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 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!