The upcoming Valentine’s Day is bringing new sweethearts together. Whoever you are celebrating this season with will inevitably adore these happy times with you.

For those celebrating by themselves, the festivities all seem rather pointless. All the gross heart-shaped phenomenons and hoopla over such a silly holiday. Yet, this gala is a convivial time all across the world.

Valentine’s Day is a festive, jovial period that can be used for many different kinds of celebration. Though it seems to be an bunch of uncalled-for hullabaloo, it’s a date for society to love and be loved.

It gives couples and families an excuse to show their affection. It’s a day specifically designed to spread love.

Valentine’s Day could cause us agony over our lost loved ones. We acknowledge the vacancies in life. The places in our hearts that should be filled by those we’ve lost or those who should love us.

This holiday can’t get me down. Everything I need is available — my loved ones and reasons to show love. Luckily, this Valentine’s Day might be the best yet.

I wish you all a fantastic Valentine’s. Love is worth celebrating in all its many forms. It’s a hoopla to be admired. Happy Valentine’s Day.

Annie Blakeley is an eighth-grader at Hamlet Middle School, a band and chorus student and a member of First United Methodist Church in Hamlet.

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Annie Blakeley

Contributing Columnist