Inevitable pain … Valentine’s Day
By: Haley Drumm
February 14th is arguably the most dreaded day of the year for singles. You look around you and you see happy couples everywhere. Many people have the idea of singles moping around all day, sad and gloomy. This stereotype actually isn’t far from true. I set out to interview Northridge’s most eligible bachelor and bachelorette, Gabe Miller (‘18) and Madie Legg (‘19), to uncover how they truly spend Valentine’s Day when unattached.
Now, everyone has his or her own personal reasons to hate Valentine’s Day. Some people hate Valentine’s Day because they are single or because they aren’t getting showered in gifts. Miller, however, has a different view of the worst part of Valentine’s day: “I hate that none of the chocolate is free,” he laments.
Legg, lying in bed with heaps of salt and vinegar chips around her, claims, “I hate having to suffer through all the lovey dovey couples on social media.”
We can’t leave out the undeniable tears of being lonely on Valentine’s day. Miller can often be found curled up with boxes of Girl Scout cookies, crying over things like Die Hard or, “The ASPCA commercials, knowing that a dying animal has someone to be with them but I don’t.” Legg is likely to also be crying over Star Wars or “any romance movie when you see a couple running towards each other in slow motion.”
In the next part of the interviews, I challenged these token singles to choose between chocolate or flowers. Without hesitation, the clear winner for both female and male was chocolate. Legg chose chocolate because, “flowers die, chocolate is a moment on your lips forever on your hips.” Miller, however, chose chocolate because, “eating it represents about five minutes out of the 24 hours that I am not crying.”
Pain and depression are hard emotions to ignore on Valentine’s Day. However, it is okay and maybe even necessary to remain hopeful. For now, Legg says she is okay with staring into the eyes of Nick Jonas (her phone screensaver) while she cries along to his music along with a playlist of sad country songs, hoping one day she will find someone with abs as great as his.
And as for Miller, he will continue locking himself in his car at night, blaring “Country Road” by John Denver or “Praying” by Kesha, hoping one day he will finally be able to turn down the volume, put his car in drive, and drive off to the girl of his dreams.
-Haley Drumm (‘18) is a first-year staff writer for the Viking Vault
By: Haley Drumm
February 14th is arguably the most dreaded day of the year for singles. You look around you and you see happy couples everywhere. Many people have the idea of singles moping around all day, sad and gloomy. This stereotype actually isn’t far from true. I set out to interview Northridge’s most eligible bachelor and bachelorette, Gabe Miller (‘18) and Madie Legg (‘19), to uncover how they truly spend Valentine’s Day when unattached.
Now, everyone has his or her own personal reasons to hate Valentine’s Day. Some people hate Valentine’s Day because they are single or because they aren’t getting showered in gifts. Miller, however, has a different view of the worst part of Valentine’s day: “I hate that none of the chocolate is free,” he laments.
Legg, lying in bed with heaps of salt and vinegar chips around her, claims, “I hate having to suffer through all the lovey dovey couples on social media.”
We can’t leave out the undeniable tears of being lonely on Valentine’s day. Miller can often be found curled up with boxes of Girl Scout cookies, crying over things like Die Hard or, “The ASPCA commercials, knowing that a dying animal has someone to be with them but I don’t.” Legg is likely to also be crying over Star Wars or “any romance movie when you see a couple running towards each other in slow motion.”
In the next part of the interviews, I challenged these token singles to choose between chocolate or flowers. Without hesitation, the clear winner for both female and male was chocolate. Legg chose chocolate because, “flowers die, chocolate is a moment on your lips forever on your hips.” Miller, however, chose chocolate because, “eating it represents about five minutes out of the 24 hours that I am not crying.”
Pain and depression are hard emotions to ignore on Valentine’s Day. However, it is okay and maybe even necessary to remain hopeful. For now, Legg says she is okay with staring into the eyes of Nick Jonas (her phone screensaver) while she cries along to his music along with a playlist of sad country songs, hoping one day she will find someone with abs as great as his.
And as for Miller, he will continue locking himself in his car at night, blaring “Country Road” by John Denver or “Praying” by Kesha, hoping one day he will finally be able to turn down the volume, put his car in drive, and drive off to the girl of his dreams.
-Haley Drumm (‘18) is a first-year staff writer for the Viking Vault