By Loreto Martinez

What am I going to do on Valentine's Day? I hate Valentine's Day! While couples are out celebrating the love that they share for one another, I'm going to be stuck at home going over every single relationship that has gone wrong. Why should people celebrate this stupid holiday, anyway? It's such a depressing day as I hear my best friends discuss their romantic plans with boyfriends. Not to mention when later in the year, I am reminded of this day when I see them wearing whatever fancy jewelry was given to them by their sweetheart on Valentine's Day. When will it be my turn to get a pretty heart-shaped necklace? When will a boy write a nice poem for me? I hate Valentine's Day!

This is the attitude that many people have on Valentine's Day. Why be bitter though? Instead of wasting your time looking at what you don't have in life, take the opportunity to be thankful for what you do have. There are friends and family members with more than enough love to give you, and you're not the only single person in the world this Valentine's Day or any other.

If you really don't care about Valentine's Day, you won't feel lonely; you'll just go about your daily life. But if you say that you don't care about Valentine's Day and are in reality feeling alone, then make some plans. Go out with family or friends, and celebrate the relationships you do have, not only on Valentine's Day, but every day of the year.
 

By Kate O'Hara

10. If you truly love and care for someone, you shouldn't need Hallmark, CVS, and Hershey's to remind you to tell them.

9. The prices of everything, from robes to roses, are increased by at least 25%.

8. The same depressing "eternal love" movies and marriage/dating shows are on EVERY channel.

7. Valentine's Day gives decorating nuts an excuse to cover every visible surface with the ugliest shades of pink and red.

6. Shopping for your "loved ones" inevitably wipes away ever penny you've been saving since Christmas.

5. If you're lucky, you'll get shot in the arm (or some other unmentionable place) with an arrow wielded by a crazy little naked man. And this is if you're lucky.

4. It shows the uncreative why they decided that they were uncreative in the first place.

3. You're stuck working the late shift at work because everybody except you and Bob the crazy cook has dates.

2. If you're the smelly kid in class, you don't get a valentine.

1. It only succeeds in making lonely people feel even lonelier.