Houstonian Impact

Episode 4 of the Houstonian Impact podcast has been released and guess who guest hosted. Me I did.

Valentine’s Day

I hate Valentine’s Day.

The idea that everyone should openly and publicly express their love on one single day of the year just disgusts me.

I have never been fond of public displays of affection, but that isn’t really what upsets me so much about Valentine’s Day.

No, it is more about the fact that if you truly care for someone- if you truly love someone- you shouldn’t just show it only once every 365/366 days.

Love is something that you should show every single day of the year. There is absolutely no reason for you not express your feelings toward that person every day.

Why do we wait for the seasonal initiative to grant us the opportunity to care about people? All that seasonal initiative does is prompt people to buy crappy stuffed animals, terrible candy, robotically cloned jewels and mass-produced cards that babble how unique and wonderful you and your love is.

People always want to talk about how unique their special someone is but handing that person, that you think may or may not be the raddest thing ever, a card that a million other people are getting, is not beautiful or unique.

Really, expressing your feelings for someone doesn’t even have to be some big overdrawn gesture for all of the world to see.

What ever happened to the days of modesty and personal comfort? Nowadays, instead of people making gestures for their loved ones, these gestures have become outlandish moments to gather the entire world’s attention and try to one-up everyone else.

Valentine’s Day and relationships have stopped being a personal matter and have become a way for all of society to denote the way people are doing. Society has basically obligated any couples to gift crap to one another or listen to all of the assumptions that there is something wrong with their relationship.

It is no one else’s damned business how you handle the devotion of your affections.

Instead of sprinkling glitter filled balloons and belly dancers from the roof of Rockefeller Center, why can’t you just say something.

Why can’t people be more personal? Just find that person you happen to adore and tell them, “Hey. I know that everyone around us is acting like a pack of crazy humping pink dogs on crack and that’s fine for them, but that’s just not necessary. But I still want you to know that I straight up care for you [insert varying levels of devotion] and think you are rad and want to spend time with you and maybe touch your butt- not that we have to do that. Nonetheless you’re cool.”

Or whatever. If you care enough, all I am saying is that you should take the initiative and rock its entire world because love isn’t that unique and spectacular if you can’t celebrate it daily.

So, to those who do listen to me rant, and those who actually care, express you emotional sentiments as you please, just don’t forget you don’t have to wait for holidays to do so.