Optimal Luminosity

Each and every year in the middle of february people start acting odd. Advertisements with hearts on them pop up on every street corner and on every TV-show. For the last few years Hasbro has managed to completely rip out of context yet another religious holiday for their own gains, millions of Hasbro Valentine-cards are sold all over the world. Flowers everywhere, kisses here and kisses there, couples forming and breaking up in a matter of hours or days.

Each and every Valentine’s Day teens can devolve from – somewhat – intelligent beings to fools that can’t tell a cute girl or guy apart from a big female dog – also known as a bitch – or a water cooler. The amount of promises and commitments made on that day are astronomical whereas most of them will only last for a few days, with the occasional exception that manages to go a week without horribly failing.

Only for this day people under the age of 25 even seem to care about buying their better/worse half something other than a condom, long life romance! If you were in any serious relationship you wouldn’t need Valentine’s Day to show your love, you would know deep in your heart you have to show that kind of special attention to your loved one each and every day of the year.

Treating your current life-partner well on Valentine’s Day is a “Get our of jail free”-card in many relationships, that will pardon the neglect after you’ve had an overdose of him or her after you had to spend both Christmas and New Year with your in-laws! One romantic dinner or a big enough diamond or video game and they’ll be eating out of your hand until you play a prank on them on April’s Fools day.

Aside from the obvious – and usually short-lived – teenage romances that sprout on Valentine’s Day we also have to keep in mind the broken hearts that seem to pop up everywhere. A girl having her first crush on a boy, she bought him a little present and wanted to confess her feelings to him, but instead of a passionate peck on the cheek all she gets is a jerk that starts laughing the moment she starts talking (of course this also happens the other way around, where the boy is ridiculed by his secret love).

If you plan to get a relationship that works I would stop worrying about Valentine’s day because one romantic day in the year is just not enough to keep two people together. Try to make every day into it’s own little version of the Hasbro-holiday. A few flowers, a little gift, a nice dinner, being together. Those are the things that really count, so keep it in mind the next 364 days!

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