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And it won’t be all cute and nice!! I’m MAD!! Like the poor cows suffering from Bovine spongiform encephalopathy, MAD!!!!! The Brazilian version of valentine’s day is coming up (dia os namorados), and I don’t merely want to write something sweet for those in love and something encouraging to those who happen to be single. I want to completely annihilate, exterminate, and ban this date for all eternity!
This is not a matter of being single and feeling lonely and sad for the date. NO!!!! It is about my revolt with something so completely shallow of true emotions, based on consumerism and bad taste!! Perhaps when the date started, baaaaack then when there was still such a thing called romance, such a celebration had a purpose… A celebration of two souls meeting each other, recognizing they were good, even better, together, and deciding to spend life as two, instead of one / one.
Well, the way I see it today, valentine’s day serves other, may I say, EVIL purposes. June barely started and we are already being bombarded with images of hot, sensual and sweaty couples all over each other wearing that “special” lingerie, and with that (disgusting) brand of perfume. They seem to have translated female independence and beauty in accordance with the length of the (barely-there-super-mini) skirts, and who DARES disagree?! “I can’t see your legs? You must be a prude and should be single alright.”
What about all the melodramatic commercials with well-worn poems and songs that translate to the public the same subliminal message, every year: you are worthless, but if you manage to get yourself a “special someone” he/she will only be “THE ONE” if he/she buys you insert product here
This year I will do it differently! I’m not going to encourage my single friends to go out there and have fun, as if we have to prove something to somebody! Nor will I waste my time feeling like I should be considering if anything should be done. I will treat this “special date” much the same as I treat other “special dates” I believe to be bullshit: IGNORE it!!!!!! Go on with my life, do my thing, not freak out or care about a date that, I believe, means nothing in the society I happen to be a part of. Better yet, I will make a celebratory party to my Jane Austen Collections, which hold some of the love I trust, believe and would fight for.. Anything else, I’m not interested!
Viva Jane Austen and true love!
P.s. Brunenji has been a bit out lately, BUT I promise I’ll be back soon and not this angry! Hahahaha Love you all, and thank you so much for reading!