Sexless near the City...and on Valentine's Day.

Valentines day... The holiday everyone dreads, not just the single ones. Couples dread it because of that haunting thought of what gushy gift they have to buy floats around their head once February 1st hits. Or for the ones who aren't so prepared, its dreaded because they simply forgot it was even V-day to begin with.

It may seem pretty transparent why single people, like me, loathe Valentines Day. It’s the annoying couples who fake love each other for a day just for an Instagram post. It’s the Snapchat stories of roses with lovey-dovey captions, the dinner pictures at fancy restaurants and even the girl walking down the street next to you saying “Happy Valentines Day, baby!” over the phone to her boyfriend that leaves you saying “Bah Humbug”. They all remind you how single you really are. No ones posting about how much they love you, no ones sending flowers to your dorm room and there’s definitely no one taking you on a romantic dinner in the city.

Since we all know what obnoxious things couples are doing on Valentines Day, what are the single people doing?

No...they're not sitting in front of a TV with takeout in baggy sweatpants (even though there is absolutely NOTHING wrong with that). We’re with our friends. The people who see us everyday, know all of our problems and still stick around to help us despite of them. Whether it's over a glass of wine, or a bong and we sit there. We talk about past Valentine’s day nightmares, making fun of couples that actually hate each other, and the guy who you just saw on Tinder who's now making an "I love you" post so his oblivious girlfriend and remember that Valentines Day isn't quite so bad after all. Our best friends remind us why it never worked out with past Valentines, and how much happier we are without them. They remind us that they’ve been there before the guy, and they’re right there next you when he’s gone. They remind us of our self worth, and that one day the right guy will come around for us, and if someone who knows us as well as our besties do, that has to be the truth.

So, although we have annoying couples to remind us that we’re single, we have our best friends who remind us that we’re not as alone as we may think we are. Like Carrie Bradshaw once said: “Maybe our girlfriends are are our soulmates and guys are just people to have fun with.”