Valentine's: Stupidity Ecstasy

            It is a common and, funnily enough, a traditional belief that Valentine’s Day is a time for lovers to actually bloom and emphasize their love for each other. On the contrary, it is actually a perfect time for the vile monster of superficiality to loom around and poke every fool’s brain out of their almost hollow skulls. It is in fact a day of steaming hot stupidity.

            Seen from a totally different and practical point of view, this notoriously sweet day appears to be not so sweet at all. First of, students who are supposedly sent to exclusive schools to study and develop potentially brilliant brain cells pay too much attention to the scrupulously useless things they do to impress partners. With this sudden gush of seemingly uncontrollable Romeo-and-Juliet-like emotions, they abandon the fact that exams are looming over them – bringing signs and shadows of academic doom. Along with all the preparations come the purse-penetrating expenditures. It is utterly unthinkable and impractical to spend galleons for the extremely over-priced bears, roses, chocolates, balloons and all other paraphernalia of cheesiness while the parents had to work cranium-cracking jobs just to send their children the money intended for more important purposes. It’s like getting small pints of sugar and petals for a special someone in exchange for a month’s worth of somebody else’s efforts. Plus, the mere existence and display of amorous behavior along every hallway and corner during this time of the month makes every single muscle in my system cringe in disgust (no offense to those who gets pangs of hits). Demoralized and immoral youngsters make out everywhere like the world is ending tomorrow and to die a virgin is a first class ticket to hell. Craziness far beyond any sane mind’s imagination but true – the ways of celebrating this V day has gone beyond moral boundaries of value-centered life.

            Face it – Valentine’s Day isn’t just about getting roses but as well as getting pricked by the thorns. Heart-squeezing excitement brought forth by romanticism excretes not only happiness but also gloom due to the eradication of intellect and morality from a dupe’s brain. The next time the mind entertains ideas of these corny immoral love-engrossed things, check again – it might have been poked away already by Valentine’s stupidity ecstasy.

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