Don't get me wrong I do like Valentine's day for a few reasons but none of them being the same reasons as most people.
Here's a bit of history for you. In ancient Rome, Emperor Claudius the second also known as Claudius the cruel, banned all marriages because he wanted his soldiers to concentrate on war but there was one priest who was known as Valentine and he secretly married everyone anyway because he believed in love. Claudius found out about the secret marriages and so he threw Valentine in jail. While he was in jail, he became friends with the jailer's daughter and so on the day of his execution (February 14th) he left a note for her and on the note it said 'Farewell from your Valentine' and that is the history of how Valentine's day came about.
As usual, we have made something wonderful into something only partly wonderful. We did it with Christmas and Easter and of course ended up doing it with Valentine's day too. We make Christian times of celebration into holidays where we can stuff our faces with junk food and buy each other gifts and what not. Don't get me wrong, I love those things it's just that I'd rather we did it for the right reasons. In actual celebration of the events rather than just greed but that way, it would make Christians look really bad in the eyes of non believers.
If you love someone, you don't need a day to prove that to them. Buy them gifts and tell them that you love them because you feel like it! Not because of some stupid money making holiday.
I like February the 14th because of seeing how much people love one another. I'm currently single so I really don't care about the gifts and cards. Looking at Facebook today I saw several messages of love and it just proves to the more bitter people amongst us that it does actually exist and love is in no way a myth. I'll agree that some people mistake love with lust and will tell each other that they love each other after a few weeks of going out- that's ridiculous! Well, it's ridiculous if they've not known each other for that long. A lad once told me that he loved me and he'd known me for about a month and barely spoken to me. He didn't have a clue what I liked, what my interests were etc. That is lust, not love. Love is knowing someone inside and out, his and her towels, lets grow old together, head over heels, full on L O V E (Yes that last bit is a quote from how to lose a guy in 10 days). Lust is in 2 words, seeing and wanting.
Anyway the point is, by all means celebrate Valentine's day but not for the wrong reasons! Just because it's Valentine's day doesn't mean that you HAVE to go out and buy your partners something. Do it because you want to, not because you have to. And don't just do it on those special occasions, do it when you just feel like buying them something nice because they're worth it. By that I don't mean some sort of Loreal product :P
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