You were even starting to think that getting zapped here somehow had been for the better. Were starting to think. Now you weren’t so sure how much better off you were in Magical Talking Horse Land.
Truth be told, your old life back on Earth actually wasn’t that bad, just monotonous. Every day was indistinguishable from the next. It was clockwork. A repetition of seemingly meaningless events and actions repeated over and over. Why did everything feel so pointless? It’s not like you were some loner with no friends or family. You were pretty close to your friends and family, in fact. So why did an empty feeling of loneliness always gnaw at you when you were with them?
For all the friends you had, and as close as you were to your family, something, well someone felt missing from everything. You remembered all the times you felt lonely even when people who cared about you were with you and suddenly it hit you. It was so obvious that it had been staring you straight in the face this whole time. It was the reason you were cooped up in your house now after all. You were single.
The problem was that you never found that right person you ever wanted to share your life with. Granted you were still young and had a whole life ahead of you, but so many of your friends had found a loving partner at some point, why couldn’t you? All your life you never once really had a romantic relationship once and for some reason it always bothered you more than you felt it should. To make matters worse, there was one holiday dedicated to reminding you that you were alone.
Since coming to Equestria you have become certain that most major holidays have some sort of counterpart they related to back on Earth. They didn’t seem to celebrate the exact same ones however, so you secretly hoped that there was one in particular that didn’t carryover to your new home. Your hope was shattered when you found out that a holiday called Hearts and Hooves Day was the very thing you had been secretly dreading.
Just another screwball life threw at you so you could be miserable again. Maybe the universe did hate you. Considering the day you absolutely despised most of the year back on Earth somehow followed you to Equestria, it’s possible. Valentine’s Day, or “Forever Alone Day” as you dubbed it, had a sister holiday in Equestria called “Hearts and Hooves Day.”
Twilight Sparkle had mentioned it in passing a few weeks ago. In fact, all the ponies you were friends with had brought Hearts and Hooves Day up at some point or another. You distinctly remember the topic having been brought up by Twilight when she asked if you had anything like it back on Earth to which you gave a one word answer. She took the hint and didn’t bring it up again.
That hadn’t stopped your other friends from mentioning it with you, though. It wasn’t like they meant to upset you or anything, but every time somepony brought the day up it only made you realize how alone you still felt in your new life. Yesterday you just decided to lay low in your house all day since you figured your friends were probably off having fun with their dates. Why else would they have been talking about today so much the weeks prior? Probably excitement.
Whatever the reason, they were out probably on dates while you stayed inside your house doing… nothing? Come to think of it, you never planned an activity to keep yourself occupied today. Apparently brooding doesn’t kill time to well.
You didn’t even have work today since the Cakes had given you off because they assumed you would want to spend time with your special “somepony” on Hearts and Hooves Day. It was good-natured enough, but it only made you more depressed when they reminded you about Hearts and Hooves Day and you being single. You still took the day off deciding you could try to get through the day in your house without having to see other couples blissfully in love.
So now what? You didn’t feel like working in a place where tons of couples would be streaming in and out, so it wasn’t an option to go and tell the Cakes you actually wanted to come in today. See if somepony wants to hang out? All your friends are probably busy with preparations for later this afternoon with their dates. Wait a minute, did they even have dates? Sure they were talking about today an awful lot and even asking you about your “plans,” but they never explicitly mentioned having dates.
No. There’s no way they're spending today alone. The only trouble they probably had was choosing from the ponies lining up for a chance to be with them. Seriously, if they were human you totally would have asked one out by now. Heck, you probably would have asked a few ponies out by now if they were human. The problem was they weren't and you were a big hairless ape in a land of talking horses.
Far as you saw things, however low your chances were on Earth of finding someone, they had gone negative once you arrived in Equestria. After all, you probably looked like some sort of big hairless ape to them. To be fair, they looked like cartoon horses meant to be on a show for little girls to you, but over time you have managed to connect to them more as “people” than anything.
That being said, you weren’t sure how one of them would react if you asked one out. It was probably safer to just stay friends than risk turning the town against you, or at the least, making things awkward. You sighed and got off your couch deciding to go for a walk to the library and ask Twilight for a book. That would give you something to do at least.
Getting up from your couch and walking to the door you wondered if it was Valentine's Day on Earth. All you knew was that it was just the beginning of Hearts and Hooves Day in Equestria. It was also still fairly early in the morning, so you just hoped you wouldn’t pass by too many couples on your way out.