By: Pritibha & Priya
Valentine’s Day, the day in where love is
expressed towards the significant other, regardless it is towards a lover,
friend or family members. For some single people, it might be one of
the most miserable days of the year, where all you see and hear is about “lovey
dovey” couples. These are a few ways of how singles survive during Valentine’s
Day.
1. Single’s
Night Out
What better way to celebrate Valentine’s
Day than with friends who share the same relationship status. Instead of opting
to go out for dinner and waste our money on food that is too overpriced, what
me and my friends did last year was have a get together at my house and
indulgence ourselves in some cheap fast food and splurge our money on drinks.
We spent our money on drinks at this Irish restaurant and bar Malones
at KLCC. Getting to dance and move to the beat of great songs and just enjoy
the night is a good way of diverting the feeling of being single on this day.
2. Family
Love
Valentine’s Day is about celebrating love
and it doesn’t mean you just have to spending the day with your
boyfriend/girlfriend. Most singles prefer to go out with their family and spend
some quality time together, expressing their love for family. Thinesh 29, said
“what better way spending Valentine’s Day than with a bunch of your crazy
family members and friends that never fail to cheer you up and crack some
jokes”.
3. Movie
marathon
Unfortunately, some singles find the
pleasure in making themselves feel more miserable on this day. Susila Devi, 19
said that she spent her Valentine’s Day by letting herself feel more miserable
given the fact that most of her friends are in a relationship and she feels
like as if she is missing out on something. She rather stay at home,
lie in a couch with a tub of ice cream and watch back-to-back love movies in
celebration of her detachment or watch a movie with a friend
at a cinema.
4. Let-it-all-out
Some singles go to great extent to let the
world know that being single is being miserably lonely. My newsfeed on Facebook
on February the 13th was mainly about a few singles expressing how unlucky
they are to not have a date on Valentine’s Day. What they fail to realise is
that it’s not such a big deal compared to those who don’t have a mother or
father during Mothers day or Fathers day. The portrayal of not having a
valentine on Valentine’s Day and that they are upset about it is shown through
sad or hatred Tweets or status updates. Hence, the feeling of letting it out
somewhere or to someone is an option to certain singles when it comes to
surviving the V-day.
5. Solitude
Kumar 25, prefers
to stay at home and do nothing but make himself feel more miserable because he
feel that the “grass is greener on the other side”, thinking that people being
in relationships are more happier than him. Shanti ,19, said that it’s one of
the most common misconception that people have, thinking that they would only
be happy if they are in a relationships. She merely rushed into a
relationship thinking that it would make her happy and instead end up arguing
with her boyfriend all the time and feeling even more miserable when she were
single . It’s one of the regrets that she has rushing into a relationship
knowing that she wasn’t ready for one .Being single and alone does not mean
that you choose to be unhappy; instead it allows one to be less dependent
6. Valentine’s
Day with the Pet
Since there are whole lot of pet lovers
around, some singles spend their Valentine’s with their pet cat, dog, fish or
rabbit. Showing their pet unconditional love has been a better option than
expressing it to human beings according to Ranita . She loves and adores the 6
cats that she has and she says that she doesn’t mind at all spending her
Valentine’s day with her 6 cats.
7. Keep
yourself occupied
As for working singles, some of them tend
to go ahead with OT (overtime). They spend extra hours at work; hence they do
not only occupy themselves, but also can make extra cash. As for the students,
some singles may attend classes, night classes especially to occupy themselves. According
to what Nava, 21, said “What better day to start on your assignments and stop
procrastinating than on valentine’s day” . You would be able to be a
zombie fully immersed in completing your assignment than focusing on being
single on Valentine’s Day
8. Have
a Pot Luck
Let’s face the brutal fact that living in
the city is not cheap at all especially for a student on a budget. Nowadays
some restaurants even charge you about 50cents to RM 1 for a glass of ice
water. Secret Recipe just recently started charging 50cents for a glass of ice
water. Can you imagine the amount of money you would have to spend eating out
during Valentine’s Day. Almost every dish on the menu would be over priced.
What me and my close friends started doing a few years back is have pot luck,
meaning each of us would cook one dish that we are really good at and bring it
over to a friend’s place. This way, less money would be spent on one night.
9. Shop
Till You Drop
According to 24 year old Marina, she spends
her Valentine’s Day by shopping, as shopping is her all-time favourite
activity. She feels that by treating herself some good pair of shoes and some
new clothes would make her happier than going out on a date on Valentine’s Day.
What she feels is she does not need to be made happy by someone else but by
just making herself happy by shopping on V-day. She said she is more satisfied
without expecting someone to do something for her on Valentine’s Day as well as
it is her way of surviving the “single’s awareness day”.
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