Different Takes on Valentine’s Day by Patricia Forsythe

A holiday that celebrates love is a good thing, right?  Even if it has turned into a day to gladden the hearts of chocolate manufacturers around the world.  Even if some of the sayings in Valentine’s cards are so corny that if you gave one to your significant other, that loved one would roll on the ground guffawing loudly.  You can say these things to little kids under the age of eight.  They already know you say corny things.

 For example:

A hundred hearts would be too few to carry all my love for you.

Happy Valentine’s Day to the Sweetest Valentine I could want.  You are my sweetheart and I’m glad you’re mine.  Or maybe that last word was ‘wine’.  It’s hard to tell from the extravagant printing on the card I was looking at.

They who love are but one step from heaven. James Russell Lowell (Well, okay, he was an American Romantic poet, so maybe we can give him a pass on the flowery language).

For the past few years, however, I’ve seen a disturbing trend in Valentine’s Day cards.  Some of them have a decidedly dark, and even self-centered message.

More examples:

I’m so excited for Valentine’s Day.  All the chocolate is gonna be on sale.

Valentine’s Day sucks!

Happy Singles Awareness Day

Obviously, some people look at the holiday as a good thing and some as a bad thing, but these sound like someone has a severe attitude problem.  My take on this is that days which celebrate love are worthwhile because, truly, no one is ever single unless they choose that sad state.  There is always someone who needs and deserves your love, compassion, and caring.  Valentine’s Day doesn’t have to be only about receiving love.  It can be about giving it, too.  And you can always share your chocolate.

 

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Patricia Forsythe is the author of more than thirty romances, both traditionally published and ebook published.  Visit her at patriciaforsythebooks.com.  Her next traditionally published romance will be Her Lone Cowboy, available in June 2015 from Harlequin Heartwarming book.