10 Things Young People Like About Valentine’s Day

Valentine’s Day is the day that everyone wants to celebrate for both young and old alike. While this is celebrated mostly by the adults, we’re listing the 10 things that young people like about Valentine’s Day as relayed to us by young people themselves.

1. Receiving Valentine’s gifts
Since it is a day when couples, families and friends alike give and receive gifts from one another, Valentine’s Day is deemed as a special day. Receiving gifts on Valentine’s Day gives a very special feeling since it would represent the love and loyalty of that person to you. According to a friend, she said that Valentine’s Day is a day to prove how important you are to a person’s life. This is where you can see the true value of his or her love on Valentine’s Day.

2. A day to express love
On Valentine’s Day, people express their love to their loved ones through giving of gifts or by celebrating the day together. A friend of said that we could express our love to someone, regardless if it is Valentine’s Day or any other occasion. She also said that it is also influenced by the society nowadays due to the way how people express their love in this age. For those people who are not often expressive, like siblings, Valentine’s Day is a chance for them to express their love to their older or younger siblings.

3. A day to remember how special love is
Remembering how special love is means that you know you are special to someone. It will remind you that you are part of someone that makes him or her whole whether it may be a friend, a family member, or it may be your significant other. A friend once said that love is special because it comes from the heart. Love is being made and given. It is special because it makes oneself happy, however there is the price of pain to be paid and a lesson to be learned with the act of loving.

4. A day for quality time for couples
We know that having quality time is vital in all types of relationships. It matters with family, friends and especially couples. It is also the time for the couples to better know each other because they get to enjoy each other’s company at least for a day.

5. Valentine’s Day is a season of Romantic Movies
During this occasion, romantic movies are known to be relatable with this season. Majority of the couples, surely, will go out to have cinema dates. Movies will surely cater to the kilig factor that many moviegoers want.

6. A day to find a date
A close friend named Mescel said that finding a date does not make you feel lonely or alone on a special occasion like this. A classmate named Angelica said that doing so will make you feel loved back in order to be not bitter and felt left behind with young people their age. Another one said that finding a date makes you feel less envious. So, why delay?

7. Restaurant promos for couples
Are you planning to bring her somewhere romantic but got no idea of a perfect place for it? No more worries. During this special occasion, restaurants grab it as an opportunity to increase their sales and at the same time make couples feel the romantic season even more with their sweet promos. Some even have promotions for those who recently broke up and haven’t moved on with their exes. A restaurant in America named Hooter’s tempts you to fish out a photo of your ex in exchange of free food. No, you don’t have to look at it. A glance can even possibly make you teary! Just tear down his photo and enjoy your free order of boneless wings.

8. One-day break from studies
Who are the ones most delighted with this news? Those are the students who made the school their second home and been dying to unleash themselves from the academic routines. Of course, paper works are not their ideal dates on the 14th of February!

9. Reason to be romantic with someone special
Here’s to the gentlemen who are awardees in crafting surprises for their girl. These are the guys who do not mind the bills and receipts at the end of the day because a genuine smile from her is more than enough for a pay back. But hey, because there’s no stereotyping in love, here’s for the ladies as well, who are not rookies anymore in making their man feel more handsome than those stars in Korean dramas. Give it a try.

10. Reason to feel special
It isn’t Christmas but ‘tis the season to be even more special! No chocolates to bite? No bouquets to hold in your arms? No fingers to intertwine with yours? Get yourself a reminder that love isn’t just about material stuffs and mushy moments of couples out there. You can bloom like a lilac by just receiving sweet thoughts from your family, friends and loved ones! And yet, His love is even much sweeter. Remember that a heart that loves is loved as well.

“To love is to will the good of another, all other affections have their source in this first movement of the human heart toward the good” (CCC1766). (Leandro Luga, Charlyne Pugoy and Ruelyn Castro)