Changing perspectives

I'm somewhat melancholy when it comes to this time of year.  Maybe it's because I'm single.  Maybe it's because all the single people are melancholy and it's become some sort of airborne contagion that single people catch.  Maybe it's because the not-single people are so blatantly not melancholy.  If ever there was some contrived, commercialized holiday for the sake of a holiday it's Valentine's Day.  I suppose I'm just sounding bitter right now, but honestly we don't really need a special day to remember our special someone do we?  I hope not.  Frankly, it just seems to be there to kind of rub it in the faces of those people who don't yet have special someones, but that's not really what this post is about.