For some people, it’s the best day of the year, for others, it’s a day filled with awkwardness and loneliness. One day, hated amongst the “I don’t need a man to make me happy” and loved by the ones who are anticipating to make the lifelong commitment to their significant others. For some, they have to face the reality that maybe it will just end up being them and their cats forever.

It’s Valentines Day. Being a girl, we seem to have high expectations for some prince charming to magically appear on that day, whisk us away in a magic pumpkin carriage and live happily ever after. How would someone not expect that after how the media portrays these scenarios in the movies? Seemingly without fail, Hollywood dishes out a movie that comes out in theatres on Valentine’s Day, all with analogous plots, a girl loves boy, boys loves girl, something bad happens, boy and girl live happily ever after. Sickening to some, and hopeful to others, these movies seem to always do pretty well on V-day.

Last Valentine’s Day, Safe Haven, if you need to know the plot refer to examples one above, made $30 million dollars in the box office. The lovestruck movie releasing this Valentines Day is Endless Love, it features a girl in boy and love but the girls father does not approve of the boy but the two lovers fight for it anyway. The director Shana Feste works with the actors and actresses, Gabriella Wilde, Alex Pettyfer, Bruce Greenwood.The movie is expected to do pretty well in the box office, but some worry that the trailers make it seem a little too dark for a date-night.

Hollywood keeps busting out these chick flicks that set a standard of what people in society think they need to follow. Girls hold such standards on how they believe life is supposed to be, and how relationships are supposed to work. They have no clue that their life is not based on a Nicholas Sparks book and things might not always turn out so perfectly.  That could be the reason that people are so for or so against Valentines Day. It seems that everywhere you go there is chocolate, candy, hearts and love in every corner. It is inescapable at times but it is all because the media plays it up and the movies that come out year after year convince people everywhere that something magical and romantic is supposed to come from the day.

Not to totally bash the holiday, it is always nice to celebrate the ones you love, and remind each other of how much you care.  Without fail my father gets me a teddy bear and chocolate every Valentine’s Day. Like most things in this world though, everything in moderation. Valentines Day is sweet and nice without all the hype and without all the love crazed people with too high expectations that end up just being depressed.

A solution to this problem would be to  just go back to the way they were in elementary school. Everyone got Valentine’s cards, everyone felt special, and everyone got candy. But once those years are gone, the world of love and loneliness creep in and are the reality of holiday based on love. No matter what, Valentine’s day can’t be ignored whether you are a hopeless romantic or you see it as singles awareness day, it’s coming.