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Happy Unimaginative , Consumer Based, Shallow Interpretation of Romance day

// February 14th, 2009 // Uncategorized

A cheezy student film set to XTC’s Man Who Murdered Love:

I hate Valentines Day but not for the reason one might think. It is not because I’m jaded, or anti love and romance. it because i hate … hate the bastardation the ove, caring ad romance have taken on this day.

I hate how love and romance are expected … EXPECTED on this day. I had people i have dated and their friends actaully give me crap for not wanting to be cliche about things. Which I do not understand. Why give someone crap for trying to be better then to bull crap this day entails. i don’t know i guess its the tradition the is drilled in to our heads as children. I don’t like it.

So let me explain my reasons:

Romance should be an everyday thing in a relationship. If it is not, you might need to take a good hard look at why you are in that relationship. I feel that a gift or romantic action means more if it completly unexpected, possible handmade, and done “just because”.

I don’t want my actions to be part of the norm. The next relationship I am in I want to be extraordinary and amazing expereince. I want her to tell her friends “hey guess what Richard did? How cool was that?” One way to do that is to be spontaneous and unpredictable with your romance. I tend to close my eyes and randomly hit a day on the calender and without warning, spring my version of V Day. Ans watch

To me that completly means soo much more and is more genuine.

So Happy Saturday to you all. I do wish you all well and hopefully your day will be a good one, fake romance and all.