Valen*bleh*tine's Day

So, let's pretend that we don't live in a greed driven society that has brought about some of the worst sides of mankind this world has seen. Let us pretend, for a moment, that people aren't killed on a daily basis in car accidents because they're obsessed with being first to their freeway exit. Let us pretend, also, that we actually care about those unfortunate beings living on the streets, rather than figuring out a multitude of ways to ignore them when they ask for some assistance.

So now we're pretending that these atrocious behaviors of mankind don't exist, are you still following along?

Now, let us celebrate a holiday celebrating a Catholic Saint who was, reportedly, the epitome of compassion and caring. We take his name, drop the "Saint" and market chocolates, roses, and all sorts of overly priced shimmering rocks that aren't worth one thousand times their weight in gold.

Have you ever given serious thought as to why we have holidays in this country? We have a Veteran's day, but the only people who celebrate it are veterans, or people who are emotionally close to veterans and know how important that day is to us. We have a president's day... to remember our... presidents? Meanwhile, the media slanders and mocks the one that's currently in office (technically, it'd be libel, not slander, as it's through a medium of the media, but for argument's sake, I figured more people would understand the term "slander" than "libel").

We celebrate Easter, which is, supposedly, to commemorate the day that the Christian's token celebrity, Jesus Christ, rose from the dead after being crucified. But we have chocolate bunnies and painted eggs?

We don't have off for Ramadan or Hanukkah. No one can honestly tell you what Kwanza is unless they’ve had to tell someone what it was before.
We have Columbus day. Which is awesome. I bet the Caribbean natives love that holiday.
I can’t imagine what this country would do if a fully practicing Shiite would take to the streets for Ashura on the tenth day of Muharram (some Sunnis also participate in Ashura, but the holiday tends to be primarily Shi’a).


Why do we need a “special” day to tell someone how we feel about them through gifts? Is that how monetaricentric (yes, I think I made that word up, but it works here) our society has become, that we’re expected to buy gifts for someone else to show how much we care about them?
Since when has money equaled caring?
Should not every opportunity throughout the entirety of a day be taken to show one’s love and affection? Why must that cost money?

For five years I bought into this monetary conception of “love”. At the end of the five years, all I was left with was a bill, and without a significant other. So the amount of money spent on someone has zero affect on whether or not love is present.

With the current model, greed is the center of a common relationship.


I want LOVE to be the center of my relationship.

Question is: what’s in the center of your relationship this Valentine’s Day?

For Reference

Below, you will find everyone's blog URL. The purpose of me posting this is for those who did not obtain everyone's address for following purposes.

http://witismansgreattreasure.blogspot.com/
http://paydirts.blogspot.com/
http://joeyhev.blogspot.com/
http://brelogicblog.blogspot.com/
http://focusedonmyfuture.blogspot.com/
http://iwinhahahaha.blogspot.com/
http://kaylinzthabest.blogspot.com/
http://jonnilogic.blogspot.com/
http://dustinlogic.blogspot.com/
http://alsmith-ashley.blogspot.com/
http://jason-haner.blogspot.com/
http://logiclog.blogspot.com/
http://mylogicbeatsyourlogic.blogspot.com/
http://slrthompson.blogspot.com/
http://shimmelrobert.blogspot.com/
http://sham5248.blogspot.com/
http://codyistheman1-theshizzle.blogspot.com/
http://tiffany-holmes.blogspot.com/
http://whydidthis.blogspot.com/
http://quadiesha.blogspot.com/
http://yajairasblog.blogspot.com/

All other blogs were unable to be obtained due to their inability to post anything, therefore there was not a link to their posts.

Hope this helps.