Sometimes Happy Valentine's Day

Alexis Kowaleski
Edited by Trisha Vankoughnett and Noah Shepardson

Valentine’s Day celebrates the love you have for your significant other or in other cases the love that you don’t share resulting in bitterly sleeping the day away.
Each holiday is easier when you’re younger. Every Valentine’s Day students pass out valentines to everyone in class, everyone got the chalky hearts and no one was left out. The older we get the less people we have taking the time to tell us that we are loved.
Those that are single always find a way to make Valentine’s Day a holiday of anti-love.
“This year I don’t have a valentine…I’m having an anti-Valentine’s Day dinner with my other single roommate,” Jackie Brown of Royal Oak said.
Even some couples don’t truly buy into the idea of a day celebrating love.
“I’ll be sitting in my room sleeping all day, probably watching TV…my boyfriend doesn’t go to CMU so if he comes up here to surprise me then maybe we’ll go out to eat,” Nicole Welch of Southfield said.
However bitter or unenthusiastic some people may be about Valentine’s Day there still remains a glimmer of romanticism in some students.
“I would say I go all out for my boyfriend, I always like to get him something really sweet and thoughtful,” Jenna Andrews of Sterling Heights said.
Couples always enjoy a good night out on the town for the Valentine holiday. Sometimes even a dinner and movie will prove romantic enough for couples.
No matter how romantic a Valentine’s Day can be, many people are haunted by past holiday’s that were not so perfect.
“My worst Valentine’s Day was my senior year of high school, I filled my boyfriend’s locker with hearts and decorations and all day he ignored it like I was nothing,” Brown said.
No matter what the past and present Valentine’s Days have brought to people, there will always be the true romantics decorating the day with red hearts and there will always be the cynic’s ignoring the love around them.