Love everyone, everything

Month of Valentine's

By : Aparna Das                                                    Date : 31.1.2018

Love is in the air . Me, my family, my friends and all across the globe, have started planning what will be doing on the big day as Valentine’s Day. Here my question is why every year, on a particular day in the month of February, we all are sudden start feeling romantic! Especially the ones, why not everyone and everything?. Added that, I have another thing on my mind, Valentine’s day should be renamed as ‘Global Bravery Day for Singles’, looking at the amount of Singles trying to make this day a tad bit ‘normal’ by making it romantic. Lovey-dovey, hearts, roses, chocolates, selfie,  red red everywhere. And the middle of it single people have a lot of worry in this day’s! They pray to god, when the day would passed! To the folks, I would suggest 1^st April as the new Valentine’s Day from this year . At least in that case, if the girl or boy rejects someone  in public, on their beautyfly face, they can save some pride by saying ‘April Fool’! Having so much fun, let’s discuss the serious issue. Why a particular day we all celebrate as Love Day ? This day is celebrated in the memory of St. Valentine’. But who was this guy? And what did he do, to mark this day ‘Globally’ as the day of love? Well, people have their own set of theories to believe in. St Valentine’s identity has been a rather confusing subject. There are several accounts of who St Valentine really was. One account says that he was a martyred priest in the Roman Empire during the third century, beheaded for aiding persecuted Christians and helping couples to wed during the reign of Claudius II. The emperor had banned marriages due to the belief that married men make weak soldiers and St Valentine defied him by helping lovers get married. According to another account, he was a catholic bishop of Terni imprisoned and martyred by Claudius II for converting people to Christianity. There’s about Valentine’s Day is many things, but the exact meaning and effect of it can vary from individual to individual. Some peoples thinks that Valentine’s Day largely  like an excuse for stores to sell a lot of products after the post-Christmas lull. It falls in a period that would otherwise lack any sort of consumer holidays. Some people thinks Valentine’s Day as an opportunity. It is an opportunity to show that special someone how much we care about them. It can be the occasion to go for the boy/girl you’ve been too shy to ask out for the past few months. It can be a time of happiness and gratefulness for the loved ones in our life. Simultaneously Valentine’s Day could be a time when people feel forced to do things for loved ones, which is problematic to begin with. It can also lead to a time of loneliness and depression for the singles . Keep everything in mind,  my opinion is, if we really want to remember Saint  Valentine who has sacrificed his own life for love, then we will remember that special person on 14’th February and keep promise and bond with love to everyone.