When Valenthine’s Day approaches, the “taken” students all start asking the same questions:
 Guys–Got her the perfect gifts (or so you think…your mom liked it, right?!),  ready to buy her favorite dinner and go see that movie she’s wanted to see for two weeks now but you didn’t want to watch because it’s a chick flick, and called off ALL your other possible plans of the day?
 Girls–Is your favorite outfit ready, is his cell phone on silent to prevent it from interrupting YOUR day (because it IS your day, right?!), is there any hint about your preferred activities that you haven’t dropped yet, and are you SURE you told him to pick you up at six?
 And before you start telling yourself, “Hey, I don’t do any of that stuff,” remember to check and make sure you’re still taken.   The most notorious of the “Hallmark Holidays”  is the supposed celebration of relationships and love between two humans. What this means for you, guys, is that this is the day where you’re expected to lie down and be a slave to your woman because you need to show her you “love” her on Valentine’s Day. 
 And let’s face it: you’ll do it, too.  Ladies know this is their chance to enjoy a day where they can get away with giving ridiculous orders like royalty by simply saying, “Oh, but it’s Valentine’s Day!  You HAVE to do this for me!”
 But if you’re going to be that way one day, shouldn’t it be that way every day?  Guys, if you really love your girl like you say you do, then you’d treat her like a princess every moment you had with her, not just one day out of the year when it’s “required.” 
 And ladies, come ON.  We all know that if you can get your guy to be your servant on Valentine’s Day, chances are he would be ANY day for you, but you should show him the attention and care you show him on Valentine’s Day at dinner and a movie every time you’re with him, if you really want him to know how you feel.
 Realistically, Valentine’s Day is an excuse for couple’s to tighten tension on their relationship by having a set of “do’s” and “do not’s” that normally aren’t there.  Whether or not they SHOULD be existent, this day just reminds us how fake our relationships can be. 
 This should be a day to look back on your past time together and ask “did I really give my 100 percent to this person?”  Valentine’s Day may have found a use after all as a self-check day.
 And what about the mass of students who spend Valentine’s Day single and alone, not receiving cards or candy.  This most certainly can be a self-esteem downer but ironic since the holiday itself is about as fake as some of the people partaking in it, showing that it’s nothing to be upset over; however, many  are still distraught at the fact that another Valentine’s Day comes and goes and nothing changes.
 Pop culture makes things like dancing the Cha-Cha Slide, spending hundreds of dollars for a pair of jeans, and buying chocolates because of the date on a calendar stick around, and for whatever reason, people choose to go along with it instead of opening their eyes and realizing how ridiculous it all looks.  
 When people decide to open their eyes to what’s really important to them, things like these go down in popularity, and individuality sparks. If you’re going to buy her that ring, why not wait until her BIRTHDAY, or even Christmas?  Being different isn’t “cool,” but if you’ve got a relationship going, then to that person you’re “with,” you’re already cool.  What else do you have to prove?
 The answer is nothing.  This holiday proves nothing about the validity or strength of your relationship.  If anything, it can throw a wrench in the gears that make you and your loved one work so well. So this Valentine’s Day, take a look around and laugh, because you don’t need one day a year to show your lover how you really do or don’t feel.