Yes folks Valentines day is here...again. Lets bring out the gooey eyed people and bleeding hearts. The history behind this day is a bit interesting. Claudius II banned marriage and Christianity. Claudius believed marriage made the soldiers weak because many hesitated in leaving their families. Claudius also believed he should be the one true god to be worshiped.
As you can imagine Valentine was a saint at the time and disagreed with Claudius. He performed marriages in secret along with sermons. Valentine was caught and sentenced to death. He was beat, stoned and decapitated. His story is not so tragic. Whilst he was jailed he fell in love with the jailer's daughter. His final letter to her was signed with the connotation "From your Valentine". He was killed on February 14th so in turn we celebrate the ideals Valentine stood for, we celebrate love.
I don't believe it's a bad thing to rejoice about. My issue with Valentine's day as with many other holidays is the over play on the simple idea. Things are blown out of proportion for one day. If you don't get a Valentine you feel insufficient as a human being. It's a day where chance and fate seem to be amplified but only because we all have a desire how ever small it is that someone will take a chance. Valentines day becomes a lie of everything Valentine fought to provide for the common man.
RESOURCES
http://www.lhmint.org/valentines/story.htm
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