5 reasons why Valentine's Day and its rosy, chocolatey cousins are a waste of your time

You know what's special about February besides it being an odd 28-days month? Did we say special? Pardon us, but we meant annoying, weird, irritating, or any of their synonyms you can think of instead. Now that you're aware of our disgust and hatred, we're pretty sure, you know we are talking about the doomsday for practical couples and single people--the Valentine's Day.

Also, make that dooms-week please. How can we forget the horrendous Chocolate Day, Teddy Day, Rose Day, Kiss Day, Piss Day before the D-Day?

If you too detest this concept, you could be doing one of these four things:

1) Subtly spending time with your partner, shaking your head at the PDA-fuelled couples.

2) Murdering the couples out there in your head.

3) Roaming around with your girl gang saying "guys suck"

4) Just relating to our feelings. Because we too think that Valentine's Day is absolutely overrated and ridiculous.

Here's why:

It's Illogical, NOT Dillogical
So it's all about showering your partner with gifts to celebrate the birth anniversary of Saint Valentine of Rome, who by the way has absolutely nothing to do with us or our history. Going by that logic, why don't we give out gifts to our exes commemorating the day when Goddess Sita left Lord Ram?

With all due respect, you know what they call it in Urdu? Begani shaadi mei Abdullah deewana.

Being a Lover Versus Being an Obligation

Girlfriends may say "gifts don't matter" all they want, but if the boyfriends take that seriously, we can guarantee, it will come up in the form of "You know, Shreya's boyfriend gave her a diamond necklace".

Peeps come on! Why would you want to subject your loved one through the unnecessary discomfort of going out of their way and well, budget to get you a gift or take you out for a candle-light dinner?

It's Just a Business-Making Gimmick

Approximately 150 million Valentine's Day cards are exchanged annually, making Valentine's Day the second-most popular card-sending holiday after Christmas. How else did you think Hallmark and Archies made all that moolah?

Your Aashiqui Has Some Serious Repercussions

Do you realize how many trees are sacrificed for all the papers used for those greeting cards? Fine! Get romantic on this day all you want, make love, make babies, but spare the trees, at least. After all, where will those babies get the oxygen from?

Ever thought about that? No, you only think about yourself.

It is The Second-Most Annoying Thing For All The Single Ladies

Because first is waxing. But that's besides the point. What we mean is that you don't want mushy couples addressing each other as baabu to remind you of how life used to be when you had someone. It's so in your face. Damn!