So let's face facts we all know what "holiday" is coming up. Yes you know the one, Valentine's Day.. and lets be clear here you either love it or hate it...there is no in between.
The past three years of my life I have dreaded the holiday because I didn't have a boyfriend and it seems as though all of my friends did. I've never gotten flowers and never received chocolates (which I'm a little salty about) from a boy I have actually liked but you know what here I am alive and well.
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This Valentine's Day I've decided something, I decided that my hate for this holiday has grown even stronger. Why? Not because I don't have a boyfriend (Honestly I haven't met a decent guy in years) but because growing up makes you realize you should tell your significant other how much you love and care about them every day of the year not just Valentine's Day. It has become so commercialized, I don't even think people know the true meaning of it anymore.
I mean I see all these people on social media saying "Happy Valentine's Day love" or "I love you so much, Happy Valentine's Day" and it makes me sick because I know these people have either cheated on each other or broken up 45 times in the past. Like this just doesn't make any sense to me.
But that's what is wrong my generation and the new definition of "love"...we have become so set and determined to show people on social media how much we love someone that we actually forget to love them. This is why love is oh so messy.
Now don't get me wrong I am very traditional and believe in that fairytale love and I believe it does exist it's just a matter of finding a guy who believes in it too.
But my generation is so addicted to the idea of being in love and the idea of having someone love them back that we tend to go back to the same people over and over again even if we know it won't work out because we think, "It's better than being alone." But is it? I mean isn't that why you get in a relationship in the first place...to find the one you'll be with forever not to not be alone.
I mean and let's talk about God..what happened to creating a Godly relationship and putting Him first. I mean that's the whole purpose of marriage. You just don't see that nowadays because people only tend to think what they want to think about love and see what they want to see.
I also want to point out that I am no where near perfect and that sometimes I feed and live on the commercialization of Valentine's Day and modern "love" but I pray that as a whole generation we can fix this and become the kind of generation of love that our kids would be proud of just as I am proud of my parent's generation of love.
So now that my rant and is over I thought I would share a quote with all of you that I think honestly sums up modern Valentine's Day and modern "love" in a nutshell.
Here it is: "Stuck in a generation where loyalty is just a tattoo, love is just a quote, and lying is the new truth."
