Valentine's Day Post Mortem

I actually was thinking about this yesterday, but decided that I wanted to wait to post. Today's good, though.

Why is Valentine's Day wrought with pink and red? When I see so much pink and red I feel my face getting hot as if the stove burner was left on and I was hovering near it. When I think of pink and red I think of heat, fire, blood, and death. I think of people burning alive as flesh gets cooked and charred. Is this really how a person wants to think of Valentine's Day?

Yeah, I didn't think so.

It's supposed to remind you of love.
Okay. But it doesn't. What connection does pink/red have with love? I'll tell you... it has none. Someone started it, and someone else kept it going. Just like love and hearts. There's no connection between love and a heart. The physical and biological evidences from the emotion labeled "love" manifests itself many times as a sensation in the chest, where the heart is. I hear it told that long ago (probably with the ancient Greeks and important thinkers of human history) that this was taken as evidence that love originates from a person's heart (since modern medical discoveries of endorphins and brain functions haven't been made yet). It was a misguided and mistaken association perpetuated through ignorance. For all I know the pink/red association with love and Valentine's Day was arbitrary.

Girls like pink, and it's about wooing the girls and being romantic.
Posh. Girls should be wooed as a normal part of the dating process (although that's not to say it stops there) and romance should exist throughout the life of a love relationship. I don't need an excuse to enjoy romance, just a girlfriend/wife. I even hear it said that the unexpected acts of love can be more meaningful... like a random breakfast in bed or something. Besides, not all girls like pink and/or red. What am I supposed to do? Pick out all of the pink and red candies from the box and give those girls the rest? I'm not about to give my girl a used dessert or candy for Valentine's Day.

Then what do YOU want to do about it?
Nothing. I just don't like being inundated with so much pink and red.

Then why did you bring it up?
Because it's blog content. Duh. There's no point to it. I'm just expressing my dislike for so much pink and red. I'm throwing out the question of how pink and red got associated with Valentine's Day. I'm not trying to change the world here or anything. I don't want to DO anything about it except learn how pink and red got so prevalent when it comes to Valentine's Day.

As a parting thought, I don't claim to be absolved from my own ignornace of anything.