Beautiful jewelry, extravagant roses, expensive chocolates, and six dollar singing greeting cards… Exactly what you think of when you think of St. Valentine’s Day. We celebrate many holidays that may have, perhaps, lost meaning in society. Retailers have focused our advertising around holiday seasons and push the idea that we have to give the best gifts (I’ve Christmas decorations out as early October). Pressures from retailers, and lending services, have given society the impression of the wrong meaning behind holidays with profound meaning.

‘A rumor was spread that I was addicted to heroin, which I wasn’t, but a lot of people treated me differently and questioned me about it.”