Topic: The Valentine’s Day love feast and what it means to you?! (Read 127 times)

In balkans it is only celebrated in the groups of young people, older than 25 doesnt even think about it. It is not celebrated at all. Only if you want to celebrate it with your partner.

History made it look like a day to fine love and by that i mean, mating people like we do animals in our today agricultural practices and today, for many teenagers, its a day to drink, dance and fornicate. Little wonder why the hotels always run out of vacancies on days like this as rooms are even booked before the celebration in even the least hotels before the eventful day. Some have learnt how to take advantage of it in promoting there business and i believe they are they once making the most of it.
The unfortunate part of the situation is that, even kids are picking in and its become just another outing holiday. The Valentine's day has lost its meaning.

For me it's sharing love from everyone, not just your partner it's a feast where you signify and likely show MORE that you love this person.

February is not just for a partner who dates it is also for a family who wants to celebrate and express more.

Plus February is just a way to make it more special than every day from what I see it's no different and it's up to the person itself if she or he wants to make it special with there love ones.

Going through a lot for this thread making an effort, I would like for you to simply make your post simple as possible because from my answer and everyone's it has a simple answer.

You really should not think about it tha much op., valentines as we know it is simply a day to pamper your loved ones; be it a family member, a friend, or your better half. Some even use this day to confess their feelings towards the person they like. It is as simple as that. Of course everyday should be special but there should be a day that you can make something special as something as extra special. This way you can appreciate things even better and avoid being used to the ecstasy of being surprised by your loved one(s).

Hallmark has some sort of e gift cards for this, there are some premium cards and then some free cards that can be sent on here.
https://www.hallmarkecards.com/ecards/ash-wednesday---february-14-npz5548

Not sure why anyone would send these cards to people but yeah that’s the way to monetize things that people don’t even consider holidays.

So yeah, they’ve already got you covered on that.

True, indeed. Hallmark should also think a way to customize cards for Ash Wednesday (as today is) as churchgoers mark it annually.

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On the essence of Valentine? I think it's meaningless to say the least. How do you get people to remember just a day for love? Celebration of love should be like a religion — A way of life. It should be an everyday event. But what happens with February 14 annually is a pronounced act of immorality with motels, hotels and charlets overtly booked with contraceptives and sex enhancing drugs in high sales. I have consistently observed this behaviour around my vicinity over the years. It's a fact that most people are excited by that date because of the immorality they will indulge and not because of any agape love supposedly attributed to it. This (my view) may sound a bit hash, but it's the reality on ground.

And that's why you can treat your love everyday as if it's valentines day. That will add more sweetness to your relationship if you're letting him/her feel that it's like the everyday of living that you live while the others are waiting once every year just to celebrate it.

Anyway, it's how you celebrate and look at it.

Valentine don't have two factors to be categorized because all the definition land in one meaning, the only important of Valentine is togetherness, caring and approval of kindness to anyone who are important to you, irrespective that no one is exempted via love, I think this Valentine is all about how you treat people around you and how we show goodness to our lover once. And besides the Valentine has gone for the year, so I think Valentine add values to peoples life any more.

Valentines day has passed but I'm not really into this nor celebrating it and good thing that my partner isn't also into this. Just go on with the day the usual things we did.

If you're looking for the importance of this day.

Just treat the love of your life everyday as if it's always the best day you had her/him.

Different b/w Valentines Day and say — Easter/ Christmas / etc is that Valentines Days origins are all in corporatism while Easter/Christmas and so on and so forth at least has some piece of religion in it.

But yeah, all holidays have been turned into this massive consumerism events where you spend what you don’t have to impress people you don’t like. Our economy relies on it at every level. If everyone became fiscally responsible overnight then the economy would begin to crash quickly.

Gotta keep this whole machine going.

I feel like we are almost conversing in actual haven't gone through the ideas you both put fort with Valentine's day being an opportunist business strategy to make maximum sales after a period of preparation and a day for young single individuals to find there sole mates as the tradition had carried but then, if you look at the love affair, its what obviously everyone hope to find, a genuine love and so little finds this. Valentine being a one day pass for a secret admirer does it really solve the problem for single men and women out there?
How about the married, engaged and dating individuals, isn't Valentines day for them too?

Because at some point i wondered if those actually providing this services had no love or partner to show love to but then, its isn't obvious that most of them do but they share in the idea of love in generating the income that gives life to their hustle and in turn there relationship. There could be more to this but this is what I've got in my head.

yep hallmark wants year round events to get people en-masse to buy more things. they cant just rely on random birthdays which cant really predict how much bulk they will need month to month. so they instead want to concentrate on making certain events super special to get bulk sales, far beyond the scales birthdays can offer

every 6-8 weeks is a new special occassion.
newyear...  valentines... easter.. mother day(us) independance day.. labour day.. thanks giving

this allows them to have 6-8 weeks to manufacture and prepare the next bi-monthly celebration
there are some other more minor celebrations they are trying to push. but they are not putting in the effort as they like the 6-8 week gapped events to prepare.

that said they didnt invent these events. they just promoted them to the extremes to raise their importance for profit reasons

EG in the Uk . if it wasnt for consumerism. bonfire night would not be a big deal, same for halloween.

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so forget the consumerist promotion stuff
valentines is for single people to find a partner with less consequences that day
if you already have a partner. love them all year round

Cute lil corporate holiday that Hallmark pushed to sell more cards and it stuck.

Not really sure how some people think of this as a holiday to go crazy overboard for, but it is still a nice way to show your love and appreciation for your significant other.

Doesn’t take away from the fact that the origins of Valentines day was a way for a company to make a ton of money, but that also does not take away from the genuine love that is shown during this day. Hope yall have a happy Valentines Day!

some culture see valentines day as not a forced celebration of love.
but as
a day of opening up a discussion of love.
a day non-partners to find partners


put it this way. cultures are moving into a era where admitting you find a female attractive is seen as sexual harassment even with just a single hint/conversation.
however on valentines day it gives ugly people a one day pass and the confidence to admit their crushes without fear of accusation of harassment

EG if 50 guys in a workplace admired a certain woman. and each week they individually picked a week to ask her out on a date. by the end of the year she would be filing sexual harassment in the workplace claims to HR.
however if she received 50 'be my valentines' cards on one day. no sexual harassment claim. and she would just bin the cards she didnt want to respond to.
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its much like the established sentiment that woman can only ask the men for marriage on a leap year day.. valentines day is becoming an era where men can only show their romantic interest in a non-partner, one day a year.

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i feel valentines days purpose is to give single people a special day to find new love without consequence
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it appears the 'dark history' of valentines seems to confirm. its was a 1-3 day where coupling/lust/sexual acts and partnering up was allowed.. where other days of the year only allowed lust/sex to occur after marriage

so yea valentines day is for the single people to have a inconsequential confidence to admit their feelings to a possible future partner

It wasn’t always 24hrs, it’s usually a 3days ritual 72hrs according to history and a bloody one at that meant where women were matched with men along with several rituals of the Lupercalia era with the central view of boosting fertility until the tradition was accompanied by the martyrdom of the Priest St. Valentine from which the celebration gains its name. The legend is interwoven but still portrays love and defy of an Emperor Claudius II Gothicus as he was reported to be wedding wife’s of soldiers secretly, another account has it that he wrote a signed later to the daughter of his prison warder which earned him an execution.
From both accounts, you can see a relentless love and keen desire for romance in St. Valentine’s actions coated in secrecy. This single act has travelled through time gaining world recognition commensurate on the 14th February as it is and has got several meaning and ways to celebrate it.
https://www.npr.org/2011/02/14/133693152/the-dark-origins-of-valentines-day#:~:text=The%20ancient%20Romans%20may%20also,celebration%20of%20St.%20Valentine's%20Day.
https://www.countryliving.com/life/a46353/history-of-valentines-day/

Rising to have the sun shine on my face before other daily routine, I find myself in a society that felt like Christmas once again just with a different aroma and romance in the air. Empty streets and people concerned about getting the first phase of the day done in other to prepare for a much more looked out for phase in the sundown. So it began to feel like a societal pressure that requires everyone who has attained an adult age and isn’t single to make love now. So people begin to lose focus of the activity and then, do it just because others are doing it. One reality of the fact is that, in all the making of fun, there are others making a fortune out of providing the needed services to ensure a fun filled day for couples whose hands are forced by the day.

Now the question comes?
Do you feel forced to make love or demonstrate your affection towards your partner on Valentine’s Day?
Is there really a best way to celebrate this day and of what importance is it really?
What does the Valentine’s Day of our time signifies more?

I’m 100% on romance just that, I think or should I say romance isn’t a one day thing and one day of romance isn’t really special above others. Romance is the feel that comes with it and being forced or motivated by societal pressure is the wrong way to go about it. Days such as this has resulted in unwanted pregnancy especially amongst the youths, having babies they can't feed or train, increased population, it rubs some people's focus and eventually future, defies family planning when the needful isn't done if you understand me. Valentine’s Day remains isn't all about sex no more, it remains a solemn reminder of what love is about and the relentlessness about it even in the most difficult of situations, the scarifies that comes with it, how love defies the greatest of authorities and odds. It’s much more than a 24hr thing and only matured minds would understand. Love is a beautiful thing, don’t get it twisted.

Happy Valentine’s Day/Love feast my friends.