As January comes to an end, the worst month of the year makes its rounds. February veers its ugly head, haunting people free of relationships, as well as couples. It’s time to recount the reasons why this month sucks.
One of the reasons February is the worst month of the year is because of the terrible weather. Maybe it’s the fact that we, as a publication, are set in Colorado, but February weather is genuinely just the ugliest thing in the world. There are no fun colors like the fall, and there is rarely fresh snow, just the stubborn, leftover slush and thick ice from January. With that, outside temperatures are so cold that you have to wear jackets and layer up, but as soon as you reach the indoors, you have to strip down to avoid having a heat stroke. With that, you’re left to carry around your jackets and leftover layers, which can ruin a once put-together outfit.
The next issue for February is Valentine’s Day… being single on Valentine’s Day is already an awful experience, but most years it’s on a weekday, so you have to walk around your school, workplace and general public, watching some couples get way too comfortable with PDA. This is not only a problem for single people, but most sensible couples are also uncomfortable with seeing this.
The commercialization of Valentine’s Day takes what should be a daily act, celebrating love, and squeezes the pennies out of the pockets of couples all around the world. Expensive chocolate boxes and elaborate bouquets, all that will be worthless in the weeks following. You can say that about flowers and chocolates in general, though. If you’re going to get your partner something, get them something that relates to their interests, show them you’ve been listening, and you care about what they have to say. Or if you’re broke like most high schoolers are, you can just spend time with them, just if you’re going to go in public, please be tame. Everyone will thank you for it.
For being the shortest month of the year, you would think it would go by really fast, but nope. Out of every month of the year, February just drags on and on and on. It’s probably the fact that most people are just counting down the days till it’s over. And also, the fact that it gets an extra day every four years? If the calendar were split into 13 months, every month would get 28 days, which overall would make February feel not as bad if every month were just as short. With that change, you get 13 months that all start on a Sunday and end on a Saturday with a total of four seven-day-long weeks.
The only positive thing that February has going for it is Black History Month. Besides that, Groundhog Day is the only other event in February worth acknowledging, and most people couldn’t care less about it.
