Ah—Valentine's Day. Another one of those utterly depressing or fantastically uplifting days.

They say that the suicide rate of Valentine's is the third highest, right behind Christmas and Thanksgiving.

Most people write about how depressing this day can be. For today, I'll try to step aside the cliche and walk another direction.

I'm going to pretend that today is New Year's Eve all over again. No, not for the night-long alcoholic binges (though you can do that if you want). Today is New Year's Eve again so I can make another resolution.

And the resolution is: To get rejected.

Yup. Rejected.

You're sitting there thinking, "What? You're crazy? What a depressing thought."

But whoa, wait a second. Hold those reins and don't let the horse race off just yet. What I'm proposing is to make an extra effort to go out there and meet attractive members of your preferred gender (in my case, female).

And to keep my expectations at the "rejection" level.

How do you do this? Picture this: you're sitting in a coffee shop (or bar or whatever your favorite locale is) and an attractive person comes in. You tell yourself that because you're after rejections, you have to go talk to this attractive person. How can you get rejected if you don't ask in the first place, right?

So you go and talk to this person. And maybe this person rejects you. But what if this person doesn't?

Hey now!

In this situation, you mentally have nothing to lose. You're expecting the worst. And if the worst is what you get—hey, you expected it.

But if the worst is what you don't get, then more power to you!

So this Valentine's, let's all go out and get rejected!

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What are you going to do for this Valentine's Day?