true love is every day.

[fox]

I've said it before, and I'll say it again:  I object to Valentine's Day, but not for the reasons you think.

Those of you who enjoy it, by all means, go right ahead.  Have a great time.  I'm very Unitarian/libertarian (note the lowercase L, please)/laissez-faire that way.  But I wish more of us took the time to wonder if today's chocolates taste better, if today's jewelry sparkles brighter, if today's flowers are more floral and today's declarations of love are more sincere because it happens to be the 14th.

When someone tells me he loves me, I'd like it to be because he can't not tell me -- not because the calendar told him he'd better.

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[wordplay.livejournal.com]

I think this post is a near perfect demonstration of the truism that every cynic is just another frustrated romantic.

Next you'll be telling me that tiny little heart sprinkles don't belong at the Amish Market! Sheesh!

[darthfox.livejournal.com]

The hearts, I could get behind. But those colors didn't exist in nature. :-)

I don't know about every cynic; but w/r/t me, it's hardly a new observation. Actually, as ellen_fremedon and I have observed, what I really am is a contrarian. Next to an ordinary, basically happy, optimistic person, I look like an embittered cynic. Next to ellen_fremedon, I look like a starry-eyed idealist. And I don't think I'm a fixed point; I shift to accommodate, right, so that even what I have just called contrarianism, when Ellen calls it contrarianism, I prefer to call it "seeking balance".

[thyesc.livejournal.com]

and I say unto your userpic: "But I want to go to La Mancha"

and

"Vacancy here, a bed at the Ritz Men Only. A little white ship to sail the dangerous night in..."

[darthfox.livejournal.com]

OMFG NOSTALGIA. (Twelve years, Chad. TWELVE.)

(AND A HALF.)

[thyesc.livejournal.com]

I know, like right. And the fact that I still remember those lines, and the goldenrod polyester shirt, says something.

Oh, I still have the vacancy sign. It's at my parents house, but I still have that.

Block 10 on the Camino Real.

[wordplay.livejournal.com]

I can agree with this characterization.

For my own part, I think my approach to Valentine's Day is more pragmatic and self-interested. Afa I'm concerned, it's not a day for celebrating the people you love, it's a day for celebrating chocolate and flowers and pink and red things and the entire stable of traditionally romantic gestures. Those things are fun and probably worth celebrating, but I'm not altogether sure they have much at all to do with actual Love of the kind I am such a fan of. Doesn't mean the cupcakes aren't fun to bake, eh? :D

(AND OMG CREAM CHEESE ICING! How can you be cynical about a holiday that pretty much REQUIRES IT for the appropriate color scheme?! OK, that was a rhetorical question - I know exactly how easy it is. :D)

[ellen-fremedon.livejournal.com]

...Valentine's Day?

Oh, you mean Chocolate Sale Eve!