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eclectica
2005-02-14, 07:01
Do you celebrate Valentine's day? I've always been aware of it but have never celebrated it much. The holiday seems a bit hypocritical because so many people act like they are in love one day of the year, and then that gives them a clean slate to go back to the poisonous behavior in their relationships. It reminds me of how people go to church every Sunday to feel that they are forgiven for being the monsters that they are during the rest of the week. Well that's the cynical outlook but really I think if people are romantic they will celebrate their love whenever they feel like it and not when retailers decided they need some business and sales. Love is a private affair, so making it a holiday is oxymoronic. Only if there were orgies involved would it make sense to make it a public holiday.

With some holidays there are just as many people happy as there are sad people. Holidays are a time of joy for some but depression for others. But with Valentine's day I imagine that more people are unhappy than happy. The reason why is that people already in love can take each other for granted, but for people who are lonely, then the holiday is a bitter reminder of that loneliness.

This song is my favorite love song.

Bette Midler - The Rose.mp3 (http://www.p2pjihad.org/eclectica/Bette%20Midler%20-%20The%20Rose.mp3)

Some say love, it is a river
that drowns the tender reed.
Some say love, it is a razor
that leaves your soul to bleed.
Some say love, it is a hunger,
an endless aching need.
I say love, it is a flower,
and you its only seed.

It's the heart afraid of breaking
that never learns to dance.
It's the dream afraid of waking
that never takes the chance.
It's the one who won't be taken,
who cannot seem to give,
and the soul afraid of dying
that never learns to live.

When the night has been too lonely
and the road has been too long,
and you think that love is only
for the lucky and the strong,
just remember in the winter
far beneath the bitter snows
lies the seed that with the sun's love
in the spring becomes the rose.

Dollar_Girl
2005-02-14, 10:09
i hate valentines day. it is a miserable day. it is the day the commercial world really emphasise the fact that my b/f (and everybody elses) doesn't at all live upto the commercialised image of what love is. Valentines day is purely commercial and the retailers have created some perfect idealistic image of what love and romance is and for that one day, most people try to live upto the image. it is like a mini mental holiday where some faith is restored in a persons mind about the fantasy of love and they seperate it from the reality.

fuck retailers charging 8 dollars for a single rose just because they know people will be desperate for flowers. fuck valentines day.

tim
2005-02-14, 19:35
Just because you are miserable doesn't mean everyone else has to be too.

Criminal_Sniper
2005-02-15, 15:29
and just cause u r does everyone else have to be?

whats the goal?
something called happyness
which goes in time
boredom comes in
and when it is lacking we have unhappyness
the human condition is made no better by happyness though it is much more benificial that sadness

i think that valentines day makes as many people realize the love that have and as people realize the lack of it

love is not for those who make u happy
would u like it if everyone hated u untill they met u or got to know u?

just some random thoughts here
:/ nothing new there

i wanna see the orgy though
on every block people fuckin on the streets
woohoo

tim
2005-02-15, 18:21
and just cause u r does everyone else have to be?

whats the goal?
something called happyness
which goes in time
boredom comes in
and when it is lacking we have unhappyness
the human condition is made no better by happyness though it is much more benificial that sadness

i think that valentines day makes as many people realize the love that have and as people realize the lack of it

love is not for those who make u happy
would u like it if everyone hated u untill they met u or got to know u?

just some random thoughts here
:/ nothing new there

i wanna see the orgy though
on every block people fuckin on the streets
woohoo

they cant hate what they don't know

Criminal_Sniper
2005-02-16, 14:47
innocence is a factor
but ignorance is not

Dollar_Girl
2005-02-17, 13:07
they cant hate what they don't know



Many times, those that observe you, know things about u, that u are completely unaware of.

tim
2005-02-17, 14:08
Many times, those that observe you, know things about u, that u are completely unaware of.

true. and I feel a little sorry about your foot.

Criminal_Sniper
2005-02-21, 13:30
sometimes u are also unaware of those who observe u and notice the obvious that u never do