Feb 14, 2016 2 min read

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Oh yes, everyone, the awful day is here. The day that you listen to “Everybody Hurts” by R.E.M. on repeat. The day that your mom, friends and neighbors come pounding on your door and you simply groan and turn up the volume because “you’re so alone you might as well drown in a pool of your own tears.”

It’s Valentine’s Day, a holiday created by the Romans and molded by society. A simple holiday that gets more money for the retail companies: the couples buy chocolate and the singles buy tissues. A day based on the icky emotion: love.

Let me tell you, love will mess you up more than being punched in the face 72 times and then reciting the Declaration of Independence to a room full of foreign models in your underwear. (I’m just assuming here.)

It’s the worst.

And I know what you’re thinking: “Geez, I guess no one got her any flowers this Valentine’s Day.” While you just so happen to be correct, even in a relationship I would state my point.

Valentine’s Day sucks, because even if I were feeling good at the time, singles would still be sad and the retailers would still be winning. Hallmark would still be sitting on stacks of cash and that’s just not okay. (We see you, Hallmark)

Here is where I rest my point: Valentine’s Day sucks. Just celebrate Halloween instead, make sure to scare all the couples away and the capitalizing retailers. Or just carry on with your day like any other day, because you aren’t totally insane.

That’s cool, too.

By Lydia Grant

Freshman, Canon-McMillan