Our Voice: You should love every single day
For hundreds of years Feb. 14 has been known to all as the international day of love. Valentine’s Day cards, huge teddy bears, balloons,red roses, heart-shaped jewelry, diamond rings, and boxes of candy flood the stores and we are expected to buy these items to show our love for that special someone.
Throughout childhood, Valentine’s Day was a holiday to always look forward to with excitement. Going to school that day brought the joy of decorating your very own mailbox to place at your desk where all your classmates could drop their Valentine’s Day cards in there if they wanted to or not. Everyone was loved and no one was left out.
Valentine’s Day has since then turned into a holiday of expectation. Every guy is expected to shower his girlfriend with gifts, even if they don’t have the money. The meaning of this day has been blown out of proportion and turned into a day for revenue and advertising.
The advertisers make us suffer weeks before Valentine’s day filling our brains with ideas of what we are expected to buy and to what extent, price wise, we should go to in order to show our love for that one person. These advertisements pressure the ones that are in relationships into buying the most ridiculously expensive gifts. All the single people end up being annoyed by these continuous obnoxious commercials. No one should have to buy gifts such as high-priced diamond jewelry from a jeweler or costly and flower arrangements made of fruit to show someone how much you love them.
Love should not have to be expressed with store-bought items. Instead it should be shown through simple actions like giving your loved one a hug or kiss or even cooking dinner for them. In addition showing that special person that you love them should also not be limited to one day out of the year. Love should be expressed to that person as often as possible in even the littlest of ways.
We here at The Colonnade want to wish you a Happy Valentines Day. We not only love you on this day but we also love you each and every day.
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