It's two days since this year's Valentine's Day. There's so much love, romance, and fun in the air this week and there's always something feel good about seeing couples, families, friends, and basically everyone celebrating love and spending quality time together. I can also see that it has been a busy week on businesses, especially restaurants, retail gift shops, and community events.
Personally, I'm not one to celebrate Valentine's Day with my partner (It's for a good reason, I promise) but my schedule was packed for the day. To be fair, I always have seen it as another day, a sort of we-go-out type of day if we get lucky when I was single. Even if I was on a household where we take valentine's day as family and/or friends, I still don't find it as something I look forward to. I'm not necessarily bitter, I just used to be meh about it. But now that I'm in a relationship, it is still not-that-special, but I can see now why it feels like Christmas for people in relationships. It makes us feel good and special being with people we love, but it's just a day, that others may say as a capitalist construct with all the gifts, chocolates, flowers, and dinners. Also, now that I got older, I tend to appreciate more quality time not just with my partner, but also with my family and friends so safe to say I have a better relationship with Valentine's day in my adulthood compared to my early life.
That makes me think, why does it exist in the first place? Is it because people are too busy with work that we had the consciousness to set a day to pressure ourselves to spend time and buy gifts for our relationships? I'm not sure, and I don't really feel like looking it up, just a random thought to add in this silly little banter.
Again, I was not able to have the day with my partner, but we had quality roadtrip-dinner evenings during the 13th and 15th where we basically went to different places to walk around and try the food. We went to the city plaza and a mall on the 13th and a music-arts-food bazaar cultural event on the 15th. Besides, we still have the 19th to celebrate our 3rd anniversary, and we came to an agreement to just plan the 19th ahead and celebrate it more.
The reason we missed the 14th is very simple. He works in a fancy restaurant, and they had crazy amounts of reservation for the day. So, the reasonable, practical, and responsible thing to do as someone working in food industry is take the shift and get paid. On the other hand, I also had errands and a special committment for the day with my sister, and it was a Galentine's Day well-spent (yes, it says Galentine's day-which means a Valentine's day spent with your girl friends).
The day started attending a Valentine's day talkshow event at a mall, in which our communications professor encourages us to attend (with point credits). I would've just went there for the points, but I also learned a lot such as the evolution of courtship and relationships throughout the generations, the uprise of the term "delulu" (slang for delusional, out-of-touch) in which also handled the mental health aspect of crushes and relationships. I've also gathered a lot of valuable insights about knowing your worth, understanding each other’s dynamics, and prioritizing own mental well-being in situations such as relationships or crushes.
After that, I went to my sister's university since she invited me ahead of time to attend their open-house foundation day activities. The university was very big and wide, and there's so much great views and greenery. We went on the booths and bought a bunch of stuff, mostly accessories and stickers since I did not feel like buying chocolates that time. Then we went on their canteen to buy lunch. She also gave me a campus tour and we also took shots at the photo booth. Then later in the afternoon, I stayed to watch their university's battle of the bands event, in which she was assigned to write about so my vocabulary and music knowledge was really put to the test as I also tried to assist her, just a bit. So since we have reunited again, expect lots of hysterical laughs, jokes, gossips, funny moments, and shenanigans.
The evening ended up with my partner getting out of work and driving us home. As what I have been saying, I had such a great Valentine's day, and everything about it was well-spent. I did not receive flowers and chocolates. Well, if you know me personally, I don't really like chocolates that much (I love chocolates, but sometimes I am tried of it, and add that I always get dizzy with so much sweets so small servings are the way to go) and not getting flowers is understandable as it's not much of a priority for me. Besides, I was able to get a lot of accessories, snacks, and stickers either I bought or my sister bought for me, and those will last longer, they're more useful and be more into my interest (or a good addition to my stickers and accessories collection). Also, feasting my eyes shopping and picking out those cute stuff together with quality time is such a great fun moment enough for me.
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