Valentine's Day

It’s come to that time of the year again where all us desperately single, hopeless romantics club together to voice our utter hatred of Valentine’s Day. The time not spent on ‘perfecting’ ourselves by grooming, trimming, waxing and painting, is spent on desperately trying to attract the attention of some clueless male specimen who has absolutely no idea as to the importance of such a day.

So in the week leading up to this supposedly celebratory day I must emphasize to each of you who will be spending your Valentine’s Day holed up in your flat with chocolate and wine, watching ‘P.S. I Love You’ and ‘the Notebook’ like me, that while Valentine’s Day may be a lonely day for all us single beings, it is still a day meant to celebrate the very essence of romance.

We should not try and convince others not to celebrate it, we should not hate ourselves for being single and we should not hate ourselves for secretly wishing that we had a man who would sweep us off our feet in their (preferably shiny and new) car to some (fancy) restaurant.

And yes, Valentine’s has become an over-commercialized reason to celebrate something you should celebrate everyday anyway, by buying expensive gifts and cheap chocolate shaped as hearts, but the truth is that it is always nice to have an excuse to spoil the people you love.

So if you are one of those girls who has spent the last week (or month) preparing your ammo so as to ‘prove’ to everyone else that you actually want to be alone on Valentine’s then by all means go ahead but let me tell you something, there are tonnes of other girls feeling the same way, so grab your girlfriends, dress up a little and head out. There’s nothing to lose. And I promise it will be better than crying yourself to sleep, over some boy who’s not even worth it anyway.