Your alarm goes off, and for the first ten seconds after waking up, you’re excited because it’s Friday.
Suddenly, it dawns on you: today is Valentine’s Day. And you’re single (as usual).
You take a few minutes to compose yourself and get yourself out of bed. Suddenly, you feel empowered. You aren’t even upset anymore. You’re a strong, single woman. You don’t need a date for Valentine’s Day!
You leave your room and head to class. You don’t even get to leave the building before seeing PDA.
You see your friend and her boyfriend. She gently reminds you why you hate this holiday by asking “Oh, so you’re not dating anyone?”
Your day gets progressively worse when you get to the class with that beautiful boy you’ve been drooling over all semester. Once you see him, you imagine what your life would be like if he would finally just acknowledge you.
Despite your heart’s greatest desires, he continues to look right through you. Your emotional stability has disappeared entirely.
Once you finish class for the day, you head back to your dorm. You receive texts for your fellow single ladies in the group chat. They start proposing plans the evening.
You don’t feel up to contributing to the conversation. The only thing on your mind right now is (what else?) food.
The girls agree to discuss the evening’s plans over a bite to eat. Of course, Valentine’s Day is your cheat day, so what better to eat than your favorite food?
Now that you’ve eaten, you have a much brighter outlook on the evening. Even better, your guy friends invited you and your girls to a party!
You all head back to your room and start getting ready. You put on your favorite top and even take the time to do your hair and makeup.
You get to the party and you’re surrounded by rude, single guys.
You decide to stick with your girls, but you’re sad because it seems that everyone else has someone to dance with.
Within the hour, things take a turn for the worse. You don’t know if it’s because of what day it is or if it’s because you’ve had just a little too much to drink. Either way, you aren’t happy. At all. You start getting emotional with your friends.
But they do what friends do best and manage to cheer you up quickly.
You’ve calmed down, but you’ve had enough partying for one night and want to go home.
You and your friends decide to head back to your room. On the walk back, you all decide to call and order food.
The food comes, and you and your friends spend the next hour eating and laughing together. But it’s starting to get late and you’re ready for bed.
You wake up surrounded by your two favorite things: food and your best friends. On Saturday, you decide that Valentine’s Day isn’t that bad after all.