Valentine's day is one of the most popular feasts in the world and also the most celebrated, the only feast that is widely celebrated by almost every race, tribe, and religion all over the world.
Most people that celebrate valentine's day don't know the origin or what it stands for and they don't seem to care, what matters to them is to "have fun" with their "lovers" on that day which is why they prefer to call it "lovers day"
It's lovers day quite alright but the love that many people have in mind and celebrate that day isn't the right kind of love, at least not the one that Saint Valentine put in so much of his time and energy to celebrate during his lifetime
Saint Valentine was a Catholic priest during the reign of Emperor Claudius ii. Claudius believed that single men made better soldiers so he outlawed marriage for soldiers, but valentine defied Claudius and secretly wedded lovers in the camp. When Claudius discovered what valentine was doing he had him killed
There are two other Valentines who were also executed by the emperor Claudius and they both also died for love. One of them was the bishop of Terni who was beheaded by the emperor Clausius; the other Valentine was imprisoned for helping Christians escape harsh treatments in prisons, he was eventually imprisoned too. While in prison, his jailer's daughter always came to visit him so they became friends and lovers
Before he died, he wrote a letter to his jailer's daughter and titled it "from your Valentine" which is why people use that expression to date during Valentine's day celebrations
Valentine died for love, according to the stories he gave his all and made sacrifices for those he lived; pure genuine, and unconditional love, that's what Saint Valentine died for. But it baffles me today to see what people celebrate on February 14th, sex
I saw some videos trending on the internet about Valentine's Day preparation, people are sharpening their sex paraphernalia for lovers day celebration. What a pervasive way of thinking about the feast
This goes to show how much people have deviated from what is and are Drifting to what they wish. Love is not all about sex, and sex is not proof of love, when will young people begin to understand and appreciate this fact?
A lot of young teenage girls are deceived by their much older boyfriends and lured into sex all in the name of lovers day as if love depends on sex, that's a wrong orientation that most youngsters have about love, unfortunately
Things are getting out of hand and if we the learned adults don't correct the ills in the society, this feast will turn into the most perverted in the world. We have to teach the little ones around us who have the wrong notion about love that love is not about sex and they don't have to be forced to have sex just to prove their love
Let's teach the world about love the right way so that posterity will judge us fairly. Happy feast of Saint Valentine in advance