I hate Valentine’s Day. I hate the feelings, expectations, and stigmas that surround the day. Valentine’s Day is a consumer holiday. Hearts, pink and red, flowers, chocolate, candy, and so much other V-Day crap that makes me sick.

Valentine’s day is about telling that special someone that you love them. Um… Actually, you should be doing that all year round. Life is too short not to tell those you care about that you love them. I know I firmly believe this and can be overly affectionate but we don’t need to make a fake holiday and then create all this expectation around it.

Guys have so much pressure to make Valentine’s day great and I know so many people who are just disappointed by what they end up discovering for the day.

It is stupid. Why waste all that money when you could be using it for something great? Stop buying cheap crappy teddy bears that talk when you could be buying something that matters. Not buying into this commercialized holiday that we have created for ourselves.

Don’t even get me started on the shame we have created for single women on that day. If you don’t have a date for Valentine’s Day you are automatically pitied and looked down on. “Oh, honey, Maybe next year.” No. Screw that. Be happy and independent. You don’t need someone to give you flowers on a particular day in order to be “doing things right.”

We have now created “Galentine’s day” to make our single friends feel better about not being with someone else on Valentine’s day, but if we treated our friends well and those we love around us all year, we wouldn’t need a freaking holiday.

This pit that we have created for ourselves is just so ridiculous to me. I mean we don’t even get the day off for Pete's sake! You want to show me you love me? Give me a day off! I am not about the pink and the cute cheesy products we have filled our stores with. I go shopping and it is like a princess party exploded through out the store.

When I think of the Valentine’s Days I have lived through, I think of going downstairs and getting a box of chocolates and a card from my mom. And later getting cheesy cards and nasty fake milk chocolate hearts from my classmates. They weren’t heartfelt. They were given just in order to receive. You give Valentine’s in order to get them in return, but did we actually read them? No. We quickly ripped off the candy from the card and the card was never to be seen or heard from again. It fed the greediness this commercial holiday has allowed to grow in this society.

You should not need a holiday to treat people kindly. You should not need a holiday to tell the people around you that you love them. Do that every day. And for the love of mud, stop shaming people for not having someone on Valentine’s day.