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Wolfblade

Valentine's Day

Every year, today becomes a lovey-dovey mushfest for people who are dating.

And it becomes a sad-sack dump-fest for a lot of people who aren't. I just want to point out a few things to the party poopers.


For every happy smushy lovey bubbly couple you see and just want to punch, remember that none of them popped out of the womb holding hands with each other - everybody was single before they were dating. Expressing a disdain for people who have someone sends a message you maybe don't want to send to anyone who might just happen to have been thinking it would be nice to have you someday.

When you say anything to the effect of "Nobody loves me" it is saying quite plainly to every person who DOES give half a shit about you that you completely dismiss, ignore, or otherwise just don't count any concern or affection they've thrown your way.

When you piss on other people being happy about something, it is not attractive or appealing or endearing to anyone who isn't of the mind that pissing on other peoples' happiness is inherently fun in and of itself - which won't be people you really want in your orbit should you ever accidentally find yourself being happy one day.

The fewer people you have around you making you feel loved or cared for, the MORE of a fuck-sack move it is for you to go around moping that you have nobody, because of how shit that is to those special few you should be fucking treasuring - and even if none of them are date material, use today as an opportunity to show them you CARE that they care.

On the off chance that through very unlikely circumstances you actually ARE truly and completely alone in this world without a single soul who gives half a fuck about you - being bitter and resentful to people not sharing that fate is the last thing that's going to change that for you. But really, odds are, there's SOMEONE out there who exists and makes you feel like it's worth existing along with them.

Love isn't just about who you share a bed with, and today shouldn't be either.

Stop being a trendy little hipster emo shit and dumping on a day about Love, you're not invoking some clever brilliant insight by declaring it corporate money-grabbing because EVERY holiday is that, stop being a whiny cunt that you don't have a date because that's how you PREVENT yourself from ever having one. Instead, go find someone who matters to you even if you never want to bump uglies with them, and just make sure they know they matter. And maybe someone you matter to will do the same for you and you can be a little less of a sad sack.


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Added: 7 years, 2 months ago
 
eonzeetyphlosion
7 years, 2 months ago
https://youtu.be/UEaKX9YYHiQ?t=9
Just.. Just the first few seconds :P
GlenSkunk
7 years, 2 months ago
Well said sir, though honestly I've never really done Valentine's Day as either a day for love, a day for corporate malarky or Singles Awareness Day. For me, it's tended to mean two things - first, my brother's birthday; second, and more recently, a great excuse to get people to draw heart smut! XD
Jimbear
7 years, 2 months ago
And third, one of the best days of the year to cash in some mad profits (if I was open for business this year, which I'm not xD ).
GavinAlvarez
7 years, 2 months ago
Oh my god, thank you.... someone gets it....
BreakingCloud
7 years, 2 months ago
thank for you this c: gonna make journals linking back to this!
AquariusOtt
7 years, 2 months ago
Very well said!
SageMerric
7 years, 2 months ago
Straight, to the point, and couldn't agree more. Good read
foxboyprower
7 years, 2 months ago
Well I'd agree, but with a more positive angle I guess. ^^;
DraggiePoss
7 years, 2 months ago
Thaaaaaaank you for posting this. So much truth to this journal. I really do think people should view Valentine's as a day for love in a more general sense. People should celebrate all the people that love you. That includes friends and family too. It doesn't have to be JUST with a girl/boyfriend. Holidays are honestly what you want to make of them.
greenmont
7 years, 2 months ago
yes
love more and you'll find love
 
keep acting like love is beneath you or beyond you, and others will simply agree
baseballdude4578
7 years, 2 months ago
Couldn't agree more =3
NaydrxSpade
7 years, 2 months ago
Although your words speak truth, judging by some of your comments in your journal you also hold a little bittersweetness concerning today.  I'd suppose everyone does, though, especially concerning Valentine's.

I suppose my pain for this day comes from a cheating ex of mine, who just felt like confessing nonchalantly that he was cheating on me, and through text even.  Not even a phone call.  Had to call him out of shock.  Still can't believe it to this day.  Almost 4 years it would have been, too.  Still pangs sometimes.  Happened around week 2 of January 2014.

I guess I went off on a tangent, but I have a hard time on this day.  I do my best to show I care to those out there that care about me, however.  Especially this one foxy who's very close to my heart, though he's a tough nut to crack.
Wolfblade
7 years, 2 months ago
Nah, my only bitterness about today is a simple reflection of the bitterness others put out.

I've been happily mated irl for 15 years, and we've never put much stock or significance on any holidays, including this one. At most, it's an excuse to go out to eat, but we pretty much do that any time we feel inclined anyway. We haven't gone a day in those 15 years without saying I love you to one another, and it doesn't have to be big flowery eye-fluttering mush, even as simple as a hand on the shoulder and just saying "love" as we pass while doing laundry or something.

I just tend to feel a need to say something whenever presented with a bit of general human crappiness that seems to go mostly without remark. Most people choose not to "waste time" commenting on low-key trivial shittiness, but I feel like it's all the little petty trivial low-key crap that is allowed to become commonplace that makes life as a whole measurably more sucky for everyone than it needs to be, and that maybe some of that background noise of just petty shittiness would die down a bit if more people just made a point of calling it out more often.
NaydrxSpade
7 years, 2 months ago
I guess I was being a little crappy, so I apologize for that one >..<;;; didn't help much that I was tired when I wrote that, either.

I hope I hadn't made you angry in any way, or made you think I'm just another bitter little douche bringing everyone down, since I noticed you kinda singled me out of everyone else here >..>;;; except that other extremely bitter fellow right below me (woof! 0..0;;;).  I really am not that bitter about Valentine's or love for that matter.
NaydrxSpade
7 years, 2 months ago
In fact, I enjoyed yesterday and avoided people who were general grumps as well.  Made it a day for me mostly, until I found out my foxy friend got the card I sent him.  I made him feel good ^..^

I also enjoyed watching a Valentine favorite: My Bloody Valentine (the old one, not the blah remake).
HeavyHeart
7 years, 2 months ago
I simply take satisfaction in knowing that in a year or two... they'll hate each other's guts.
Stratus
7 years, 2 months ago
^completly missed the point of this journal
HeavyHeart
7 years, 2 months ago
I stated that, regardless of journal content. And it's my legit sentiment.
sockswolf
7 years, 2 months ago
Not when you find the right person. Been with my partner for 13 years now and we are still very much in love hell we're still learning things about each other and finding new ways to keep things exciting.
Stratus
7 years, 2 months ago
My sentiment is you'll be alone or in a disfunctional relationship forever then because you have a shitty outlook on people.
HeavyHeart
7 years, 2 months ago
Yeah. Because people ARE shitty.
Stratus
7 years, 2 months ago
Ironic comming from someone who looks foward to other people's happiness ending. Ever assume the problems more you than them?
HeavyHeart
7 years, 2 months ago
So you're all upset that I'm an asshole. Not MY problem.
Wolfblade
7 years, 2 months ago
You're doing a good job representing exactly the kind of person this was aimed at, so thanks, I guess.

The point of the journal is this: It's easy to decide that the reason you're alone is because everyone else is shit - it also lets you be fine with being shit to people yourself, because hey, if everyone is shit, then you're no worse if you're shit too.

Plenty of relationships fail. It happens. Incompatible people fall in love all the time. Doesn't always mean anyone was shit or even did anything wrong. Two perfectly good people who just don't fit can try desperately to make it work, and often it's easier to decide the other was an asshole and to part with anger and resentment than to accept that you're both good people who just can't work together, and to let go.

You will have no luck in love until you let go of the juvenile attitude that you've expressed here. You'll get nothing back except what you put out into the world. That's the fuck of reality: If you put out nothing but goodness, sometimes you get shit in return. But if you put out nothing but shit, then that's for damn sure all you'll get back.

Hoping for others' happiness to end is a crap thing. Be better than that.

Or don't, and enjoy the wonderful life you craft for yourself.
HeavyHeart
7 years, 2 months ago
I concluded everyone is shit because of politics, stupidity, greed, and trolling, dickhead. (don't bother reporting, I'm already blocking you, so I don't have to hear ENDLESS fucking whining.

Oh, besides: having had THE COMPLETE OPPOSITE reaction than you assholes, and having only ever having had people PROVE ME RIGHT... *YOU* can sit 'n spin on a cactus, far as I care.)
Stratus
7 years, 2 months ago
some people enjoy being miserable i suppose.
Brainsister
7 years, 2 months ago
It's like they say, you catch more flies with honey than vinegar!
kiwakiwa
7 years, 2 months ago
..which is actually false statement..
you can attract actual flies more with vinegar than with honey... but do you know what attracts flies more than either honey or vinegar...
-shit-
Wolfblade
7 years, 2 months ago
This is beautiful XD
kiwakiwa
7 years, 2 months ago
Wolfblade
7 years, 2 months ago
Oh those boys, whatever will I do with them. XD
Mattspew
7 years, 2 months ago
^^ this journal tho
Pepzor
7 years, 2 months ago
Outstanding
Guilmon1fan
7 years, 2 months ago
The way I figure, Im alone before the holiday, and I will be alone after the holiday, no reason to get be upset about that. Maybe one day I will find my special someone, but I doubt it. No one understands me and accuses me of being too strange and full of baggage. So yeah, its alright though. My left hand will always understand my needs, and my sex dolls, porn, etc, etc.
Wolfblade
7 years, 2 months ago
Another thing people need to understand more, that I suppose I should have said in the journal:

Not everyone NEEDS a mate/partner/bf/gf/whatever. Some people really are self-contained enough to be perfectly content flying solo.

Even if a person does want an other, I feel like the healthiest relationships I've known have always been the ones where both people are more than capable of being perfectly happy on their own, and just choose not to be. The ones where either person NEEDS the relationship or else they are just a miserable wreck tend to have way harder times of it. :\

So whether you have someone, want someone, are looking, or not, EVERYONE stands to benefit immensely from learning how to be happy on their own for their own sake, regardless.
whitepawrolls
7 years, 2 months ago
Well if my rl mate were still alive and here to share it with me I'd be a mushy person too, but since they aren't I'll be one of the bitter ones and happy about it thank you very much.
hamakei
7 years, 2 months ago
Nice. Do you go up to depressed people and tell them to stop being so miserable too?
MaverickSkye
7 years, 2 months ago
I'm not sure that's what the message was I'm this journal. A person will be depressed before the day as well as after. Don't target the day itself as a rain to get surgery depressed. He's saying that it's possible to change your mindset to make the day a non-painful one by virtue of changing your definition of the day. Or at least if you're going to be sad about it, not to take the time to crap on the happiness of others. It's not saying "hey depressed person, get over it" and more "hey. Here's a different way to look at a day that makes you sad"
Wolfblade
7 years, 2 months ago
I deal with depression, too. It sucks. It's shit.

But it's no excuse.

No excuse to act in a manner that will only exacerbate your own depression. No excuse for ensuring, enshrining, and prolonging all the factors most contributing to the depression. No excuse for behaving in a way powerfully likely to actively prevent anything that may lessen the depression.

And no excuse to wish any measure of your own debilitating handicapping misery on others whose only offense is to not share your handicap.

That's a BIIIIIIG fucking thing right now. Anyone who does what I did here, and simply makes note of what a person chooses to do which feeds into the very problems they're suffering from - any person who simply refuses to accept that your pain or tragedy or mental illness grants you a pass to wish a drop of your pain upon anyone else - any person who just thinks that the existence of victims of painful shit does NOT mean that everyone not suffering the same thing has to just endure being looked at or spoken to or regarded with resentment or bitterness or the fucking loathsome ill-wishing from victims that want them to "know how it feels" - any of those things get a person branded as some kind of gross horrible attacker of poor poor sad sad victims.

It's idiotic. It's bullshit. It's simply false.

No, I do not walk up to random depressed individuals and tell them to get over it.

But I'm also not going to bite my tongue to avoid maybe possibly suggesting to the general open spaces that human beings ALL have agency and a degree of direct influence on their own lives and circumstances, and maybe a whole fuckload of people are a little less happy than they could be if fewer people were telling them that it's the right thing to do to NOT try and put a little more effort into working to lessen the handicap of whatever your personal suffering may be.

I'm also sure as shit not going to participate in the fucking nonsense of absolving a person from being declared shit when they wish for others to suffer. In my opinion, someone who wishes a hurtful thing upon another person and is ignorant of the hurt they've wished for is pretty crap as a person. But someone who KNOWS exactly, personally, first-hand the full extent of the pain and hurt, and still wishes for other people to feel it? That's a hundred times more vile.

Who's the person more damaging to someone suffering from some kind of bad shake? The guy trying to point out possible avenues for them to maybe lessen the degree of pain or damage their circumstances cause them? Or the guy defending them from that and telling them to just go ahead and stay miserable and ignore everything telling them that there's jack shit they can ever do to make it a little less bad?

Cuz people who do what your comment is - who try to accuse someone doing what I'm doing of being a meany doodoohead to poor depressed people - you're the latter, here.
Sunnynoga
7 years, 2 months ago
Instead of people shitting on other's happiness, there's a thing called Black Day in Korea except it's like Valentines for singles!

Love isn't just romantic love between boyfriend and girlfriend, you got your family and your friends that love you!
ThisIsANameChangeTest
7 years, 2 months ago
I get what you are going about on, but I don't really directly agree. "If you feel like nobody cares about you but there are people around you that 'do' you are being a sad sack." Lets start with the basis of this. A FEELING isn't based off of logic so someone can feel sad even if they know better. This is something that can be caused in an intense amount because of the environment around a person. I am not against lovey-dovey couples, but if you are a person who thinks that every person who says, "Nobody loves me." has no basis for that then I am going to say you are wrong.

First of all, Love is not equivalent to caring about something, it's more than that. Let's start with a low level of care. In order to be someone's friend you must be friendly to them, must care about their opinions enough to hear them and their well being enough to be around them. If a person says, "Nobody loves me" but has friends you might think to yourself, "Well you still have friends..." The thing is that a LOVER is someone who'd love you based on who you are, not on who you pretend to be. Not only is it normal for people to adapt to hang around with people, but it's also normal to hide some of one's thoughts or normal behavior around others. Someone that loved you would care about everything and not only when it's convenient. "What about family." Well many people my age have had family who only cares when it's convenience. Care out of convenience is just that, convenience. It's convenient to have someone else to hang around, rely on, or the rest and not many people do actually cultivate the relationship to making it anything more than that. There are plenty of people who try as well only to be stepped on or only remembered when it's convenient. That is why Valentine's day is sorta offensive too. It's a time when items to show affection are sold at "convenient" prices to conveniently display affection when there are many other days where it can be done and many other days when it is NEEDED but is still not given. Nobody wants consolation chocolate out of pity because of convenience...

Love is not something that only is directed at a person when it is convenient. It happens through tears, even through rejection, it happens when you are good or if you are bad. To not be loved is far more painful than to not be cared about. To be cared about is nice, but most of the time it's for the sake of another person's convenience. I don't deny that these people are have some importance but on this day when people are alone, rather than telling them off for feeling bad, I'd advocate more about telling them to love themselves. I don't care what's attractive so that part of your post is weird too.

Valentines day is a good day for single people to take some time out of their day and love themselves. Despite all the trials they go through and the people who care but not enough to know the real them, they should at least know who they are. Take that time to become proud of the you that you are underneath all the disguising you force yourself to do, if you do that. If that person hiding away, is honest and good, someone will come around if you take care of yourself. So do take care of yourself, and treat yourself because you are worth it. And love starts with the love of oneself and branches out. If you can't love yourself, that's fine too but maybe on this day take it easier on yourself than normal especially if you think you are doing your best.
Wolfblade
7 years, 2 months ago
I appreciate that you did get some of what I'm saying here, but I feel we have a disconnect on what "love" is.

I actually did state quite directly that today should be about more than just who you go to bed with. The things I say "stop doing this" are things people do which are almost definitely going to be direct obstacles to their own chances of finding the kind of love that goes beyond the caring I was mostly focused on.

But the Love you describe, capital L, so beautifully, and eloquently, and wonderfully, is a sort of thing that shines so bright and looks so appealing, that when people are focused on staring at that kind of notion and desperately seeking to find it in their own lives, the brightness of that romanticized idealized poetry makes the much more common and everyday love all around them look pale or even meaningless in contrast. It is damaging and hurtful to people when they are taught to become so focused on a fairytale ideal, that they become blind to the still deeply meaningful and important and powerful and most importantly REAL love that is around them all the time.

When people put the focus you've put on the LOVE, of a LOVER, being so much more significant and needed, and kinda brush off the simple love of a friend, it leads people to ignore what is most probably already in their life, in pursuit of a thing that not everyone actually ever gets to experience. I consider that to be a tragedy. I think more value and attention and worth needs to be placed on the simple everyday love and caring and concern that humans have for each other in droves, every day, all the time, rather than the end-all, be-all be this big fluttery thing that some people will just never find. Especially if they're not really seeming to appreciate or even count the lesser forms of it that tend to be what needs to happen before the Final Form Love can ever even have a chance of growing in the first place. :\

Thank you for disagreeing without being exactly what the journal was asking people not to be, I appreciate immensely that you're not dumping on the happiness others have, like some of the disagreeing comments. But I do hope you understand where I'm coming from when I say too much focus is put on the Love you speak of, and I think it denies people to some extent the ability to feel the happiness and comfort they should be able to gain from the much more common and simple love that is almost certainly already in their lives.
ThisIsANameChangeTest
7 years, 2 months ago
I get it but what you are calling love I just call general care, which unfortunately can have agendas and other reasons behind it. I've had friends that I enjoyed being around for 12 years but most of which was sinking my time and effort into them while getting little in return. Those same friends that gained what I would consider friendly love are fine without me, I am the only left suffering from giving a damn. People should enjoy the company of other and the care and concern of others without being too disconnected I agree on that but I wouldn't call that love. It's not worth putting time and effort into a childish way of viewing the world. Love comes with sacrifice and you can't sacrifice for everyone because it is tiring.

On Valentines day I believe it is better to be agonized with the idea that you aren't receiving that sort of love but to not be detrimental about it. Use the hurt you feel this year to try to make something blossom before next year and all that jazz. I get where you are coming from when enjoying the general stuff, but again when people 'grow up' [really dumb term for don't care as much.] they start putting everything else before friendship. So no, it's not love and while it isn't bad it's not more worthwhile than love either. If people do have that sort of friendship from someone else hold onto it, but just like you are saying love is romanticized so is that brotherly love. As a matter of fact it's FAR MORE romanticized and has less of a value.
ThisIsANameChangeTest
7 years, 2 months ago
I don't feel like this conveys what I wanted to, so just ignore it. When I tried editting I got kicked out because it took longer than 10 mins to fix what was being said.
PhotonPhox
7 years, 2 months ago
Why can't we all just... not shit on each other? I mean I don't like it. You just did shit on me, for example, and I doubt you like it either! I just do not understand why hatred is the only thing we're all good at. It's fucking ridiculous...
I wanted to think you were a nice guy, but I guess I was wrong...
Will I explain why I hate this shitfest of a holiday? Tch. No. Because you and everyone else will see it as nothing more than an excuse. Only to reinforce our claims when we say: "No on cares" which you hypocritically try to reinforce as well.
Utterly reprehensible.
I just wish for this hatred to end... I guess that's what happens when ideas and viewpoints clash too much. Still, it's juvenile that it got to this point. Society needs a serious change... big time.
Wolfblade
7 years, 2 months ago
The big problem today is of people thinking they're being shit on when someone simply says "here's some things you may be choosing to do, that probably directly contribute to what you're unhappy about. I, as someone who wants people to be more happy - both the people whose happiness is being pissed on by these behaviors AND the people who'd be happier if they stopped these behaviors that will surely be obstacles to their own happiness - would like to see these behaviors stop, because everyone would be better off if they did."

You can hate the holiday for whatever reasons you want. I'm telling people to not do shit that will make what they're sad about worse, and to not do shit that wishes less happiness on people who do manage to have a bit of it.

If that makes me a bad person to you, you're welcome to think that, but I am going to consider you tragic and confused, and I'll just feel bad for you, and hope sincerely that your life sees changes that bring you to a better point of perspective.
PhotonPhox
7 years, 2 months ago
Okay... I see.
After my loved one left me for another guy on V-Day 2014, I was never able to feel any sort of respect for this holiday ever again. I always had a mild distaste for it, but much more of a neutral opinion of it. But after that... I just couldn't.
I remember when I was a kid and I loved all holidays. Now I am 20 years old, hating pretty much any and every holiday now... And I do not know why for some of them. I think Halloween is the only one I still remotely like, even though I don't celebrate it anymore...
I do not want to hate anything or anyone anymore. I don't want to be a bad person anymore. My depression has turned me into a spiteful, and disgusting person. And I know it. And I despise that. Love is the only thing I know that was able to make me... not this way. So seeing so many others having it while I do not, just... makes it so much worse.
Throughout my entire childhood, I forced myself to be a loner. I did not trust anyone to be a good person to me as a friend. Everyone is a shitty person for one reason or another. Including you, everyone here, and ESPECIALLY me. And I still believe that. But after my teenage years kicked me in the ass over it, I felt... absurdly lonely...and I still do. Like I said I do not want to feel these feelings anymore.
I cannot ask you to understand, as surely you don't. And/or you don't care. Just know that while I am a complete piece of shit... I don't want to be. I guess I just need to try harder... or something.
Sorry for wasting yours and everyone else's time.
Krechevskoy
7 years, 2 months ago
Inkbunny, why can't we fave journals yet? >:V
GreenReaper
7 years, 2 months ago
Well, I guess it encourages people to make a comment instead, resulting in further discussion. :-D
Krechevskoy
7 years, 2 months ago
No worries, I was joking more than anything.  Journal faves honestly sound like a hot mess, it was meant more as a way to tell Blade that I enjoyed his post.
GreenReaper
7 years, 2 months ago
It's something which has been suggested several times in a more-or-less jokey manner (along with "why don't they let us use more than three stars?", which actually has a highly technical explanation about saving us [nowadays] ~100MB in the database).
Krechevskoy
7 years, 2 months ago
Very awesome!  Glad to see you guys getting down into the low level optimizations.
GreenReaper
7 years, 2 months ago
Oh, been there for a while. Today was hackily using the /run and /tmp tmpfs on OpenVZ in order to make use of the promised 8GB RAM (using them to cache new full-sized files and old screen-sized files respectively). It seems to work. >_>

I'm slightly prouder of finding the kernel tweaks needed to increase the number of ext4 inodes stored per kernel memory slab, saving ~1GB of RAM during backups.
Krechevskoy
7 years, 2 months ago
That is some pretty hefty savings.  Well done!
FriskECoyote
7 years, 2 months ago
Guys- guysguysguysguys, Valentine's Day exists for one, merciful, glorious reason; the chocolates on sale the day after! 8D *Throws everyone chocolates, unless they're allergic, then they get blowjobs instead- actually, blowjobs all around*
ThisIsANameChangeTest
7 years, 2 months ago
I like blowjobs better, I'll take two. =p
FriskECoyote
7 years, 2 months ago
Suhweet! Being a behemoth- I think- it will take at least 2.5 Frisks to handle all that meat! 8D
aeolicservant
7 years, 2 months ago
I don't know what you're talking about dude. As somebody who's been single his entire life, Valentine's day has always been the Christmas eve for cheap chocolate in my mind. Nothing more nothing less
AoukiDestroyerRabbit
7 years, 2 months ago
I remember in elementary school our teacher encouraged all the kids to make Valentines Day cards and give them to someone we liked. She got mad because I gave mine to another boy in class. O.O

That's what Velentines Day is to me, it's not a day to sulk that you don't have someone. It's a day you can actually use your artistic abilities, to draw that card of you two holding hands, with a big "Will you be my Valentine!" on it to woo that special someone you've been eyeing for several months. ;)
Malachyte
7 years, 2 months ago
Wonderfully said, and thank you for saying it. Let's all just appreciate each other, instead of being mad at people for doing so! It's silly.
Rummy
6 years, 11 months ago
You're my fucking hero for this journal; you're on-point all throughout this entire page, especially with your defenses.
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