Valentine’s Day

Valentines day is so overrated And over-hyped A lot of raft run around frothing, proclaiming their have sex and pledging their eternal every last(predicate)egiance to championness another(prenominal). Although it means polar things to different people, many use this day for all the wrong reasons. I. e. to try out off, get free stuff, free meals etc-Etc. Ha. People even go as far as finding dates just for that one day. Crazy right? I know When its about to be that time of the month everyplace is lit up with red stuffI personally think its another way for businesses to get a lot of extra funds out our pockets. If someone truly cared about you, I think youd hear it more a good deal than once. I mean the extra-large teddy bears, flowers, and all the excess coffee (which makes u gain w ogdoad anyway), and all the other stuff which is associated with v/day is cool, scarce why wait for that one day to show your spouse how oft really you care about them? Some People definitely put much emphasis on it Why not do it all the timeI personally think thats all part of being in a relationship. Making your significant other feel love and appreciated all the time. This should be a PRIORITY of yours Not just on that one day called VALENTINES DAY I think it all depends on the individuals choice. If you are in favor of doing something special on Valentines twenty-four hours, go ahead and do it. If you feel that its not your shape of coffee, so be it. Spending all the excess $money$ isnt the meaning of love its the little things along with the thoughtfulnessValentines DayEach year in America, Canada, United Kingdom, Mexico and Australia billions of people celebrate Saint Valentines Day. 85% of Valentines day purchases are made by women, 1 billion valentines day cards are sent out each year and Valentines day is the second largest card sending holiday of the year, the first being Christmas. Today I will share with you the history of Valentines Day and the legend of Saint Valentine. There are three different stories as to how Valentines Day became a holiday, but they all pull in the same thing in common, which is Saint Valentine.February has always been a month of fantasy and history. The roots of this holiday are based on the Christian and ancient Roman tradition. The roman-catholic church recognizes at least three different paragons, saint valentine and saint valentines are the two most familiar. The first legend says that Saint Valentine was priest who served in the third century in Rome. The emperor at that time was emperor butterfly Claudius, and he believed that the single men made better soldiers in his army, so he banned all marriages for young men at that time.Saint Valentine perceive this as an injustice was still willing to perform marriages in secret for young lovers. When Valentines secret was discovered, the legend says he was sentenced to death. The second legend suggests that Valentine may have been killed for helping Chri stians escape Roman prisons. Many Christians that were kept in these prisons were kept by a higher being and were tortured to death. The third story severalises us that Valentine sent the very first valentine from prison.The legend says that he fell madly in love with the jailers daughter where he was in prison and right before he was put to death he wrote her a letter and signed it love your valentine. Now I am going to tell you how and why Valentines Day became a tradition and a holiday. By the Middle Ages saint valentine was viewed as a sympathetic, romantic and heroic figure. As a result of this he was considered one of the most popular of all figures in England and France at that time.Valentines death was said to be around two seventy eight A.D. In effort to Christianise the Pagan holiday celebration of Pieria at the Lempira festival, it is said that the celebration of saint valentines burial was moved to the month of February. In ancient Rome February was the official beginn ing of spring and was considered at that time a time of purification. In France in England during the middle ages February fourteenth was the day that the birds began choosing their mates, in like manner around five hundred A. D Pope Gelasius declared February fourteenth, Valentines Day.Valentines DayValentines day is so overrated And over-hyped A lot of people run around frothing, proclaiming their love and pledging their eternal allegiance to one another. Although it means different things to different people, many use this day for all the wrong reasons. I. e. to show off, get free stuff, free meals etc-Etc. Ha. People even go as far as finding dates just for that one day. Crazy right? I know When its about to be that time of the month everywhere is lit up with red stuffI personally think its another way for businesses to get a lot of extra money out our pockets. If someone truly cared about you, I think youd hear it more often than once. I mean the extra-large teddy bears, flow ers, and all the excess chocolate (which makes u gain weight anyway), and all the other stuff which is associated with v/day is cool, but why wait for that one day to show your partner how much really you care about them? Some People definitely put much emphasis on it Why not do it all the timeI personally think thats all part of being in a relationship. Making your significant other feel loved and appreciated all the time. This should be a PRIORITY of yours Not just on that one day called VALENTINES DAY I think it all depends on the individuals choice. If you are in favor of doing something special on Valentines Day, go ahead and do it. If you feel that its not your cup of coffee, so be it. Spending all the excess $money$ isnt the meaning of love its the little things along with the thoughtfulness