Valentine’s weekend

Why Valentine’s? Part One: Oh me, Oh my, Oh me, Oh WHY?

Please, give me zombies anytime! Sorry to be negative, but here’s one side of my Valentine’s Day coin…

I know that Valentine’s Day is supposed to be a day of celebration and love, a time for sharing flowers, chocolates and mass produced printed greetings cards with a loved one, yet at the same time it gives wannabe romancers a chance to send their messages of love to someone who they have the absolute worst crush-of-all-time on, and this someone does not even know that the wannabe exists.

Why does the wannabe need to build up the courage to send an anonymous card to their piece of infatuation and not put their name on it? The wannabe will probably never be able to look their ‘target’ in the eye ever again, just in case the person they sent their message of never-ending-love to realises it was them who sent it. The target will never realise it, and instead will think that the card is from the figment of their infatuation. And they will not be able to look this person in the eye because they didn’t send  a Valentine’s to them.

I don’t know. I think Valentine’s isn’t about love. I think it’s about want. How to show the want. Without showing that it is you that wants it…

Another thing that I find funny about Valentine’s Day are the couples who send each other anonymous Valentine’s cards, but in their own handwriting! Ooh, I wonder who this is from? And the arguments that ensue when one of the couple receives an extra card from someone. Probably the wannabe, who neither of the couple know.

I’m not anti-couple. Please don’t get me wrong. I’m also not anti-love. Or anti-Valentine’s Day for that matter. The Aquatom Corporation is set to launch an exciting greetings card range in June this year, and we will be announcing the move of Valentine’s Day from February 14th to July 8th. Traditionalists may oppose this move, of which they have every right, but the move has been arranged. In a Leap Year, February 29th will also be Valentine’s Day, so every four years or so there will be two Valentine’s Days in a year. This is so those who like Valentine’s in February can have one every now and then. The wannabes will love that one! Oh, and look out for our elite range of Valentine’s cards. Slightly more expensive than the regular cards you see, but they come in packs of twelve cards, so you can be spoiled for choice as to who of the people who don’t know you, you can send one to. They also come with a state of the art wobbling pen, so you can disguise your handwriting. The Aquatom Corporation loves love. Love loves love. Love loves money. That’s our slogan… we think it is quite catchy.

That’s a few months away. Many years ago, I received a Valentine’s card off a wannabe. She wasn’t a very good wannabe as I saw her hiding around the corner for about an hour before running up to the door to post the card. She had written her name and telephone number in the card, which kind of defies the reasoning behind the mystery of the Valentine’s card. Unless you are in a couple and you can pretend you don’t know who the card is off, isn’t the mystery one of the ‘fun’ bits about the cards? Maybe I’m looking too deeply into things here. I couldn’t look this girl in the eye again after receiving the card… I don’t know if she knew that I saw her post it or not, but I mean to say…

I kind of feel bad about writing that. She had to build up all the courage she could to post the card, which is a good thing. If there is something you want, you really should do what you can to get it. But some things literally are un-reachable, and unfortunately for her, I was. Not in a big-headed way; just in my way. Sorry about that.

Coming in Part Two… The Up Side to Valentine’s.