Ladies and Gentlemen, your attention please! Your humble blogger would like to call to your attention the date: Today is January 17th. This means that you have just FOUR WEEKS remaining until Valentine’s Day…
Of course, unless you are housebound (or live in a cave) you probably already knew that. Certainly, if you spend any time whatsoever in retail stores, you will already have noticed the disappearance of the Christmas displays and the gradual increase of candies, stuffed toys, greeting cards, heart-shaped editions of merchandise that is not normally offered in a heart-shaped configuration, and rapid increases in the use of the color pink. The real question is what you intend to do about it…
As noted last year in this space, many women and those men who suffer from compulsive disorders have already begun shopping for the ideal V-Day gift; the women are (for the most part) already dreaming romantic dreams about a night in which their significant other manages to do and say exactly what they’d like him to do/say for once, while the men just need something to occupy their time, since they’ve already completed and mailed their income tax forms for last year…
If your plans involve getting something over the Internet (or more primitive forms of mail-order commerce) you would be well advised to put them in motion now; otherwise you face the possibility of shipping delays, lost packages, fraud or theft interfering with your big moment. It doesn’t matter if you are suing a fraudulent retailer or having someone arrested and prosecuted for mail theft if you’re left standing empty-handed on V-Day and your significant other is the type who will measure your feelings for him/her on the basis of what you’ve acquired for this occasion…
If your plans involve reservations (restaurant, hotel, airplane, boat, train, or whatever) you would also do well to make those reservations at once; you may already be too late for the most popular choices, but I don’t intend to start issuing these Public Service Announcements in September just to make sure you act in time. Get busy on those telephones and you might be able to come up with something better than last year’s three hour wait for a table fiasco…
Which brings me to the real point of this humorous post, at least to the extent that it has one. A holiday – any holiday – is supposed to be something you enjoy. If you are putting so much pressure on yourself and/or your significant other that Valentine’s Day has become something that either of you dread (because you can’t ever seem to please your partner, or because he or she can never seem to live up to your expectations) then you need to re-examine your priorities. We’re living in a world filled with fear, hatred, anger, desperation, despair and anguish; if you can’t lighten up enough to enjoy a simple lover's festival, sappy and corny though it might be, Hallmark Holiday though it may have become, then I really don’t think anything heart-shaped is going to help you…
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