Day 20/21 - post Valentines day and what seems to be a continuation into today..

The last time I celebrated Valentine's day must have been in primary school. Even then it was mandatory that we set up stalls and sell mugs with cheesy I love you nonsense, red roses, teddy bears, chocolates and self-made cards. All in celebration of St Valentine. It all seemed natural then that there's one day in the year were love is excessively expressed. Well, its sickening! Even as I write now I feel nauseous! So Valentine's day is the great day of love - what is love?? No one still has found a unanimous answer to that infamous question. Ok, so say we all have our own definition of what love is, fair enough. I think love is an unreacheable dream that fades into nothingness once you finally reach it but I will not shove my cynicism down anyone's throat. I've given up on love & that's ok for me, I'll pick it up on my way to somewhere someday. So ja, Valentine's day is a commercialised attempt to savor the sentiments of love etc. etc. I think it kills it. Everything gets caught up in prices and the colour of a wrapper and love is lost. Its superficial and empty. Boring and irritating. Love isn't futile and insincere. It tells a story and finds its place within you, nowhere the surface. Yeah, but its Valetine's day, a day in which 'lovers' get pathetically soppy. Then again its only my opinion. I love it!!