Well, the title is oddly misleading. I will actually be spending this Valentine's Day alone, and I know full well what it feels like to be that way on a Valentine's Day, even though I was involved in an off and off relationship for almost 3 years, never over February 14th.

Anyway, I hate the pressure you're made to feel - "You're single, therefore you're a sad loser, and you're going to die alone. People hate you, even the one's who've never met you, and your mother phoned, just to tell me how much she's glad she hasn't heard from you"

I mean don't get me wrong, I like the idea of showing someone how much I love them, but I'd rather not choose to do it on a day that's dictated to me by fuck knows who? It's just something you know about as you grow up.

I should really do some research on it, enlighten myself, but seriously, it's a fable, some kind of legend passed down to kids about being in love and happiness, and that the bigger the card the more you love them.

I shouldn't be dictated to that I have to show someone I love them on a certain date, and that I should buy them flowers or chocolates. I hate the idea of flowers, I mean you're giving someone you love something that's dying? Wouldn't it be nicer to give them a pot plant, or something? An item that will flourish and grow, just like a relationship?

I'm an old romantic at heart, but I'd rather do something original, not buy someone some chocolates/flowers/jewellery. I'm not a philistine, I'm not an anti-intellectual, one of the mindless majority. I'd rather be creative.

To this coming Valentines Day, I'm happy, I like my life at the minute and I certainly don't want to experience a guilt trip all because I don't receive a card or have someone tell me they love me. I'm quite comfortable in myself, and my life, that I don't need that pressure.

Going back slightly, I did the research - Valentine's Day is typically a season of fertility, not romance, so technically it's better to spend all day indoors with the significant other honouring the wolf that suckled Romulus & Remus. It's an ancient Roman festival called Lupercalia, and Lupus being wolf, anyway. Not getting too side tracked.

So my word of advice, forget the cards, forget the chocolates, just stay indoors and give your girlfriend/boyfriend an orgasm =] it's cheaper and much more enjoyable. Why not push the boat out, have sex more than once!

And if you're alone, like I will be, then don't worry about it. Fair enough, some of you out there probably will die alone, that's nature's way of telling you that you shouldn't be allowed to procreate. For the rest of us, it's cool, just spend the day with friends, the family you can choose. They're the ones worthy of showing love to, mainly because they'll be around long after any future ex-mrs Parry's are off the horizon