BAAAA - LOVEBUG

It's that time of year again. That day when all those with a significant someone spend ridiculous amounts of money (making the makers of chocolates, flowers, teddy bears, and greeting cards clap their hands in prosperous glee) while the those who lack a love-struck someone furrow their collective brow in disgust at it all. There is also, of course, those individuals who have disfunctional attitude glands and get abhorably happy during every holiday... but our discussion today does not include the festive-loving fringes of our society, but the average Joe or Janice Shmoe. Is Valentine's Day destined to be loved by those in love and detested by the dateless?

I say, "It doesn't have to be that way!" I wish there was a font that would be universally recognized as needing to be read by some confident super-hero guy in that confident super-hero voice so that I could instantly convince you that I was right. Without such a tool I will have to rely on good arguments and fancy rhetoric... or at least a cool slogan.

Let us make Valentine's Day a day for a new kind of love. Let's make it a day where we take the time to love and appreciate our friends. You know... friends: Those people who are probably cool enough to hang out with somebody with better hair than you but for some unexplainable reason they hang out with you anyway. Those people. Did you realize that we have a day designated for leprechauns, mouthy mythological midgets who havn't done anything for any of us, and yet there's no holiday set aside just to appreciate a good friend? Can I get a "What the heck? That ain't right Mr. Blogger Man."?

No? Ok, moving on then...

This Valentine's Day, whether you're single or one of those annoyingly lovey couples, take time to let your friends know that you really appreciate their tendancy to hang out with you. Let them know they're swell and that if something heavy fell out of the sky and crushed them to that you'd totally take the day off from school or work to write a touching poem about how cool they were.

Ok, good arguments... check. Fancy rhetoric... check. Cool slogan... oh right, I said I'd have a cool slogan. Ok, here goes...

"Forget Valentines Day, I'd rather do Love-yer-pals Day!"

What's that? You think I'm lame and you imagine that any friends I might have once had just left to find people with better hair? Yeah... ok. I'll go now. But seriously think about Love-yer-pals Day. The worst thing we do every day is underappreciate the ones we love.