14
Feb
Happy Singles Appreciation Day
Oh day of St. Valentine.
For more years than I can count you and I have been at odds. Every year you arrive, usually around the same time of year, February 14th. You linger around through the attempts of every major retailor to have me succomb to buying flowers, usually red roses; chocolates, usually some truffle of sorts, but yet year after year I regret to inform you, Dear St. Valentine, that I am still single.
I have no qualms with being single, I get the chance to go to the bar, shamelessly flirt with some dim-witted blonde, but usually the girl I turn out giving a shit about will be some brunette with a personality, a sense of humor, and eyes that could lose you in their depth, and a body that you have no problem caressing every moment of every day. It just to happens that this year, as all the rest before this one, I remain the stud-of-a-batchelor that I have been for the past however-many years of my life.
I have no problem with this.
So while you, you bastard of a seraph who decides to spite us, single-folk, I have one response. I raise a giant middle finger to you and your day. I will celebrate my singularity and enjoy its curses. I will not have to delve myself into the restaurant with candles lit, and buy these typical roses, or mundane chocolates with no personality.
In all your spite, St. Valentine, I will choose to love, but not the way you decide to. And sure as hell not the way that our new-fangled mercantilistic society has dictated. I will choose to express myself through appreciating those who are single. Because without being single, how are we to find this love. It doesn’t come once a year, on one day. There are many days and many chances to fall for one person, and maybe, just maybe one day that person will come along in a way you never expected. A new way that has never happened before, and we’ll no longer be single.
However, until that day, Dear St. Valentine, I will continue to appreciate those who are single and I will continue to enjoy my life to the fullest without your damn day impeding on my happines.
Until Then.
