Dazzling flowers, mouthwatering chocolates and fluffy, cuddly teddy bears. Does this represent love or the just the perception of the Christian celebration of romantic love known as Valentine’s Day?
For a faculty member and several students at City College their plans for Valentine’s Day will be low key, just ask 19-year-old Shirley Vang.
“I’m going to go watch ‘Warm Bodies’, and rub it on all the couples’ faces like, ‘Yeah, you have to be stuck with that while I sit alone and enjoy my popcorn to myself,’” says Vang, sitting outside the Performing Arts Center.
Vang might not be receiving romantic gifts or having candlelight dinner with a dozen perfectly bloomed red roses this Valentine’s Day. Neither will Jesse Adams and his girlfriend of five years.
“I’m extremely broke right now. We both are,” says Adams, 25-year-old communications major. “So, I think we are just planning on spending time together and not really do anything extravagant this year.”
On the other hand, Kenneth Kenworthy, 25-year-old music management major, has been in a relationship for two and one-half years and says he has plans, but “nothing formulated and solid.”
“I think really the heart of Valentine’s [Day] is just having a day to spend together with your significant other and just really enjoy it with them,” says Kenworthy, sitting outside Mohr Hall.
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For Kenworthy, the meaning of Valentine’s Day is more important than buying gifts, a vision shared by adjunct professor of English and journalism Dawn Blunk.
Blunk, 41, has been married for six years to another City College English professor, Matt Tittle. She said there shouldn’t be a special day to celebrate love.
“It should be the little expressions of love,” Blunk says. “Who needs flowers when you have been loved through the year?”
She believes washing dishes or taking out the trash shows as much love as receiving flowers.
Vang, just like Blunk and Kenworthy, thinks love can be expressed more than just one day. To them those breathtaking flowers and out-of- this-world romantic dinners can be given every single day.
“I think its kind off dumb to have just a day to dedicate your love for that person that should be every day,” says Vang. “They don’t have to specify a day for it. It could be any day or every day.”
Expressing the love for a significant other can be based on many things, not just on materialistic objects. Maybe instead of a perfectly arranged bouquet of flowers just for this Valentine’s Day, why not a rose every day?
