The way we celebrate
As soon as February starts, the whole world goes Red. Red balloons all over the restaurants, stores and malls. Red dresses on the display dummies, red chocolates, red roses , red teddies and red wine. At around my early teens, when I first fell in love with a boy, I started fantasizing romantic ideas and moments. I started day dreaming about how falling in love would feel like and i clearly remember that a huge part of my expectations was that i would get proposed to; specifically on valentines day with a bunch of red roses, chocolates , teddies and I would be wearing an elegant red dress like those displayed in the stores. I was so fixated on these ideas of romance that I wanted to grow up quickly so that I could fit into these ideas of red and have the perfect romantic valentines day. But, as it turns out, falling in love is not all fun and gifts, its crappy and its definitely not all these varieties of red. As it turns out, this is not what valentines day is about either. These