“Let us get this straight. No one really likes you, you have something someone is interested in, and therefore find it bearable to tolerate your annoying habits. Not just you, all of you”, the most interesting line Jackie’s father has used in his class of 5th grade students a week before valentines. He is a single father with whom got lost the battle 5 years ago and ended up getting stuck to take full custody of the child.

Jackie’s mother tried her best. She drank in the morning, got wasted just after breakfast, and pukes on leftovers for dinner. This is how she was able to avoid getting custody of Jackie.

Jackie couldn’t care less anymore, but thought his father cared about him all along, otherwise, he should have done the same thing his mom did.

What is Jackie’s father’s name you may ask? Sorry for not saying, it is just this is a fictional short story and thought names shouldn’t matter, let’s call him Dave.

Dave is not well liked by Jackie’s class. In fact, after today’s incident, Dave is not well liked by the whole town. He has just ruined valentines’ day for everyone and Sex-Ed class isn’t for a couple of years. It will now cause depression, and annoying questions, such as, “so dad, what was the real reason you married mom? What about her were you interested in?”, will not easily fade away. This question is also being asked by wives to husbands, and children to parents.

This chaos Dave has caused for opening such a logical point when he should have kept his mouth shut. Should it really matter? It might, given that no one can figure out how they ended up marrying a monster during the 7 year itch of marital affairs.

This question has also raised individuals to start thinking, “How in the world did I end up with my partner? What was I thinking?”, paying for sex made more economic and emotional sense.

But this is it, this is the point, Dave brought out what people have been thinking all along. All these little minds sought interest in the other for something after all. Could the world be so naïve to believe in true love?

Two weeks later, the divorce rate goes up, and kids are still confused. Alcohol had to be banned to make sure no one makes a slip up on telling kids that their parents were interested in sex, which brought the attraction, and that they all merely existed because unprotected sex always feels a lot better than using rubber. Always.

This town needs a superhero to save them from being grim and loveless. Since superheroes do not seem to have tact and diplomacy in discussing their points, aside from the fact that you can hardly find any credibility in the information dispersed to you by a person whose underwear is showing outside their pants, they might just need a rational person to explain things to them.

It is true isn’t it? The cycle starts off with attraction, where one finds something interesting about the other, and then the problem arises, what is love, really?

“We have to acknowledge the existence of the person, and develop our existence in their minds as well. The most important value we have to learn is the idea of completing each other. Through the use of this idea, and sharing common goals, do we find oneness in each other. This oneness creates a mirror and complements.

As time passes, with things going on the track of common goal, do we further understand and appreciate the other person. This appreciation gives the person a story that becomes our memory, and therefore, our attachment. This story also puts greater value to the other person, to the point they go beyond us. For some, it can happen in a short time period, for others, it may never happen.

To which do we realize that it is all about the other person after all, and with this other person, our happiness now becomes ultimate.”

The rational man gave a good speech, the speech was so good that Dave got convinced, and used this to court new divorcees in town during valentines. Dave’s newfound idea of “love” got him lucky that night and might also mean Jackie might have a mom who is not an alcoholic.
Jackie couldn’t care less though. One of his teachers got to school drunk from a bad divorce that he spilled the beans on sex-ed to 5th graders a little earlier than the supposed schedule. All Jackie wants for Valentines does not seem to be a little greeting card, but sex.

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