Valentine's Day: A defense

Today is not a day for one who is "single" to lament on their relationship status. It is not meant as salt in the wound. More important, it is not meaningless. 
It is a day to celebrate love and affection for all. NOT just romantic love, but the love you have for others.
This is the day of the Feast of St. Valentine and here is some "history" that might get your head out of where ever it may be:

In legend that appeared in 1493, St. Valentine of Rome was imprisoned for performing weddings for soldiers forbidden to marry and for ministering for persecuted Christians. It is said that he healed the daughter of his jailer, Asterius, of blindness. A more fantastical ending to this story is that before his execution he wrote a letter signed "Your Valentine" as a final goodbye.

Geoffrey Chaucer and the High Middle Ages are among the first to associate the day with romantic love, expressed by flowers, candy, and cards called Valentines. St. Valentine's keys can be given as an invitation to unlock the giver's heart or to small children to ward off St.Valentine's malady, epilepsy.

Remember this is LEGEND and in any sort, it is where the modern day holiday evolved from. 

Stop feeling sorry for yourself and hating a day of love. Who cares if you don't have a boyfriend, girlfriend, husband, wife, partner, friends with benefits, or what have you to be disgustingly mushy with! Love yourself, be happy with friends, and literally treat it like any other day- maybe with a little more chocolate.