In the month of February, people celebrate their love by sending cards or letters, giving gifts or flowers and going out for a romantic dinner. Everyone who is in a relationship seems happy, and thats what makes most of the single people feel bitter.

IU Southeast has a few bitter souls who roam the campus and would prefer to spend their Valentine’s Day alone.

“I have to work overnight on Friday so I will sleep all day and cuddle up with my wondrous electric blanket and my 10 billion amazing pillows and sleep like all the real valentine thugs do,” Zoe Dyer, undecided freshman, said.

But where does this rooted hate that many single individuals have come from on being single on Valentine’s Day?

“I personally don’t like the holiday because I think you should just surprise your significant other like that on normal days throughout the year,”Michael Webb, nursing senior said. “I don’t like that there’s a day you are suppose to do that.”

Valentine’s Day history is actually somewhat surprising. It dates all the way back to a roman fertility festival they called Lupercalia. Later the church chose mid-february in order to christianize the celebration. Today the world wide holiday has become a major success with an expected 145 million Valentine’s to be sent out in the U.S. this year.

“I believe that Valentine’s Day is just a holiday of either gained affection, misinterpretation, or lost affection. I am a swirled ice cream and candy dessert of all three, currently,” Michael Webb, nursing senior said. “But I hope that everyone is at least happy for this strange, chocolate scattered day.”

But these individuals haven’t always been single on this day. Many have participated in the ritual.

“In elementary school, I found out my crush’s favorite type of flower, bought a whole potted bush of it and sat it on her desk before school started.” Abel said.

Maybe there is some hope for the love-less on Valentines Day after all.