It is forever the second month of the year. Forever the poor relative when it comes to the family of months.
It does not have the beginning of any season like the 21st days of March and June. No cute little mascots like the Easter bunny, or leprechauns, or a plithera of Halloween characters .
How can any month even rival the glory of May as spring flowers begin to bloom..except of course the glorious and grossly overdone month of December which is the ultimate for not one , not two..but three of the biggest religious groups on earth?
None of the grand excitement that comes in June with weddings and the end of school. No days of respect that November enjoys.
By the time February comes people have gotten over the excitement of writing down a new year on forms. By the time February comes people have gotten over the frustration of writing down the new year on forms.
People have pretty much quit just saying the date out loud to verify to themselves that a new year has begun. I usually stop doing that around January 15 of any given year ..well not out loud anyways.
People are just generally glad that the abbreviation is so simple and predictable. FEB. Three letters. Easy Peasy. However, no one ever has called their children Feb.. Oh sure, they call their daughters Jan and April, May, and June..their sons August, but there isn't a Febby in the book.
Apart from Ground Hog day there are very few really BIG celebrations.
Seed pamphlets start coming in the mail in February. Talk about putting salt on the wound. It will still be at least 6 months before any of those seeds that they are peddling will come even close to looking like the pictures in the shiny paged catalogue.
And then there is ....
Valentine's Day :(
Sure its all fine and dandy if you are young, or even old, and in love, to have a day devoted to showing your adoration for your soul mate, your raison d'etre, your gift of love from above..your poopsey doodle, your sweetie poops, your lovey dovey...your..well you get the picture.
Personally, I find Valentine's Day just another day to perpetrate the stereotypical myth that our culture embraces that portrays anyone who isn't paired off in a romantic relationship as being someone who is lacking in some area. I agree they probably are lacking something...lacking having to buy a dozen roses at $100 a pop...lacking having to buy a dinner out for another $50 at least , and THEN they get to be lacking in having to fork over some sort of precious or semi precious jewelled article.
I was single for 28 years ..and never once in those 28 years did I ever enjoy Valentines day or get to celebrate it according to society's rules..no dinner, no chocolates, no roses. Now that I have been married for 30 years nothing has really changed...no dinner, no chocolates, no roses ..no jewels.
And if all this wasn't bad enough, February is 29 days long this year due to it being a Leap Year. This extra day in the shortest month of the year has a tendency to mess with our clocks and digital calendars not to mention confusing our payroll runs. All that is nothing compared to the terror that reigns on that 29th day of February as every Sadie Hawkins Wannabee runs a muck throughout the streets seeking and destroying the freedom of men everywhere.
Yes indeed I wouldn't want to be the month of February for a month of Sundays.
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