grinch friends I ask you not to kill Cupid, please … it seems that because of the credit crunch he has been made redundant and is now jobless anyway, the poor thing!