If it takes Valentine's Day to show your "intimate companion" that you
love them, you're probably doing it wrong.... Just saying.
Happy Valentine's Day... is it really a day of love?
I once had a 6 year old tell me he "hated Valentaine's Day cuz it was all about love and PINK"
I'm certain as that 6 year old has grew up, Valentine's Day has been fraught with happiness and dispair.
I'm guessing Valentine's Day only HAPPY when you have someone to love and someone who loves you.
Otherwise it's just February 14th. My son, age 26 pointed out that it's a Hallmark Holiday, designed to get people to spend money.... perhaps it is.... so I looked it up on Wikipedia.
Saint Valentines Day was established in 496 AD, by Pope Gealsius. It was meant to celebrate love and affection between 'intimate companions".
In 1969 Pople Paul VI deleted Saint Valentines Day from the Roman calendar. Howver by then it was a fully entrenched as a Hallmark holiday. Those greeting cards we buy and send are known as "Valentines".
While my 26 year old thought it was ONLY a Hallmark Holiday, in reality Valentine's Day started as a religious holiday to CELEBRATE LOVE and has morphed into a Hallmark Holiday.
Whose love do you want to celebrate?
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