Flower Strategy for Valentines Day
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This year I will vary my flower strategy for Valentines day, possibly from every other male to have ever existed.
On some other years I have given flowers on Valentines day itself. This is kind of limiting in that there is no obvious symmetrical response. If somebody gave you flowers the week after valentines day that you gave them flowers on, it would be a kind of me-too gesture and perhaps a bit creepy. Valentines is about one-shot declaration, as far as I can tell.
But what if I give flowers the weekend before Valentines day, thus creating a negative space for socially acceptable symmetrical flower giving. Brilliant I say!
How are two single people meant to treat each other as equals with such one sided cultural practices such as Valentines day? The single receiver will be either surprised or expecting; in a passive role.
Such lack of symmetry must surely force imbalance into fledgling relationships, an imbalance imposed on a substance that is the very definition of fleeting.
1 comments:
Perhaps that's not the point of it though. Perhaps the very beauty of it is that there is no need or expectation of reciprocation. That makes it a generous/brave action.
Maybe the Metro Man wants flowers of his own?
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