Uh oh, It’s the second month of the year (February) and Valentine’s day is around the corner! It is a day which lovers in let each other know about their love, commonly by sending Valentine’s cards, flowers, candy, chocolates and other stuffs that would show their love.
Why do people celebrates Valentine’s day? Well don’t ask me about it, to me it’s another propaganda set by businesses in order to shoot the sales of the above-mentioned items, especially greeting cards and flowers. Celebrating valentine’s day is no more than wasting my time and energy by flushing my hard-earned money down the toilet drain.
I even read in Wikipedia that it is estimated approximately one billion valentine cards are sent each year world wide, making the day the second largest card-sending holiday of the year behind Christmas. The association also estimates that women purchase approximately 85 percent of all valentines.
While in my believe that Valentine’s day is just another commercial propaganda, the origin of Valentine’s Day is somewhat vague at best with several stories on why people celebrate the day in the middle of February. Several sources includes : 1,2,3.
Personally, I think Valentine’s day is overrated and just another great ploy to get us to fork our money out unnecessarily for cards and candy, you don’t need a specific day to show your love to your lover, because if you do, then something is awfully wrong with you.
p/s: I only learned that Valentine’s day is celebrated on 14th of February about a couple of hours ago, yeah sounds unimportant isn’t it?
