So, I am well advanced in age, and have spent many of my years single, not in a relationship. So Valentine's Day has variable meanings for me, but mostly it means that there are people in my life about whom I care, but not necessarily romantically.
Someone I know posted on Facebook about Valentine's Day that people who are single should not feel like they are failures. Well, thank you, but until I read this post, I would never have thought that being a single was a failure. And frankly, I do not believe that being a single is a failure. I believe the person who posted this was well meaning, but she had no idea what an insult she was perpetrating by implying singles are failures.
Valentine's Day is a nice commercial artifice. But it is not a commentary on the worth of individuals.
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