Consumer society

Today is Valentine´s day and all I can say that it has became so cheap. I can not find the true meaning of this day anymore. As much as I´ve seen it today I can tell you how Valentine´s day looks like: People on Facebook who are posting photos where everyone can see what presents they got from their partners. Partners mean people with whom they are in a relationship with but of course they have to keep changing their status every two weeks, nevermind that it is a Valentine´s day!

Moreover, on my opinoin Valentine´s day is nothing about true love anymore, it is about trying to look cool in front of others. All of the marketing tricks like: little hearts, teddy bears, balloons - do we really need it? Why don´t we just go out for a dinner, for a walk, or just do whatever else romantic to celebrate this day? Because we are a consumer society.

Why do I say consumer society? Because lots of poeple just buying things (which they do not need) only because they have the money, they want to look better in front of others, they are trying to hide some kind of lack in their lives. It is such a waste of earth resources. Unfortunately lots of people do not really care about nature for example, about other people who do not even have food to eat, so I can say that these people just do not care about the world they live in. At least they have a lot of new clothes made in Indonesia by little children. Good for them :) I can easily say that Christmas lost the true meaning as well, everyone is like mad going to shops to get presents, presents, presents! A little example, in Lithuania we have a really important day on 1st of November, it is when people put candles on the graves of the people they knew. It is like a gesture to show that they still think and care about them, they still love them. It has always used to be very deep tradition, but gradually over the time it has became more and more different. For example some of the young generation don´t even know what's this special day is all about!, they celebrate Halloween which actually has got nothing to do with 1st of November. Well, I do not want to put that we are brainless, it is nothing about this. I am just wondering why sometimes we are so primitive? We are behaving as a modern society which is full of information about everything, but we do not look like we know something more than for example sales. So is it mean that this information doesn´t reach us? Or are we brainwashed by media, so all we care is buying things? In my opinion the way how people celebrate and understand the meaning of this special occasions it is also the best example to show what society we are living in. Happy Valentine´s day! :)