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.

Comments

[elance.livejournal.com]

I completely agree. Valentines Day is an over-marketed waste of money, and I think most people participate in it out of a sense of guilty obligation. I don't want anyone, ever, telling me they love me, buying me presents, or doing things for me, out of guilty obligation.

John and I very happily ignore the day entirely.