Hey Everyone!
As many here know, I'm often prone to taking polls here in the forums... Now good old Valentine's Day is inspiring me to try asking you all to take a poll of the people around you in real life and report back here with your findings.
Here's the challenge: ask the people around you what they're doing for Valentine's Day, then tell us what the answers were.
If you're too shy to talk to the people around you, make it easy on yourself! Ask your parents, siblings, or people you're comfortable with, and use a text or IM if you don't want to ask in person or on the phone.
Now, if hearing about someone else's V-Day with their significant other is going to depress you, by all means, please don't do this. But my whole point of this exercise is that, while I'd be happy to have a Valentine to treat and spend time with, as the years pass, I'm surprised to find... that we may not be missing out on all that much.
Here are the answers I got tonight when I casually asked my co-workers, "Hey, what are you doing for Valentine's Day?"
* "Nothing. Valentine's Day is nothing but commercialized nonsense that tries to get you to spend money."
* "Nothing. I (and/or my significant other) are working/taking care of our kids. (It's just a regular day for us.)"
* "Nothing. Valentine's Day is just too expensive and we don't have the money for a babysitter, fancy dinners, or gifts we really don't need."
* "We might go out to dinner--if we can coordinate the time when we're both not working."
And there you have it... So far. I know so many of us dream of heart-filled days of love and colorful presents on Valentine's Day, but the reality is... We might not be missing out on all that much.
If we were all closer, I personally think it would be cool to throw a big Single's Anti-Valentine's Party. We could decorate with black roses and have an all-you-can-eat pizza buffet.
However, I'm happy to report that in my family, romance is still alive and well. My parents have been married a long, long (long) time, and my Dad made a "card" out of a golf score card (he literally tore it into the shape of a heart--apparently, manly men don't use scissors), wrote, "I love you" on it, and left it for my Mom to find on the seat of her car.
Aaawww.
Love is in the air.
So... if you dare, ask a few people what they're doing for Totally Commercialized Obligatory Reminders of Love Day.
I would love to know the answers. (Just in case someone gives you an answer that can't be repeated in this forum... Uh... just pretty it up a little bit and say something like, "One person I asked said they were spending some quality time with their spouse.")
As many here know, I'm often prone to taking polls here in the forums... Now good old Valentine's Day is inspiring me to try asking you all to take a poll of the people around you in real life and report back here with your findings.
Here's the challenge: ask the people around you what they're doing for Valentine's Day, then tell us what the answers were.
If you're too shy to talk to the people around you, make it easy on yourself! Ask your parents, siblings, or people you're comfortable with, and use a text or IM if you don't want to ask in person or on the phone.
Now, if hearing about someone else's V-Day with their significant other is going to depress you, by all means, please don't do this. But my whole point of this exercise is that, while I'd be happy to have a Valentine to treat and spend time with, as the years pass, I'm surprised to find... that we may not be missing out on all that much.
Here are the answers I got tonight when I casually asked my co-workers, "Hey, what are you doing for Valentine's Day?"
* "Nothing. Valentine's Day is nothing but commercialized nonsense that tries to get you to spend money."
* "Nothing. I (and/or my significant other) are working/taking care of our kids. (It's just a regular day for us.)"
* "Nothing. Valentine's Day is just too expensive and we don't have the money for a babysitter, fancy dinners, or gifts we really don't need."
* "We might go out to dinner--if we can coordinate the time when we're both not working."
And there you have it... So far. I know so many of us dream of heart-filled days of love and colorful presents on Valentine's Day, but the reality is... We might not be missing out on all that much.
If we were all closer, I personally think it would be cool to throw a big Single's Anti-Valentine's Party. We could decorate with black roses and have an all-you-can-eat pizza buffet.
However, I'm happy to report that in my family, romance is still alive and well. My parents have been married a long, long (long) time, and my Dad made a "card" out of a golf score card (he literally tore it into the shape of a heart--apparently, manly men don't use scissors), wrote, "I love you" on it, and left it for my Mom to find on the seat of her car.
Aaawww.
Love is in the air.
So... if you dare, ask a few people what they're doing for Totally Commercialized Obligatory Reminders of Love Day.
I would love to know the answers. (Just in case someone gives you an answer that can't be repeated in this forum... Uh... just pretty it up a little bit and say something like, "One person I asked said they were spending some quality time with their spouse.")