Let's Talk About Love

Whether You Love or Hate Valentine's Day, Set Aside Some Time for Love

Valentine’s Day: love, flowers, dates, chocolate, champagne, proposals, high expectations, expensive menus, consumerism. However you celebrate or don’t celebrate, no one can deny the warmth of love. Whether toward your partner, family, friends, pets, plants, or hobbies.

OSU Kinesiology, Taylor Han, Flowers on Wednesday. “There’s no significance to the day, [I'm] more of a flowers-on-a-Wednesday person. [I’d rather] do something fun on a random Saturday, then going home to build a pillow fort, eat snacks, and watch a movie or two.”

Valentine’s Day is seen most often as a day to celebrate love with your partners or friends. Annually we see restaurant reservations, boxes upon boxes of assorted chocolates, and “Galentine” or “Palentine” parties so folks don’t miss out on the celebration.

OSU Human Development and Family Sciences Major, Glo Park, Euphoric Love. OSU Physics Major, Hannah O’Meara said that Valentine’s Day is, “amazing because chocolate and cute movies and someday if I’m ever dating I think it’ll be so fun, but for now I get to see all the couples go out and do stuff, flowers, all the things.”

Living in a nation that is all about getting ahead and has workaholic issues, Valentine’s Day gives us the opportunity to get work and stress off our minds and focus on enjoying our evening. Though many find Valentine’s Day stressful as well. Struggles of finding reservations, getting the perfect gift, the perfect flowers, making sure your makeup looks perfect before they pick you up.

OSU Electrical and Computer Engineering Major, Thomas Snyder, Money Sucker. “It's not really a day that is significant to my partner and I. It's a capitalist ploy to suck money out of people's wallets.”

Or maybe you’re a Valentine’s Day scrooge-like myself, who sees it as an excuse for businesses to profit, but might stop the store the next day to get chocolate on sale… Whatever your view on Valentine’s Day, set some time aside today for love. Even if it’s simply loving yourself with a nice meal, a good book or movie, and some good music!

OSU Business Major, Helen Jing, Love Doesn’t Need a Date. “It seems like businesses have just taken over the holiday for profit,” says OSU Bio-Health Sciences Major, Jobe Dinh, “roses be expensive for no reason, dawg.”

What are your feelings towards Valentine’s Day?

OSU Biochem and Psychology Major, Chloe Lee, Wrapped in toxicity. “[Valentine’s Day is] kinda pointless and a marketing scheme to get more money. Like, showing of a relationship as a sign of ‘accomplishment’ vs. in retrospect being single and being observed as ‘lacking’ is toxic.”