Love Haters and the Hopeful Cynics - Chris "Preach" Smith

Valentines' Day is here. Not that you didn't know since they
had display aisles set up in drugstores a week after New Years'.

The one thing that can be more irritating than all of the jewelry
commercials and ads for teddy bears(seriously, those ads triple
by the time Valentines' Day arrives)is the group of people who
hate Valentines' Day. I'll take a tip from my man Andre 3000 and
call them 'love haters'. They're usually the ones that make bold
declarations like 'Valentines' Day is for suckers' and 'love sucks'.
These bitter Bettys and hating Harrys however, don't fool me for
one bit.

Let's be real...there are valid reasons why you'd detest Valentines'
Day. Maybe the day has coincided with tragedy or you're sick of
the crass commercialism. Personally, I feel that if you're in a
committed relationship, Valentines' Day should be every day for
you. But the 'love haters' basically hate this day because they
feel the pressure of being lonely a bit too much or they're still
mad at themselves for making the wrong choices in love. A word
to these folks: get out, get some backbone and stop drinking
the sour-ass grapes. If you're mad 'cause you let some bird
run game on you until your pockets were as flat as a Kansas
prarie or you're upset that you gave up the cookies to some
part-time player with a bad fade, live with it. It's called living
and learning people. Don't try to rain on other people's parades
because you can't stand the sunlight of their happiness.

There's another group I'd like to talk about...I'll call them the
'hopeful cynics'. These people talk a whole lot of junk about
this day, BUT have expectations. You KNOW if you didn't get
that person a gift or take them out to dinner or do something
nice for them, they'd throw you more shade than a solar
eclipse. Don't fall for that okey-doke. I've seen it go down
and I'd like for you to read my next article without a black
eye. And if anything, give 'em one of these: