Valentine’s Day markets itself as romantic, but campus voted otherwise. In a recent poll on the PDBY Instagram page, most students agreed that the day is overrated, and the stories explain why. Calling Valentine’s Day overrated does not mean that people do not want love. It means they are tired. Tired of overpriced dinners and public displays being mistaken for depth. What makes Valentine’s Day overrated is not singledom; it is the pressure. The pressure to plan something special, to feel something specific, and to care more than you naturally do. These were the responses from students about their awkward moments of Valentine’s Day:
- “I got dumped!”
- “Got asked and said ‘yes’, but I told him ‘no’ an hour later.”
- “We hyped my boy to get the girl he wanted for Valentine’s, but she mized him and came for me.”
- “He gave me a bear and thought my tears were tears of joy, but my grandmother had just died.”
- “I got a Valentine’s letter from my ex-girlfriend 6 months after Valentine’s, new gf found it. Thanks, post office!”
If Valentine’s Day has taught us anything, it is this: when love season gets awkward, overpriced, and slightly humiliating, the reasonable response is to laugh because crying is just bad for your skin!
Visual: Gabriella le Roux
