Valentino Incognito

I forgot that Valentine's in two days.

Particularly because we never celebrate V Day.

My hunney and I, we have established long ago that we don't celebrate V-day. Nevermind that the whole country or the whole world for that matter seem to throw themselves in romantic lovey dovey mood, we apparently strongly believed that there's no one day that should be deemed to be THE day to express love that is supposed to be a continuously ongoing process. I want to keep it that way because I feel the whole idea somewhat pretentious. If only, over the years, this practice has only cultivated a generation of materialistic minds more than the people's intention on the celebration of love in all its essence.

We have for years now free ourselves from the typicality of romanticism and stop fuelling the conspiracy of florists shops and candy houses who poison the minds of the sentimentals into believing that paying triple the necessary amount on flowers and chocolates and wasting money on them for loved ones will keep the relationship lasting forever.

They don't. they just make fools out of lovers. Love is to be a daily year long celebration in the smaller moments and more normal happenings called LIFE.

To be honest, I have been on V-day dates before; and while the guys I've been on it with thought it was in celebration of Valentine's, I had considered them more of a normal sort of date. So they were under pressure to impress and I remember how I kept telling at least one of them to lighten up. In one particular year I even went out on two dates in a day, piling on the hypocrissy into the concept of pure love. I wasn't faithful and need'nt be as I wasn't in any relationship. Just taking advantage of other people's interest in me and their obsession with the idea of having someone to celebrate V-day with. Back then, V-day or not, I had a thing for plush stuffed toys and beanie babies and chocolates, and V-day provided a chance to obtain these free in abundance - so I liked V-day for the things I get from it, not for love. hihi...

I'm way past that age now. While I like cute toys still, I don't really want to collect them anymore and I have more than enough chocolates perpetually stocked up to last me all year round and flowers I can totally live without. I have no other reason to want to have anyone materialistically celebrate me on V-day unless it involves just cold hard cash for me to do with as I please, that, inherently beats the whole idea of V-day romanticism. Besides, I celebrate love-day everyday with my handsome husband who's plusher than a stuffed toy and more delicious than chocolate!!

so tomorrow, both of us will be celebrating life and frienship and family instead..

Happy weekends people.

Love.

Emme and Hubby