V-day.

Valentines Day. A day where there are 2 main emotions floating around in the air. Love and despair.

Like all situations, there are 2 sides of the coin here, the side everybody looks at and the side everybody just simply ignores.

Side 1: Love
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I'm sure you all are familiar with this emotion This situation is mostly for couples.
During the build up towards V-Day, you see boyfriends fretting on what to get for their girlfriends. Some ask for advice their friends, some ask advice from their girlfriends friends. Some don't anybody and just get a gift themselves.

This is also a time where you see lots of couples sprouting out left right and center. Everybody thinks this is the perfect time to confess to the person you like. Send them a gift and ask them to be your valentine. If you get accepted then it's Happy Valentine's Day! for you, if not then its despair for you.

Anyway, so girls are normally showered with gifts and some guys are given gifts as well. You see clubs going for class to class delivering gifts ordered by other people. And you see quite a number of teachers annoyed by this.

Not to mention the fact that there are always those couples PDA-ing oblivious to the outside world. And if you have more liberal parents and a deep wallet, you go and take your girl out on a date. Go watch a romantic movie, have a fancy candlelight dinner, topped of with a late night stroll in a park somewhere.


Side 2: Despair.


Most of you would be familiar with this emotion, especially if you're older. This is situation is mostly for those who are single, recently single or recently rejected.

You walk around everyday, looking at the happy couples around you. You wish you could be like them. If you're older(like 25 and above) you wonder when you're gonna get a girlfriend, and maybe marry her and settle down.

If you like someone, you can only gaze at a distance and dream of being with her. But you know of the harsh reality that, that will never happen. You do weird things like stare at her picture for hours at a time, wishing that she'll accept you. you curse yourself silently for not having the guts to go and tell her your true feelings.

Basically, you despair because you don't have what the people on side :1 have.


Obviously I'm talking from the relationship point of view of Valentine's Day. I'm sure some people would beg to differ on my definition of Valentine's Day. I understand that there are various ways to view Valentine's Day, But just I'm talking about it from this angle.