Christmas time is a okay holiday because you receive all kind of present, but you never receive the one you ask Santa for on the Christmas list you worked so hard on, looking through all the catalogs for that perfect toy and what not.
Can’t forget about Thanks Giving, where we say what we are thankful for and an array of food that we stuff our faces with and watch the older folks watching football. However, that one dish that you have to taste from your aunt is sitting there, and everybody has to get a scoop so we won’t hurt her feelings.
The one holiday that wins hands down is Valentines Day. I say this because this is the one day that everybody is nice to everyone. When strangers open the door for a person and give them a nice big smile. The day when people in their cars let another over and gives a wave. Valentines is that day where the goodness comes out of people and everybody just smiles.
Love is definitely in the air. When children are in grammar school and find that Valentine’s card from that secret admirer, it starts that new relationship. Even for older people if waiting in a Starbucks line and a lady forgets her wallet and a gentleman just pays for her beverage, on Valentines Day that could be the start of a beautiful relationship.
Everybody wins on the day. It gives a reason for dull people to be romantic and spontaneous when they never have been.
There is no nasty food that people have to eat or a present that you never wanted in their life they have to take, it is just the opportunity for people just to think outside of the box in their relationship, or starting to a new one.
I have never experienced a bad Valentines Day even if I didn’t have anyone to spend it with. There have always been good experiences in my past and I always look forward to the next.
So don’t get me wrong, I love my Christmas’s and holidays like that, but there is something makes me feel good and brings love and smiles and new relationships and that is Valentines Day.
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This column would be stronger if it did one thing and had another.
The 'did' is focus on Valentine's Day. The points raised are interesting and could have been expanded. Throwing in two paragraphs about Christmas and Thanksgiving only take away from the main point, though I believe the writer was trying to show contrast.
The 'had' is had it run a full 600 words, not 365, there would have been time to develop a full column.
As it stands, this piece is just beginning to get going and then ends pretty fast.
Perhaps the writer could do a redraft and send it out for review again.
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