Happy Valentine's Day!
I don't get why people complain about commercialization on holidays, but not the rest of the year.
It would make some practical sense: on a few days a year, you moan about what a con it all is. Get the darkness out of your system. Then the rest of the year you're happy, right?
But... our lives are far more commercialized than holidays. I don't resent people for trying to make money on Valentine's Day, or from peddling Christmas gifts. I resent people for, please excuse this dreary relentless unoriginal observation, shredding wild places like cabbage for cole slaw or stale bread for schnitzels and replacing them with gas stations and Subways and room for more people, as if we were running a shortage.
Holidays are days when I decide not to care about this at all. While y'all get cynimical, I take a break from critiquing the human machine. Valentine's Day - didn't do anything with it really, but I'm glad it's around, and I'm glad to be around for it! Really! Have fun with sweethearts! Hearts and chocolates! Themed drinks at Starbucks! That's just holiday cheer. A salesperson on my back asking me repeatedly if I need "help," now that's intrusive. Heart-themed stuff on Valentine's Day just reminds me what day it is. I like it.
Woke up early, taught 6 hours in a row, helped all 9 students as well as I could. Bought a couple used DVDs, fell in love with a brief blizzard, most awesome snowy whipping gusts I remember ever seeing! For a flash I worried a trash can might pick up and hit me! That was exciting!
