Some say it is nothing just some people made it.some say its
westernization or modernization and some
make it as a day of love-making as parks and public places spots mostly
youngsters.Some purely believe in expressing
their love to their loved ones.some are totally
against like shiv-Sena activists who keep
trying to ban this day.this condition is only in India because of our Cultural
values and traditions of our society.
There should be
nothing like Valentine Day or Valentine Week because there can't only one fixed
date or time only when you have to love somebody or express your feelings.
Actually, this day is
dedicated to pure or true love and not for the purpose of proposing someone or
getting intimate with your loved ones.It's the day which gives you a chance to make someone feels
special as you do on somebody's birthday but that can be for everyone valentine
day is not for everyone, the people who are going to marry or married are most
suited socially because it is not for children.It should not be related to Romance
only because it refers to general 'Love'.
Let's go back to the history
that what actually valentine day is and why people celebrate it.
"The Early Medieval act of either Saint Valentine were
expounded briefly in Legenda Aurea According to that version, St Valentine was
persecuted as a Christian and interrogated by Roman Emperor Claudius II in
person. Claudius was impressed by Valentine and had a discussion with him,
attempting to get him to convert to Roman paganism in order to save his life.
Valentine refused and tried to convert Claudius to Christianity instead.
Because of this, he was executed. Before his execution, he is reported to have
performed a miracle by healing the blind daughter of his jailer.
Since Legenda Aurea still provided no connections whatsoever
with sentimental love, appropriate lore has been embroidered in modern times to
portray Valentine as a priest who refused an unattested law attributed to Roman
Emperor Claudius II, allegedly ordering that young men remain single. The
Emperor supposedly did this to grow his army, believing that married men did
not make for good soldiers. The priest Valentine, however, secretly performed
marriage ceremonies for young men. When Claudius found out about this, he had
Valentine arrested and thrown in jail.
On the evening before Valentine was to be executed, he would
have written the first "valentine" card himself, addressed to a young
girl variously identified as his beloved,as the jailer's daughter whom he had
befriended and healed,or both. It was a note that read "From your
Valentine.
Using the language of the law courts for the rituals of
courtly love, a "High Court of Love" was established in Paris on
Valentine's Day in 1400. The court dealt with love contracts, betrayals, and
violence against women. Judges were selected by women on the basis of a poetry
reading.The earliest surviving valentine is a 15th-century rondeau written by
Charles, Duke of Orleans to his wife.
To-morrow is Saint Valentine's day,
All in the morning betime,
And I a maid at your window,
To be your Valentine.
Then up he rose, and donn'd
his clothes,
And dupp'd the chamber-door;
Let in the maid, that out a maid
Never departed more.
—William Shakespeare, Hamlet, Act IV, Scene 5
The modern cliché Valentine's Day poem can be found in the
collection of English nursery rhymes Gammer Gurton's Garland (1784):
The rose is red, the violet's blue
The honey's sweet, and so are you
Thou are my love and I am thine
I drew thee to my Valentine
The lot was cast and then I drew
And Fortune said it shou'd
be you
This day more cheerfully than ever shine
This day which might inflame thy
self old Valentine.
—John Donne, Epithalamion Vpon
Frederick Count Palatine, and the Lady
Elizabeth married on St. Valentines day
So St.valentine wanted that
marriage should not stop and Love should not be oppressed.But unfortunately, we have not taken the true
meaning of it and made traditions by ourselves.It should not be treated as a
festival and celebrated but the True meaning of Love should be understood and
misconceptions, mistreatments,false traditions should be removed.
Say 'I Love You' to someone only if you really feels from
the heart don't make fun of it and ridicule it.
