There’s a day for literally everyone- but never for single people and never for people who have no one.
There’s:
-Father’s Day / Mother’s Day – both assuming you’re married with children, but even if you don’t have a partner, you still have children
-Christmas / Thanksgiving – both assuming you have family, or family who give a shit about you
-Valentine’s Day – need I say anything for this one?
It’s like people are only celebrated IF they are a mother, father, couple, etc etc. Nobody ever celebrates the single people who do not overpopulate the Earth. Are we not important because we do not have someone else?
So since single people never get celebrated, here’s to the single and lonely. *Cheers*
Now drink that arsenic-laced wine!
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Cheers. Can I have some bleach with my arsenic please?
Why bother paying attention to artificial holidays?
Many of these remembrances were created by advertisers, merchants, and the greeting card industry who are all peddling their products; they want you to buy whatever it is they’re selling, so they come up with some bullshit holiday to fool the masses into thinking they need to spend money on unnecessary swill which will demonstrate to the recipient how much the gift-giver cares.
Celebrate your resistance from the influence of clever marketing, don’t fall prey to BS holidays.
You said it better than me. CHEERS!
But for people who do have a p.artner/significant other of some sort, it’s not advisable to spend holidays like Valentine’s Day in a bar talking with randoms while you ignore your “special someone” and say nothing nice to them to show you value them. This kind of thing will definitely make people want to break up with you.
Valentine’s Day was created by shopkeepers in New York City who hadn’t sold all of their Christmas chocolate. The chocolate needed to get off the shelves, so they came up with a brilliant marketing ploy to offload 2 month old candy.
I’m surprised that people, (the general public actually), falls for these shameless commerce ploys. Then again, I shouldn’t be surprised considering that brainwashed people never seem to realize that they’re brainwashed.
So what, women like to feel like their significant other thinks they’re special. They could at least say, “Happy Valentine’s Day. We both know this is a commercial holiday, and so we’re not going to be cliche and celebrate “today,” but let’s do something fun/memorable some other time soon.” THIS would show consideration of people’s feelings, because when all the other girls at work are receiving gifts, and one’s own p.artner does nothing at all, it makes one feel shitty.
(Coming from someone who seems to always date men who do not celebrate Valentine’s Day or give material gifts on any other day. I mean hey, I like giving people material gifts I think they’ll enjoy. That makes ME happy. It can be anytime, doesn’t have to be on a “commercial holiday.”)
I’d wager to guess most men would rather get a gift that isn’t a card, flowers or chocolate. Oh, and hey, it doesn’t even have to happen on an artificial holiday!
Having my partner forcibly buy presents and celebrate a holiday just because it’s what everyone else is doing feels like a lie and a stupid competition with others. I guess It’s a matter of values for everyone.
Yeah, but in order to receive those kind of gifts, both people need to treat one another well so that they won’t feel resentful and will want to have fun together. That means being thoughtful, considerate, a good listener, honest, sincere, and as non-judgmental as possible. IMO. Other people might have lower standards than me. (:
Holidays are BS. Most people don’t realize that holidays were created by big brand companies to trick people into buying useless decorations and presents, then we celebrate throwing our money away. Ask yourself, why do you need someone else to tell you what to celebrate and when to celebrate it. It’s such a sham.
Whether you believe holidays are a sham or not, that’s not the point of this post. I was highlighting the point that couples and families are celebrated, but single people are not.
I didn’t realize it until just now, but I’ve sort of claimed Thanksgiving and Christmas as my own private Single Alone Family-Less Days. I use those days to lie in bed watching movies drinking cheap wine, thanking the gods that I don’t have to go to some miserable family gathering and bring potato salad. So those are actually good days for me. The worst holiday for me is New Years because there’s no way around it, anyone who’s alone on New Years is f*ing pathetic.
I’m always alone on New Years and I don’t think I’m pathetic. What makes New Years different from xmas or Thanksgiving?
I think New Years is the one holiday that’s really rammed down our throats that we have to be partying. Other holidays, Christmas, Valentines, etc can be celebrated in quiet personal ways, but society screams PARTY on Dec 31. That’s why it’s the only holiday that makes me feel pathetic when I stay home alone and go to bed at 9pm. Could be just me. I have too many memories of fun parties that night, it’s just a reminder of how far I’ve fallen.
Sh*t happens and life changes. Maybe the universe is trying to tell you to spend more time with yourself. If you want to party and not be alone, could always go to a bar and drink/meet with other like-minded singles drinking by themselves? (in cities, but don’t know about small towns) You do have choices, stay home and enjoy “me” time or go out of your comfort zone and explore, you’ll never know what you’ll find.
LOL! Don’t even ask me when I last kissed someone on New Years Eve because I can’t remember. (It’s been that long.)
Oh god the dreaded New Years kiss or lack thereof. Whoever invented that tradition needs a clog to the nuts.
Holidays are indeed 79% more depressing when one is single and unattached.
Add preexisting depression to the mix, and the percentage increases to 99%.
Add the extra bonus 1% if there happens to be vodka.
(In my case, yup.)
Around Thanksgiving, Christmas and New Year’s Eve, I am extremely suicidal. Nothing worse than knowing you are completely alone and you feel a deep pain in your heart. I imagine couples look at me like I’m pathetic. Fuck this. I’m not going through another year of this bullshit. If it’s not the holidays I have to suffer through, then it’s my birthday in the summer and again, there’s more depression for being a failure. None of it is worth it. It’s basically year-round suffering.
It’s unsurprising that people celebrate their relationships. I don’t have a problem with that, and I don’t think it makes much sense to celebrate being single, orphaned, or friendless, because those are basically just the absence of relationships.
Celebrations have always been social in nature, and it makes sense to e.g. invite a lonely person to your wedding party, because they might forge new relationships there.
What is different today is that market forces have created an industry around celebrations, where you are continually exposed to ones you are not a part of.
This obviously feeds your loneliness.
That being said, if you want to celebrate being alone, why not do it on the 1st of January?
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