By Cole Tomlin, Staff Writer
Are you afraid of being single on Valentine’s Day this year? Well fear not my fellow loners, I am here to help you with all of your comfortless needs on this holiday.
Everyone always talks about how awful it is being single on Valentine’s Day. Most are complaining because all the focus, for an entire day, is on your friends and family sharing their love with another person as you sit at home watching romantic movies, alone.
But is this really such a bad thing?
When you are single on Valentine’s Day, you can relax. You don’t have to stress over getting reservations, or buying candy that you must then give to another person.
Another plus of being single on Valentine’s Day while still living with your parents is that you get the whole house to yourself all night without any pestering. You get to blast your music throughout the house and go crazy while they go out and spend loads of money on activities that they’ve done hundreds of times.
Furthermore, if you are a broke teenager like me, it’s nice not having to buy dinner and movie tickets for two people, along with candy, flowers and everything else that comes along with the infamous day of love.
The best part about being single on this day is that you are completely free to hang out with all of your other single friends in one big group — which is arguably much more fun than going out on a date with only one other person.
Think about it, would you rather spend a whole night/day with one person, or a whole group of friends? I know my answer.
The only cons associated with being single on Valentine’s Day occur when you either have no other single friends, or you are actually desperate for a relationship.
If you do happen to be the only single soul in your entire group of friends, then you may understandably be lonely enough to eat a whole box of chocolates by yourself.
But this is no reason for you to feel bad about yourself — eating chocolate can actually be very stimulating for the brain, so technically what you’re doing is healthy for you.
Another con of being single on Valentine’s day is when you get bored and decide to watch some TV, the only genre cable decides to show is a collection of Romantic movies. This is when you steal the Netflix password from one of your friends in a relationship, because they are out on a date, instead of hanging out with you.
This is another plus about being single — now you’ll have free Netflix forever.
As you can see there are many more pros to being single on Valentine’s Day than there are cons.
However, if you are one of those few people who are longing for a partner on Valentine’s Day, one, I am sympathetic toward your situation, and two, I highly suggest not downloading Tinder to get a random date who is just as desperate as you are.
And no — they probably won’t actually look like they do in the picture.
Junior Cole Tomlin can be reached at 21TOMLINCO11@daretolearn.org.
