The only thing i consider are cheap chocolates shaped like hearts on stores right after it.

Me: what’s with all these dumbasses in line to buy flower? Ooohh….

I’m just glad to see someone else spell it as “valentimes”, highfive

It’s a fake holiday created by corporations to sell people things they don’t need.

The day is one which the bourgeois class used to capitalise on basic human emotions, I have no interest in it

Spent most of my 20s single and lonely. I typically would get fed up seeing all the ads and hearts and stuff, felt like it was getting rubbed in my face. Started using it as an excuse to go hang with my other single friends and grab some drinks for “anti-V day”. We didnt really sit around and hate on it, just would hang out like any other night. All in all it was a great solution, it didnt solve me being single but it wasnt lonely and we would all have fun.

Eventually I met someone good for me. Been together awhile now, and the funny thing is Vday has less meaning than ever. We do things for each other throughout the year because we want to. Going out for a nice dinner on Valentine’s actually sucks, so I usually just cook something decent and we chill on the couch. If we do decide to go out we do it two weeks before or after when its actually calm in a restaurant. Thats about it.

Felt kinda sad about it, but I feel sad most days so it’s not really any different. Hung out with a friend which was nice.

Im not sure what to think as ive never been in love or had friends, im only 20 and this it somewhat uncommon i think?

That’s not uncommon. It’s not good if you’re not happy with your situation. Good luck and hope that gets better.

Valentines day is pushed in everyone’s face because it’s ultra-commercialised and there’s money to be made. “Buy her diamonds this Valentines day”… WTF. It’s overhyped. People can celebrate as they like. People can ignore it as they please.

I’m single so I don’t care. Maybe next time I won’t be single and I will care.

There are happily married people that don’t celebrate Valentine’s Day. It’s a Hallmark holiday—i.e. it was invented by a greeting card company. Its only meaning is the one you give it. Why give it the power to make you feel bad?

What’s in a day? Eg Christmas is just another day, go for walk, enjoy yourself read a book.

I’m ethnic Chinese and I dont think people in China dated in highschool and I think diasporas (especially kids of 1st gen parents) have some of same tendencies of “you better have good grades” so I don’t think its exactly abnormal to not have a romantic relationship for someone like me. Like at least half of Asians I talked to did not have a romantic relationship.

So yea I never even attempted to have romance with anyone… tbf the urges were not even that high… idk why… might be partly asexual or something… Idk how to even masturbate…

As for friends… well idk if I ever had “friends” cuz I like never really hang out with people outside of school… so… yea its more like “acquaintances” in my view.

But after highschool was done its basically no contact at this point… thanks mom for not letting me have a phone for like the last 3/4 of highschool… (well tbf I broke my last one and they never wanted to replace it so… I guess its my fault sort of… 🙃)

My older brother doesn’t ever have romance either, so yea I’m not alone in “being alone” lmfao, he’s a racist shithead and socially awkward…

So my mom was afraid he’d “be alone for the rest of his life” so arranged via her networks of “friends of friends” for him to meet some girl in China… and he just got a 10 year visa to visit China lol… so yeah…

And yea I’m also Gen Z in early 20s

Wait… It is Valentine’s Day!

Don’t worry about it, this holiday isn’t for everyone. I simply spent it with some singles I know. And tomorrow is the Singles Awareness Day for the rest of us :D

1. ValentiNes

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